AI Project​/Program Manager

Description

Precise Software Solutions Inc. is seeking an AI Project / Program Manager to lead delivery of an enterprise Generative AI engineering program supporting the federal government. You will be the primary day-to-day point of contact for the Government POC, and you will be accountable for schedule, staffing, quality, risk, labor-hour stewardship, and reporting across the full AI system lifecycle.

You will turn a multidisciplinary AI engineering team into predictable, transparent delivery - running Agile cadence, governance checkpoints, and monthly program reviews - while making sure every deliverable is on time, accepted, and audit-ready.

• Must be a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident (green card holder).
• Must reside in the Washington, DC metropolitan area and be able to work on-site at DC Government offices.
• A Government background investigation is required; you must be able to obtain and maintain it.

• Serve as the contract/program manager (or designated alternate) with authority to act on daily operational matters, and as the primary liaison to the federal customer POC and customer leadership.
• Evaluate proposed AI system changes with the Government, providing options, recommendations, level-of-effort and schedule estimates, and implementation impacts.
• Keep contract performance aligned with the Performance Work Statement and the Quality Assurance Surveillance Plan performance standards; route scope changes to the federal customer POC.

• Develop and maintain the Task Order Management Plan with the Lead AI Engineer, including the resource-loaded schedule, staffing plan, milestones, dependencies, and governance checkpoints; re-baseline after any priority change.
• Run the two-week Agile cadence with the technical leads, including sprint retrospectives, burn-up charts, and velocity tracking.
• Maintain project plans, schedules, decision logs, action-item logs, and requirements traceability in Government-approved tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence, SharePoint).

• Deliver weekly task execution reports and Monthly Progress Reports covering accomplishments, risks, deliverable status, labor usage, burn rate, AI operational metrics, and helpdesk trends.
• Develop and maintain the Communications Plan; lead weekly status meetings, Monthly Program Reviews, and risk reviews; and distribute meeting notes and action items.
• Respond to Government data calls and support customer AI use-case inventory and enterprise architecture reporting.

• Maintain the program risk register - including AI-specific risks such as model drift, data quality, model or API deprecation, and security - with owners, triggers, mitigations, and dated contingencies.
• Own the Quality Control Plan and deliverable quality process so that deliverables are accepted.
• Track compliance items such as mandatory training completion, background investigations, and Section 508 conformance on releases.

• Manage staffing plans, onboarding, cross-training, backfills, and turnover; and maintain personnel reports, escalation contacts, and access lists.
• Track labor-hour consumption and burn rate by labor category against the funded ceiling, forecast estimate-at-completion, and give advance warning of potential funding shortfalls.
• Maintain the Government-furnished equipment inventory, and identify required software, cloud AI services, and equipment for Government provisioning.
• Ensure helpdesk coverage and service-level compliance reporting, including coverage during planned absences.

• Quality Control Plan;
  Monthly Progress Reports; weekly Task Execution Reports;
  Help Desk / Support Summary Reports;
  Risk Register;
  Communications Plan; AI Use-Case Inventory updates; and Data Call Responses.

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Systems, Business, or a related scientific/technical discipline and 12+ years of relevant experience.
• 8+ years of experience managing federal IT professional services projects or programs, including life-cycle, budget, cost, schedule, and performance tracking.
• Demonstrated experience managing Agile software delivery teams, including backlog management, sprint cadence, and release planning.
• Experience managing labor-hour or time-and-materials contracts, including burn-rate tracking, funding forecasts, and ceiling management.
• 2+ years of…