As an Associate Director of Project Management for AI, you will lead the end-to-end management of technical AI projects, ensuring successful delivery by overseeing scope, timeline, resources, and budgets. You will collaborate with product managers, engineers, data scientists, and client teams to translate business needs into actionable plans, driving operational excellence and delivering business value through innovative AI solutions. This role involves standardizing processes, mitigating risks, and fostering continuous improvement within the AI team.

Must Have

• Lead end-to-end management of technical AI projects, overseeing scope, timeline, resources, and budgets.
• Drive standardization and optimized ways of working across the agency.
• Partner with product managers, engineers, data scientists, and client teams to translate business needs into project plans.
• Serve as connective tissue between creative, strategy, technical, and client stakeholders.
• Identify, assess, and mitigate risks; proactively resolve project roadblocks.
• Contribute to development and operationalization of new AI features, products, and solutions.
• Ensure projects follow best practices in agile and traditional project management methodologies.
• Document and communicate progress, decisions, and changes to stakeholders.
• Support knowledge management efforts and promote continuous improvement.
• 6+ years of project or program management experience in digital, technology, or agency.
• 2+ years managing technical, data-driven, or AI-related projects.
• Proven ability to manage projects including planning, tracking, resourcing, budgeting, and risk identification.
• Understanding of digital marketing, AI, software development lifecycle, and agile methodologies.
• Comfortable communicating technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Proven ability to manage complex cross-functional projects and lead multidisciplinary teams.
• Excellent organizational, written, and verbal communication skills.
• Experience with risk management, resource planning, and workflow optimization.
• Strong client-facing and stakeholder management abilities.
• Familiarity with AI prompting and generative AI technologies.

Good to Have

• Demonstrate grit and extreme ownership.
• Exude positivity.
• Aren’t afraid to share your ideas.
• Meet problems head-on and view them as opportunities.
• Are self-reliant and motivated.
• Communicate fearlessly.
• Thrive in fast-paced, evolving environments.
• Bridge technical and non-technical teams with ease.

Perks & Benefits

• Medical coverage
• Dental coverage
• Vision coverage
• Disability benefits
• 401K
• Parental and family care leave
• Family forming assistance
• Tuition reimbursement
• Flexible time off

Associate Director, Project Management of AI

Company description

Digitas is the Networked Experience Agency, built on the vision that we create magnetic experiences that earn the right for brands to exist in human networks. Today, and tomorrow. We deliver Networked Experiences by leveraging comprehensive data, technology, creative, media and strategy capabilities. Digitas delivers ambitious outcomes via unique solutions that include Creative Experiences, Integrated Media, Addressable Relationships, Social Marketing and Total Commerce. Celebrated by AdAge as Data and Insights Agency of the Year, U.S Campaign’s Brand Experience Agency of the Year, Media Network of the Year and celebrated by Forrester and Gartner, Digitas serves the world’s leading brands through a global network comprised of more than 5,500 employees across over 65 offices in 43 countries.

The Digitas culture is made up of fearless, inventive and generous Unicorns of all kinds.

Overview

Our AI team sits at the cutting edge of digital transformation, powering new solutions with data and technology, and our AI Project Managers enable and execute great work in the smartest way possible. We are passionate about transforming ideas into results as we constantly negotiate, organize, and understand the ever-changing landscape of digital marketing and technology.

As an Associate Director of Project Management, you’ll combine best-in-class project management skills with a strong technical understanding of AI products and platforms. You’ll collaborate across cross-functional teams—managing complex, multi-disciplinary projects from ideation through delivery, driving operational excellence and ensuring that innovative AI solutions deliver business value for our clients and teams. Sound like you? Read on.

Responsibilities

What You’ll Do

• Lead the end-to-end management of technical AI projects, overseeing scope, timeline, resources, and budgets to ensure successful delivery.
• Drive standardization, change, and optimized ways of working across the agency.
• Partner with product managers, engineers, data scientists, and client teams to translate business needs into actionable project plans and milestones.
• Serve as the connective tissue between creative, strategy, technical, and client stakeholders—driving alignment, transparency, and collaboration throughout project lifecycles.
• Identify, assess, and mitigate risks; proactively resolve project roadblocks and issues.
• Contribute to the development and operationalization of new AI features, products, and solutions in partnership with the Digital Product Management team.
• Ensure projects follow best practices in both agile and traditional project management methodologies.
• Document and communicate progress, decisions, and changes to stakeholders at all levels.
• Support knowledge management efforts by capturing and sharing learnings, process improvements, and best practices across the AI team.
• Promote a culture of continuous improvement, innovation, and operational excellence.

Day-to-Day, your role includes:

• Creating and tracking detailed project plans
• Managing team workflows and resources
• Streamlining processes to ensure efficient, high-quality delivery across concurrent AI initiatives.
• Facilitating project meetings, workshops, and cross-team communication.
• Monitoring technical project deliverables for quality and alignment to business goals.
• Supporting the integration and adoption of new AI tools, platforms, and processes across teams.
• Effectively handling risk, escalating when needed and assisting the team in resolution

Qualifications

We’re looking for strong, impactful work experience, which typically includes:

• A four-year degree
• 6+ years of project management or program management experience in a digital, technology, or agency environment.
• 2+ years managing technical, data-driven, or AI-related projects.
• A proven ability to manage projects, including creating project plans, tracking and prioritizing tasks, resourcing and balancing team workloads, managing budgets, identifying risks, driving timelines, creating workflows, and ensuring effective communication and collaboration across teams.
• Demonstrated understanding of digital marketing, AI, software development lifecycle, and agile methodologies.
• Are comfortable communicating technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Proven ability to manage complex cross-functional projects and lead multidisciplinary teams.
• Excellent organizational, written, and verbal communication skills.
• Experience with risk management, resource planning, and workflow optimization.
• Strong client-facing and stakeholder management abilities.
• Familiarity with AI prompting and generative AI technologies.

You are the right person if you:

• Demonstrate grit and extreme ownership
• Exude positivity
• Aren’t afraid to share your ideas
• Meet problems head-on and view them as opportunities
• Are self-reliant and motivated
• Communicate fearlessly
• Thrive in fast-paced, evolving environments
• Bridge technical and non-technical teams with ease

Why Join Us?

You’ll play a pivotal role in shaping the future of digital experiences and AI-powered solutions for Fortune 500 clients, leveraging cutting-edge technology in a collaborative, agency environment.

Additional information

Our Publicis Groupe motto “Viva La Différence” means we’re better together, and we believe that our differences make us stronger. It means we honor and celebrate all identities, across all facets of intersectionality, and it underpins all that we do as an organization. We are focused on fostering belonging and creating equitable & inclusive experiences for all talent.

Publicis Groupe provides robust and inclusive benefit programs and policies to support the evolving and diverse needs of our talent and enable every person to grow and thrive. Our benefits package includes medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401K, as well as parental and family care leave, family forming assistance, tuition reimbursement, and flexible time off.

If you require accommodation or assistance with the application or onboarding process specifically, please contact USMSTACompliance@publicis.com.

Compensation Range: $95,950 - $144,430 annually. This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on the skills, qualifications, and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position, and the Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time. Temporary roles may be eligible to participate in our freelancer/temporary employee medical plan through a third-party benefits administration system once certain criteria have been met. Temporary roles may also qualify for participation in our 401(k) plan after eligibility criteria have been met. For regular roles, the Company will offer medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401k, and paid time off. The Company anticipates the application deadline for this job posting will be 1/15/26.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.