Associate Director, AI Model Manager

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KPMG is currently seeking an Associate Director, AI Model Manager to join our Digital Nexus Technology organization. This is a hybrid work opportunity.

Responsibilities:

• Manage the overall delivery of AI-related technology products and releases utilizing agile and other product management methodologies; set tactical plans that align strategic AI/ML model objectives with firm priorities
• Maintain AI model roadmaps, lifecycle processes, governance controls, and feature backlogs, ensuring prioritization based on business outcomes; monitor risks, issues, model performance, regulatory impacts, and overall platform health
• Operate as a key advisor to clients and proactively initiate ideas to improve client centricity; drive and manage shared assignments and large-scale programs, including model-enabling services such as ingestion pipelines, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) frameworks, and production model operations
• Provide leadership and direction to remove obstacles and ensure teams have tools and guidance to execute on programs and products; collaborate with architecture, security, and engineering teams to ensure models meet release-readiness requirements, including testing, validation, and responsible AI criteria
• Enable optimized governance and integrated management of cost, schedule, and effort ensuring on-time, on-budget, and on-value realization; prepare and present executive-level status updates to sponsors and leadership teams
• Interact regularly with delivery partners and department leaders; contribute to departmental strategy and priorities
• Act with integrity, professionalism and personal responsibility to uphold KPMG's respectful and courteous work environment

Qualifications:

• Minimum eight years of recent experience in advanced program or product management, including planning and executing large-scale products and programs; experience with AI/ML model lifecycle management or model-driven platforms is preferred
• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university is required; master's degree from an accredited college or university and PMP certification are preferred
• Experience managing multi-phase, multi-track projects spanning nine to twenty-four months
• Comprehensive knowledge of SDLC, Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe), infrastructure deployment, IT transformation, and industry best practices
• Ability to make high-complexity decisions autonomously
• Exceptional communication, collaboration, negotiation, and influencing skills; ability to motivate teams and drive execution of strategic initiatives
• Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for employment-based visa sponsorship now or in the future; KPMG LLP will not sponsor applicants for U.S. work visa status for this opportunity (no sponsorship is available for H-1B, L-1, TN, O-1, E-3, H-1B1, F-1, J-1, OPT, CPT or any other employment-based visa)

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