Project Manager, AI Transformation

Curriculum Associates is a company dedicated to transforming education technology with innovative learning programs. They are seeking a Project Manager to drive the coordination and execution of AI transformation initiatives, ensuring projects remain on track and aligned with strategic goals.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with business leaders and AI stakeholders on early-stage project definition — scoping, success criteria, and readiness assessment
• Manage project plans, track milestones, and proactively identify, escalate, and address risks
• Apply CA's Transformation framework to lead process documentation, future-state design, gap analysis, and stakeholder mapping
• Support communications planning, stakeholder engagement tracking, and change management interventions
• Facilitate cross-functional alignment by surfacing interdependencies, synergies, and downstream impacts
• Partner with AI Adoption, transformation, and functional leaders to coordinate planning and execution across AI initiatives
• Establish and maintain centralized tracking of AI initiatives, key decisions, dependencies, milestones, and project learnings
• Translate evolving AI strategy into executable project structures, workstreams, and cross-functional action plans
• Facilitate knowledge capture and synthesis to reduce duplication and improve enterprise visibility into outcomes
• Support AI enablement events, onboarding materials, and adoption campaigns — managing logistics and tracking participation
• Build and maintain initiative-level reporting for leadership: status dashboards, adoption metrics, risk registers, and milestone summaries
• Develop standardized templates, playbooks, and runbooks to ensure consistency and repeatability across AI transformation projects

Requirements:

• 6+ years in transformation, project management, program management, and/or change management — supporting large-scale, cross-functional initiatives
• Track record working across multiple stakeholder groups, including business leaders, functional teams, and executive sponsors
• Experience building project structures, milestone plans, status reporting, and centralized documentation for enterprise initiatives
• High emotional intelligence and ability to manage cross-functional and executive-level stakeholders through complex change
• Strong strategic mindset and business acumen with sound judgment and creative problem-solving
• Familiarity with transformation methodologies, including digital transformation approaches
• Proficiency with project management tools such as Smartsheet, Jira, Confluence, or similar
• Change management experience and familiarity with research-backed frameworks and practices
• Ability to guide executive-level decision-making — facilitating conversations, building consensus, and translating goals into clearly defined initiatives
• Exceptional written, verbal, and presentation communication skills across diverse audiences
• Ability to manage complex, emerging-technology initiatives with many stakeholders, evolving requirements, and cross-functional dependencies
• Experience building centralized tracking, documentation, and knowledge-sharing mechanisms that improve visibility and reuse
• Comfort working across business, technical, and operational teams to support scalable AI execution
• Experience with digital, technology, or AI-related initiatives in a complex organizational environment