AI Council Program Manager & PMO Lead
HybridBengaluru, Karnataka, India
Job Summary
Own and run the operational cadence of the client BU AI Council, including scheduling, agenda design, pre-reads, and meeting facilitation logistics. Prepare high-quality materials such as briefing packs, status summaries, and decision papers to executive standard while maintaining a rigorously managed issue log and decision register. Capture, structure, and track AI ideas through the intake and prioritization pipeline, ensuring decisions are communicated and actions are escalated with clear recommendations. Manage stakeholder role clarity across sponsors, members, and working groups, serving as the single point of contact for Council operations. Establish PMO artifacts including plans, RAID logs, and benefits tracking, producing concise executive-ready status reports for BU leadership. Report to the Managing Director with a hybrid schedule of three days per week in the Bengaluru EGL area.
Required Qualifications
- 10+ years of program/project management experience
- substantial time managing executive governance forums, steering committees, or transformation PMOs
- Prior consulting or advisory experience with a Big 4/Big 5 firm (or equivalent tier-one advisory firm)
- Demonstrated ability to prepare board/steering-committee-grade materials: agendas, briefing packs, decision papers, and status reports
- Strong stakeholder management skills at senior manager to CXO level
- comfortable chasing actions across functions with tact and persistence
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- high attention to detail
- strong PowerPoint and Excel skills
- Working knowledge of AI/GenAI concepts sufficient to engage credibly with AI use-case discussions
Desired Qualifications
- Experience running AI/digital transformation governance bodies, innovation councils, or use-case intake/prioritization processes
- Familiarity with AI governance themes: responsible AI, data privacy, risk and compliance considerations in AI adoption
- PMP, PRINCE2, MSP, or SAFe certification
- Experience in financial services or professional services client environments
- Familiarity with collaboration and tracking tooling (Azure DevOps, Jira, Planner, SharePoint, Miro or equivalent)
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