Technical Project Manager-UAE National-ONLY

AI/ML Technical Project Manager Product Oriented customer driven delivery - UAEN

Company: Open Innovation AI

About Open Innovation AI

Open Innovation AI is a global technology company that specializes in developing advanced solutions for managing AI workloads. Its flagship product, the Open Innovation Cluster Manager (OICM), orchestrates complex AI tasks efficiently across diverse infrastructures. The platform is hardware-agnostic, optimized for various GPUs and accelerators hardware, and facilitates seamless integration and scalability for enterprise AI applications. Open Innovation AI focuses on optimizing and simplifying AI workload management and making AI technologies accessible to organizations of all sizes. With its innovative solutions, companies can reduce operational costs, accelerate time to value, and maximize their return on investment, ensuring that their AI strategies contribute directly to enhanced business outcomes.

Role Overview

Open Innovation AI is seeking a dedicated and skilled Product-oriented Technical Project Manager with a focus on customer driven projects delivery to lead the development of our AI customer-driven Use cases platforms. This role requires a strong technical background, exceptional customer facing project management skills, and experience working with technical audiences such as developers, data scientists, and IT professionals.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Define Product strategy and roadmaps, aligning with the vision and strategic goals, and driving the execution with key progress updates to executive leadership, customers, and key stakeholders.
2. Lead and manage product-oriented technical projects in a scrum agile configuration, assigning tasks, monitoring performance, and ensuring timely and high-quality delivery of project modules and products features.
3. Manage customer engagement and expectations maintaining clarity on projects objectives, scope and requirements vision, and AI/ML platforms deliverables.
4. Develop detailed project plans, including timelines, milestones, and resource allocation.
5. Identify, assess and manage risks and issues that may impact the project, overseeing the full project lifecycle, from initiation to final customer delivery and support.
6. Ensure the project complies with regulations and quality standards.
7. Coordinate with AI technical teams, specialists, and data scientists for technical guidance, solution implementation, and reviewing AI models technical design and validating their functioning.
8. Coordinate with cross-functional teams to ensure smooth communication, issues resolutions, change management requests, and efficient project delivery.
9. Define and prioritize products features, manage, and maintain the project backlog, translating strategic projects goals into actionable tasks.
10. Ensure project milestones are met on time within the defined scope, quality, time and cost constraints, addressing continuously any bottlenecks.
11. Organize and facilitate training for users of the implemented AI solution.
12. Conduct post-project evaluation with the customer and internal teams to assess the success of the project and identify areas for continuous improvement.
13. Manage and improve project management processes, methodologies, and tools for optimal team performance.

Qualifications:

1. Masters degree in computer science, Engineering, or related fields.
2. Proven experience in technical project management within technology, software development, or AI/ML platforms.
3. Strong understanding of the technical aspects of platform development and project execution.
4. Experience with Agile methodologies, including Scrum, and familiarity with product lifecycle management.
5. Excellent communication, leadership, flexibility, and organizational skills, with the ability to manage multiple complex projects.
6. Strong analytical skills and ability to make data-driven decisions to guide project and product outcomes.
7. Familiarity with AI and ML concepts, as well as the broader technological landscape.
8. Proficiency in Arabic is highly desired.
9. Certification in project management (e.g., SCRUM, PRINCE2, PMP) is a plus.