Project Manager, AI – Automation
Duke Careers
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Durham • North Carolina • 🇺🇸 United States
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Mid-LevelSenior
Tech Stack
PMPRPA
About the role
- Plan, organize, and coordinate a portfolio of AI and automation initiatives across HR/payroll, finance, and business processes.
- Maintain the project pipeline, drive scoping and requirements gathering, and ensure that active projects are delivered on time, within scope, and with clear communication to partners.
- Maintain a central portfolio of candidate and active AI/automation projects, including status, priority, owners, and key dates.
- Design and run lightweight intake and prioritization processes for new project requests from HR, finance, and other business units; track 5+ concurrent projects across discovery, design, implementation, and evaluation.
- Develop and maintain formal project plans with timelines, milestones, testing phases, and implementation steps; coordinate kick-offs, define scope and objectives, and clarify success criteria.
- Monitor progress against plan; identify and escalate risks, issues, and scope changes; propose adjustments to keep projects on track; support end-to-end execution from proof-of-concept through deployment and post-implementation review.
- Schedule, prepare, and facilitate project meetings and working groups (agendas, notes, action items); maintain clear, consistent communication so stakeholders always know status, decisions, and next steps.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in business, information systems, public administration, or a related field; or an equivalent combination of relevant education and/or experience.
- Four or more years of progressively responsible experience managing projects or complex initiatives in a professional setting.
- Demonstrated experience creating and maintaining project plans and timelines; coordinating work across multiple stakeholder groups; leading meetings, documenting decisions, and following up on action items.
- Experience working on projects related to operations, IT systems, data, or process improvement.
- Experience in a higher education or similarly complex, decentralized organization.
- Exposure to AI, automation, analytics, or workflow tools (e.g., RPA, chatbots, low-code/no-code platforms, or enterprise AI tools).
- Experience mapping workflows and supporting end-to-end IT or process transformation projects.
- Project management certification (e.g., PMP, CAPM, Scrum Master) or formal training (preferred but not required).
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Retirement plans
- Paid time off
- Flexible work arrangements
- Professional development
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
project managementrequirements gatheringproject planningworkflow mappingprocess improvementAIautomationanalyticsdata managementstakeholder coordination
Soft skills
communicationorganizationleadershipproblem-solvingfacilitationrisk managementtime managementcollaborationdecision-makingadaptability
Certifications
PMPCAPMScrum Master