Technical Project Manager - Client AI Builds

About the role

Ajaia, an AI implementation consultancy and product studio, is hiring a Technical Project Manager to run delivery on client AI builds from kickoff to a system that works in production. The role is technical with a delivery mandate: you triage requests, keep moving parts organized and call out what will not hold up before a client sees it. You are not the person who decided what to build, but the person who makes sure it gets built on time and on scope.

Key responsibilities

• Build working automations and scripts yourself when that solves the problem faster than a meeting.
• Read code and call out specifically what will break in production.
• Keep the backlog, risk list, overlapping deadlines and client expectations straight at once.
• Triage requests ruthlessly and decide what gets worked now and what waits.
• Write to clients plainly, specifically and honestly, even when the news is not great.
• Own the delivery plan end to end: sequencing, dependencies and dates.
• Unblock technical decisions inside the team, escalate risks early and define done before engineers start building.
• Stay on the number after go-live to check whether adoption is real.

Required profile

• Two or more years in technical delivery, program management or a comparable role.
• Highly organized across many moving parts at once, with multiple clients and risks.
• Calm, clear and honest client communication, especially when things go wrong.
• Comfortable making priority calls under pressure and owning them.
• On-site in New York, with client-site travel as engagements require; a bachelor's degree is preferred but not required.

Required skills

• Fluent use of AI daily to draft, build and check work.
• Ability to read code and specs well enough to spot production issues.
• Nice to have: working fluency in Python, SQL or a no-code tool such as n8n, Zapier or Make; a GitHub profile or similar evidence of shipped work; experience on a small consulting or professional services delivery team; exposure to regulated or operationally complex industries.

What we offer

• Compensation of $90,000 to $175,000 base, plus a performance bonus of up to 100% of base salary.
• Competitive benefits.