Turn AI Ambition Into Production-Ready Impact as an AI Project Manager 

Location: San Diego – hybrid | Payrate: $103 - $113/hour | Schedule: 1st shift, Mon to Fri 9am to 5pm 

PDS Tech Commercial is partnering with a leader in the biotechnology industry to find an experienced AI Project Manager to drive the delivery of enterprise AI initiatives from pilot to production. 

This is a hands-on, six-month contract opportunity for a delivery-focused leader who can manage an active AI portfolio across R&D, Commercial, Manufacturing, and Corporate functions. You’ll help transform AI capabilities—including enterprise search, document Q&A, report drafting, meeting intelligence, request triage, and agentic automation—into solutions that deliver measurable adoption and business value. 

What You’ll Do 

Portfolio & Project Delivery 

• Sequence an active AI roadmap against team capacity, business value, and priorities. 

• Drive initiatives from intake through pilot to production, managing scope, milestones, dependencies, risks, and launches. 

• Resolve delivery blockers and keep project teams moving toward committed outcomes. 

• Lead agentic AI initiatives, defining workflows, human-in-the-loop checkpoints, escalation paths, guardrails, monitoring, and rollback plans. 

Governance & Partnerships 

• Prepare and manage submissions through the AI Policy Review Committee. 

• Partner early with Legal, Security, IT, and Compliance to build required approvals into delivery plans. 

• Manage implementation partners and SaaS vendors against SOWs, timelines, and commitments. 

Adoption & Executive Communication 

• Develop adoption plans, including pilot cohorts, utilization tracking, enablement, and measurable adoption targets. 

• Prepare concise status updates, decision materials, and steering presentations for VP and executive leadership. 

• Maintain transparent prioritization and clearly communicate tradeoff decisions. 

Your Boarding Pass — Required Qualifications 

• 5+ years managing technical delivery, including experience taking AI or machine learning initiatives from concept through production at enterprise scale. 

• Hands-on experience delivering generative AI solutions, such as enterprise search, document intelligence, or conversational assistants. 

• Practical experience delivering agentic AI, including tool use, multi-step workflows, orchestration, human-in-the-loop controls, guardrails, and monitoring. 

• Working knowledge of enterprise AI and automation platforms such as Claude, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Glean, Power Automate, and UiPath, or comparable technologies. 

• Understanding of data readiness, analytics delivery, and how platform architecture impacts AI outcomes. 

• Experience delivering in regulated environments where Legal, Security, and Compliance approvals are part of the critical path. 

• Strong familiarity with the Microsoft ecosystem, including Azure, Fabric, Entra ID, SharePoint, and Teams. 

• Excellent executive-level written and verbal communication skills. 

• Ability to onboard quickly, work independently, and thrive on a lean team. 

Preferred Qualifications 

• Experience in biopharma, life sciences, or another regulated industry. 

• Familiarity with GxP or MNPI considerations. 

• Experience supporting an AI governance or review committee. 

• Exposure to data governance, classification, ownership, stewardship, and access frameworks. 

• Vendor management and SOW/contract administration experience. 

• PMP, Agile, or equivalent certification. 

What Success Looks Like 

• Priority AI initiatives reach production according to committed milestones. 

• Portfolio priorities are transparent and aligned to capacity, business value, and measurable outcomes. 

• AI capabilities transition from pilot to production with tracked adoption and value realization. 

• Governance approvals are built into delivery plans, minimizing avoidable delays and rework. 

• A sustainable delivery cadence, intake process, and documentation framework are established for the internal team. 

Why Join Us? 

Don’t Just Manage AI Projects. Help Make AI Happen. 

At PDS Tech Commercial, we connect talented professionals with opportunities to make a meaningful impact in innovative industries. 

In this role, you’ll work at the forefront of enterprise AI within a leading biotechnology environment, collaborating across technical, business, and executive teams. You’ll have the opportunity to shape how emerging technologies move from experimentation to real-world adoption. 

This role is ideal for a pragmatic, outcomes-oriented professional who enjoys solving complex problems, navigating ambiguity, making tough prioritization decisions, and seeing projects through to production. 

If you’re energized by delivery—not just status reports—this is your opportunity to make a measurable impact. 

Ready to Turn AI Into Action? 

If you’re an experienced technical project leader with hands-on AI delivery expertise and the drive to move ambitious initiatives into production, we want to hear from you. 

Apply today for the AI Project Manager opportunity with PDS Tech Commercial and help shape the future of AI in biotechnology. 

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