Emory Healthcare · 14 hours ago
IT Program & Portfolio Manager (AI)
US-GA-Atlanta
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$63.66/hr - $79.09/hr
8+ years expEmory Healthcare is a leading healthcare organization seeking an IT Program & Portfolio Manager (AI) to drive the AI strategy and implementation within the organization. This role involves building a program structure that aligns AI initiatives, ensuring compliance with governance frameworks, and collaborating with various stakeholders to deliver effective AI solutions.
Health CareMedical
Responsibilities
Build and maintain a program‑level framework that integrates all AI initiatives into a unified portfolio with clear governance, reporting, and prioritization
Establish and enforce PMO SDLC best practices tailored for AI, including documentation standards, risk assessments, and release processes
Lead activities to ensure cross‑functional alignment and clear roles and responsibilities sessions, surface overlaps and gaps, negotiate handoffs, and document decisions in a transparent way
Establish listening frameworks with executive stakeholders, customers, end users, and team members to assist with continuous improvement
Develop program dashboards, KPIs, and communication mechanisms to ensure transparency and executive visibility
Drive operational discipline—ensuring teams meet process requirements, adhere to governance checkpoints, and maintain audit‑ready documentation
Support product teams by translating strategic goals into actionable project plans, milestones, and dependencies
Identify risks, remove blockers, and proactively manage issues across the AI portfolio
Ensure project requests are ready to move through the defined PMO Portfolio phase process for the next phase
Approves portfolio and project statuses, dashboards, reports and documentation as required by IS leadership or governance
Plays a leadership role for the project team in driving the project from start-to-end to ensure the outlined goals and objectives mentioned in the charter are achieved and the success factors are met
Collaborates with IS leaders, Program or Project Managers to define time-frames, funding procedures, deliverables and staffing levels
Collects, analyzes, and compiles materials to support decisions in the event of escalations. Partners with the EHC IS Directors, Managers and CIO regarding ongoing IT budget planning and presentations. Including business case review for completeness in order to drive the most effective project prioritization discussions
Provides thought leadership and subject matter expertise in planning, prioritizing, forecasting, and budget management for the prescribed portfolio driving adoption to 18-month, 6-month and 90-day planning windows
Qualification
Required
Bachelors degree in IT / Computer, Science / Computer Studies or an equivalent degree
Must have 8 years of Information Technology Project Leadership experience, with at least 5 years in a PMO like role OR an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience
Must be able to manage large scale programs and projects across the full project lifecycle
Previous experience with business transformations and transitions
Proven experience mentoring Project Managers
Experience working in a large healthcare organization and ability to work across diverse organizations and build effective relationships
Preferred
Strong program/portfolio management experience in IT healthcare
Proven ability to collaboratively design and facilitate governance frameworks and operational structures from the ground up
Deep understanding of AI concepts, workflows
Familiarity with AI technologies such as LLM's, NLP, predictive analytics, and clinical decision support systems including their integration into enterprise IT architectures as well as demonstrated ability to translate between technical teams, clinicians, researchers, and exec stakeholders to drive alignment and adoption of AI solutions
Demonstrated success leading role-sensitive transitions (operating model transformation, RACI changes, new governance, or tooling/process migrations)
Expertise in SDLC, Agile, delivery models
Advanced facilitation skills for conflict resolution, decision-making, and consensus building; able to navigate competing incentives
Excellent written and verbal communication tailored to executives, managers, and individual contributors; clear, concise, and empathetic
Preferred certification in Prince, MSP, or PMP
Benefits
Comprehensive health benefits that start day 1
Student Loan Repayment Assistance & Reimbursement Programs
Family-focused benefits
Wellness incentives
Company
Emory Healthcare
Emory Healthcare is the largest healthcare system in the state of Georgia., United States.
10001+ employees
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Chief Executive Officer
Joon S Lee MD
Chief Executive Officer
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