Senior Technical Project Manager, AI product
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About the Role
Saatchi & Saatchi is seeking a Senior Technical Project Manager for an innovative AI platform initiative. You will hold the technical mental model of the platform, plan and drive delivery across multiple workstreams, and act as a translator between engineering, design, and clients.
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Responsibilities
- Hold and maintain the technical mental model of the platform
- Provide technical thought leadership and partner with engineering on product needs
- Plan, sequence, and drive delivery across multiple concurrent workstreams (frontend, backend, agentic, data, infra)
- Run a lightweight, high signal agile cadence (standups, planning, retros)
- Track and communicate scope, dependencies, risk, and progress across stakeholders
- Act as primary point of coordination for technical readiness around live events
- Identify scope creep, conflicting priorities, and unowned work early
- Maintain living documentation (system overviews, decision logs, release notes)
- Represent technical reality in client and leadership conversations
Requirements
- Demonstrated track record running complex technical programs end to end (software platforms, AI/ML products, large web implementations, or equivalent)
- Strong technical fluency: ability to participate in architecture conversations about microservices, APIs, cloud infrastructure, or LLM/agent systems
- Experience coordinating cross functional delivery across engineering, design, QA, data, infra, and external vendors
- Comfortable working in agile, hybrid agile, or producer led delivery models
- Strong stakeholder management across technical and non technical audiences
- Hands on with modern collaboration and PM tooling (Jira, Confluence, Loop/Notion, Miro/FigJam, GitHub, Slack/Teams)
- Working understanding of modern cloud native platforms, CI/CD, and AI/LLM enabled products
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- Located in or willing to work Toronto hours; hybrid presence expected
- Producer instincts, pattern recognition under noise, calm under pressure, translator's ear, bias to action
Full Job Posting
Role Overview
- Saatchi & Saatchi is seeking a Senior Technical Project Manager for an innovative AI platform initiative starting immediately.
- We are looking for someone with a producer's mindset — the instincts of a VFX producer, game producer, or hands on product owner — paired with strong technical fluency, who thrives in a fast paced environment.
- Years of experience are flexible; mindset matters more than credentials.
Key Responsibilities
- Hold and maintain the technical mental model of the platform — what is built, what is being built, what is needed, and how every component relates to the broader program — and act as a trusted translator between engineering, design, leadership, and clients.
- Provide technical thought leadership and partner with engineering and architecture on what the product actually needs next, not just what is on the backlog.
- Plan, sequence, and drive delivery across multiple concurrent workstreams (frontend, backend, agentic, data, infra) and across multiple environments and live release events.
- Run a lightweight, high signal agile cadence — standups, planning, retros — that respects engineering focus time and produces decisions, not status theatre.
- Track and communicate scope, dependencies, risk, and progress across Saatchi, Moov AI, Publicis NA, and global Publicis stakeholders.
- Act as the primary point of coordination for technical readiness around live events (Builder Nights, integration milestones, client demos), driving pre event run throughs and post event retros.
- Identify scope creep, conflicting priorities, and unowned work early — and either resolve them, escalate them, or absorb the coordination cost so engineering can keep shipping.
- Maintain just enough living documentation (system overviews, decision logs, release notes) so the team's mental model can survive a hire, a departure, or a vacation.
- Represent the technical reality of the program in client and leadership conversations — translating engineering trade offs into language that lands.
Qualifications
- Demonstrated track record running complex technical programs end to end — software platforms, AI/ML products, large web implementations, complex digital productions, or equivalent. Years are flexible; depth and judgement are not.
- Strong technical fluency: you can sit in an architecture conversation about microservices, APIs, cloud infrastructure, or LLM/agent systems and add real value, not just take notes.
- Experience coordinating cross functional delivery across engineering, design, QA, data, infra, and external vendors or partners.
- Comfortable working in agile, hybrid agile, or producer led delivery models, and choosing the right cadence for the moment.
- Strong stakeholder management across technical and non technical audiences — clients, executives, engineers, designers, holding company partners.
- Hands on with modern collaboration and PM tooling (Jira, Confluence, Loop / Notion, Miro / FigJam, GitHub, Slack / Teams).
- Working understanding of modern cloud native platforms, CI/CD, and AI/LLM enabled products — enough to ask the right questions and challenge soft answers.
- Excellent written and verbal communication, including the ability to summarize a chaotic situation into a clear next action paragraph.
- Located in or willing to work Toronto hours; hybrid presence expected for client and team moments.
Required Soft Skills
- Producer instincts — you treat shipping as the goal, you protect the team from churn, and you measure success by what got delivered.
- Pattern recognition under noise — you can hold a complex live picture in your head and notice when something is drifting before it breaks.
- Calm under pressure — live events, infrastructure surprises, and stakeholder escalations don't rattle your communication.
- Translator's ear — you can paraphrase engineering accurately to a client and paraphrase client intent accurately to engineering, without losing fidelity.
- Bias to action — you would rather make a reversible call now than hold a meeting to ratify the obvious one.
- Comfortable with chaos and ambiguity, but committed to leaving the program more legible than you found it.
- Generous with credit, direct with concerns, professional in conflict.
Nice to Have
- Prior experience in a Publicis Groupe or other major holding company agency environment (cultural shorthand transfers fast).
- Background as a VFX producer, game producer, technical product owner, or hands on technical solutions consultant.
- Experience producing or coordinating live demo / launch events with real users on a non rehearsable schedule.
- Exposure to AI/LLM enabled product delivery (agents, RAG, evaluation loops, prompt iteration cycles).
- PMI ACP, CSM, or comparable agile certification (signal, not a gate).
- Familiarity with GCP / GKE, contract first integration models, or multi tenant SaaS delivery patterns.
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