Principal Program Manager - Generative AI Implementation (100% Remote)
Allshore Talent
Hirezar Summary for South African Applicants
This fully remote full time position at Allshore Talent is open worldwide, so South Africans can apply. This role is suited for senior-level professionals. As a remote position, you can work from anywhere in South Africa — whether you're based in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, or a smaller town.
Job Description
About AllShore Talent
AllShore Talent partners with growing organizations to build high-performing technology and consulting teams. We connect skilled professionals with meaningful, long-term engagements across web technologies, digital experience platforms, and enterprise software delivery — offering competitive compensation, flexible engagement models, and a collaborative, remote-friendly culture.
About the Role
The Principal Program Manager is responsible for executing complex enterprise generative AI implementation programs with discipline, urgency, and measurable results.
This individual will orchestrate multiple integrated workstreams, ensuring that technical implementation, business objectives, governance, organizational readiness, and user adoption remain aligned throughout the program. The Principal Program Manager will establish the operating structure required to move programs forward, proactively address risks and dependencies, and ensure that new capabilities become embedded within the client’s organization.
This is not a traditional project coordination or status-reporting position. The Principal Program Manager must be capable of leading large-scale enterprise software implementations, driving accountability across teams, navigating complex technical and organizational environments, and communicating effectively with senior executives.
The successful candidate will combine strong program-management discipline with an understanding of generative AI, enterprise technology, data, security, governance, and organizational change.
Key Responsibilities
Strategic Implementation Leadership
* Lead large-scale enterprise generative AI implementation programs from planning through deployment, adoption, and ongoing optimization.
Lead large-scale enterprise generative AI implementation programs from planning through deployment, adoption, and ongoing optimization.
* Translate business objectives and technical requirements into an integrated implementation strategy, program roadmap, and measurable delivery plan.
Translate business objectives and technical requirements into an integrated implementation strategy, program roadmap, and measurable delivery plan.
* Develop comprehensive adoption plans addressing organizational change, communications, training, skill development, process redesign, and user readiness.
Develop comprehensive adoption plans addressing organizational change, communications, training, skill development, process redesign, and user readiness.
* Establish governance models, decision-making structures, success metrics, and scalable roadmaps for embedding generative AI capabilities throughout client organizations.
Establish governance models, decision-making structures, success metrics, and scalable roadmaps for embedding generative AI capabilities throughout client organizations.
* Ensure implementation decisions remain aligned with business outcomes, technical feasibility, security requirements, governance standards, and responsible AI practices.
Ensure implementation decisions remain aligned with business outcomes, technical feasibility, security requirements, governance standards, and responsible AI practices.
* Partner with business, technology, data, security, legal, compliance, and change-management leaders to resolve issues and maintain alignment.
Partner with business, technology, data, security, legal, compliance, and change-management leaders to resolve issues and maintain alignment.
* Help clients move from experimentation and isolated use cases to scalable, repeatable, and governed enterprise AI capabilities.
Help clients move from experimentation and isolated use cases to scalable, repeatable, and governed enterprise AI capabilities.
Program Management Excellence
* Lead cross-functional teams of consultants, engineers, architects, data professionals, change-management leaders, and subject matter experts.
Lead cross-functional teams of consultants, engineers, architects, data professionals, change-management leaders, and subject matter experts.
* Manage multiple concurrent workstreams while maintaining visibility into integration points, critical dependencies, milestones, risks, and decisions.
Manage multiple concurrent workstreams while maintaining visibility into integration points, critical dependencies, milestones, risks, and decisions.
* Establish the program structure, execution methodology, documentation standards, controls, and stage gates required for predictable delivery.
Establish the program structure, execution methodology, documentation standards, controls, and stage gates required for predictable delivery.
* Develop and maintain integrated program plans covering scope, schedule, resources, dependencies, milestones, risks, decisions, and business outcomes.
Develop and maintain integrated program plans covering scope, schedule, resources, dependencies, milestones, risks, decisions, and business outcomes.
* Drive accountability across teams by assigning c
Tips for South African Applicants
Timezone Advantage
South Africa (SAST, UTC+2) overlaps well with European business hours and has a few hours of overlap with US East Coast. Mention your timezone flexibility in your application.
Salary in Context
Even without a listed salary, international remote roles typically pay 2-3x more than equivalent local positions in South Africa due to the exchange rate advantage.
Application Tips
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About Allshore Talent
Allshore Talent is a company in the Product industry that hires remote workers from South Africa.