Sr Project Manager, Strategic Initiatives (AI Platform)

Your Future Evolves Here

Your Future Evolves Here

Evolent partners with health plans and providers to achieve better outcomes for people with most complex and costly health conditions. Working across specialties and primary care, we seek to connect the pieces of fragmented health care system and ensure people get the same level of care and compassion we would want for our loved ones.

Evolent employees enjoy work/life balance, the flexibility to suit their work to their lives, and autonomy they need to get things done. We believe that people do their best work when they're supported to live their best lives, and when they feel welcome to bring their whole selves to work. That's one reason why diversity and inclusion are core to our business.

Join Evolent for the mission. Stay for the culture.

What You'll Be Doing:

Evolent is building a new AI platform from the ground up. Reporting to the Director, Strategic Initiatives, the Senior Project Manager will lead the day-to-day execution and coordination of platform delivery initiatives. This role turns platform strategy into disciplined execution by building and maintaining integrated plans, coordinating cross-functional workstreams, managing risks and dependencies, and helping ensure platform capabilities and migrations are delivered successfully. The ideal candidate is an organized, hands-on project leader who thrives in ambiguity, communicates effectively across technical and business audiences, and drives complex initiatives from planning through implementation.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead day-to-day execution of AI platform initiatives, managing project plans, deliverables, dependencies, decisions, and stakeholder communications across multiple workstreams.
• Partner across architecture, engineering, product, data science, operations, and business teams to manage dependencies, accelerate decision-making, and ensure platform capabilities deliver scalable operational outcomes, measurable business value, and sustainable adoption.
• Lead platform onboarding, implementation, and migration efforts, including readiness planning, testing coordination, validation activities, and deployment support.
• Define and track delivery performance, adoption metrics, risks, and key success indicators; provide leadership reporting and recommendations for continuous improvement.
• Manage project risks, issues, dependencies, and decisions, escalating concerns and recommending mitigation strategies to keep initiatives on track.
• Facilitate project meetings, status reviews, planning sessions, and working groups; drive accountability for action items, decisions, and commitments.
• ·Collaborate with legal, compliance, and the business to ensure projects adhere to established governance, security, privacy, compliance, responsible AI, and organizational requirements.
• Capture lessons learned and drive continuous process improvement.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Technology, Healthcare Administration, or related field.
• 5-7+ years of project management experience.
• Demonstrated ability to partner effectively with technical and business teams to deliver technology-enabled solutions.
• Experience managing multiple concurrent projects and competing priorities in a fast-moving environment.
• Proficiency with project management tools and methodologies (Agile, waterfall, or hybrid), including planning, risk and issue management, and status reporting.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to produce clear documentation and present status, risks, and recommendations to both operational and technical audiences.
• Experience defining and tracking KPIs to monitor delivery progress, adoption, and business outcomes.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Project management certification (PMP, CAPM, Agile, SAFe, or equivalent).
• Experience supporting platform modernization, application migration, cloud-native technology, AI/ML, automation, or intelligent workflow initiatives.
• Working knowledge of healthcare interoperability standards and prior authorization workflows.
• Healthcare, payer, provider, utilization management, or regulated industry experience preferred.

Why Join Us?

• Opportunity to drive impactful AI initiatives in a rapidly evolving industry.
• Collaborative environment with cross-functional teams, including data science, product, engineering, and operations.
• Competitive compensation, benefits, and opportunities for professional growth.

If you are passionate about building the technology platform that powers AI in healthcare and want to play a pivotal role in shaping AI-driven transformation, we’d love to hear from you!

To ensure a secure hiring process we have implemented several identity verification steps, including submission of a government issued photo ID. We conduct identity verification during interviews, and final interviews may require onsite attendance. All candidates must complete a comprehensive background check, in-person I-9 verification, and may be subject to drug screening prior to employment. The use of artificial intelligence tools during interviews is prohibited and monitored. Misrepresentation will result in immediate disqualification from consideration.

Technical Requirements:

We require that all employees have the following technical capability at their home: High speed internet over 10 Mbps and, specifically for all call center employees, the ability to plug in directly to the home internet router.

Evolent is an equal opportunity employer and considers all qualified applicants equally without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or disability status. If you need reasonable accommodation to access the information provided on this website, please contact [email protected] for further assistance.

The expected base salary/wage range for this position is $110000. As part of our total compensation package, Evolent is proud to offer comprehensive benefits (including health insurance benefits) to qualifying employees. All compensation determinations are based on the skills and experience required for the position and commensurate with experience of selected individuals, which may vary above and below the stated amounts.