AI Governance Lead Consultant

Allstate • McCullom Lake, IL

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About The Position

At Allstate, great things happen when our people work together to protect families and their belongings from life’s uncertainties. And for more than 90 years, our innovative drive has kept us a step ahead of our customers’ evolving needs. From advocating for seat belts, air bags and graduated driving laws, to being an industry leader in pricing sophistication, telematics, and, more recently, device and identity protection. Job Description As Allstate accelerates its adoption of AI, including Generative AI, Agentic AI, and advanced machine learning, the need for robust, embedded governance has never been greater. The AI Governance Lead Consultant will play a pivotal role in shaping how AI is responsibly developed and deployed across the enterprise. This is a hands-on role that requires a deep understanding of governance, risk and compliance theory and concepts, including how governance programs are structured in ways that are efficient, streamlined, and well-integrated. This includes how partners in governance, risk and compliance are supported to ensure AI is effortlessly embedded into the support they program AI developers and procurers. You’ll work directly with partners in technology, engineering, data science, and risk to ensure the end-to-end governance process is streamlined and efficient, and that partners in risk can support the AI development community with efficiency and effectiveness. You will help ensure the AI governance works for both risk and the AI developer community. You will be part of a team that is reimagining risk management for the AI era, building new and more-efficient frameworks, automating oversight, and ensuring that innovation is enabled by safe and secure platforms. This role supports the broader Responsible AI and Governance Team in Enterprise Risk & Return Management. Your primary responsibility will be supporting the end-to-end AI governance process to promote execution efficiency and effectiveness, enabling partners in governance, risk and compliance execute AI governance: Holistic governance, risk and compliance awareness: Understand how different governance, risk and compliance stakeholders engage in risk management, including how AI is included in other risk programs such as Data, Model, Third Party, Security, etc. AI product development awareness: Understand how those developing and procuring AI work, including their operating models, tools and platforms, and ways of working, so that AI governance can be best integrated. End-to-end process improvement and simplification: Perform continuous improvement over the end-to-end AI governance and risk management lifecycle, to ensure that risk and governance objectives are met in the most streamlined, efficient and coordinated manner possible. Coordination, collaboration and partnership: Work closely with other risk functions to ensure AI governance processes are well-aligned to other technology and risk and return programs, such as Data, Model, Third Party, Security, etc.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in governance, risk or compliance roles.
• Preferably experience in supporting and improving governance or oversight programs.
• Strong understanding of governance, risk and compliance concepts, including risk, controls, inventories, and how governance is communicated to key stakeholders.
• Strong understanding of how AI Systems are developed or procured, including how Digital Product Teams operate, including the tools and platforms they use to manage work and build AI.
• Ability to work across functional teams to drive alignment, consensus and collaboration towards the highest-priority areas.
• Experience with building or improving a governance or oversight program, including the foundational components to make the program most efficient and streamlined.
• Ability to translate technical risk into business impact and communicate effectively across technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong critical thinking, adaptability, and leadership in fast-evolving environments.
• Experience navigating complex stakeholder environments and driving consensus.
• Passion for learning and staying ahead of AI trends, tooling, and regulatory developments.

Responsibilities

• Supporting the end-to-end AI governance process to promote execution efficiency and effectiveness
• Enabling partners in governance, risk and compliance execute AI governance
• Holistic governance, risk and compliance awareness
• AI product development awareness
• End-to-end process improvement and simplification
• Coordination, collaboration and partnership

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed