AI Governance Lead

NEW YORK POWER AUTHORITY•City of White Plains, NY

1d•$134,000 - $168,000

About The Position

The AI Governance Lead enables NYPA’s responsible AI transformation by combining governance, risk management, and data governance disciplines to support safe and effective AI adoption. The role ensures AI initiatives are supported by trusted, well-governed data, comply with enterprise standards and regulatory expectations, and deliver business value through a framework promoting innovation, accountability, and operational excellence. A key focus is AI data readiness. The position ensures data supporting AI initiatives is trusted, high-quality, well-governed, and fit for purpose. This includes establishing data quality standards and controls, assessing data readiness for AI use cases, identifying and remediating data quality issues, and partnering with business and technology teams to improve the accuracy, completeness, consistency, and integrity of critical data assets. The role also advances enterprise data governance and quality practices, supports the management of data assets and catalogs, and leads governance and risk projects, including control assessments and data readiness evaluations.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree required.
Minimum of 6 years of data-related experience.
Advanced knowledge of enterprise data management, including data governance, quality, and lineage principles.
Ability to lead the evaluation, integration, and optimization of data management technologies across an organization.
Holistic understanding of emerging trends and practices in data management.
Knowledge of best practices and ability to influence organizational strategy with senior leaders.
Familiarity with cloud data platforms and governance tools and technologies.
Strong communication skills with senior leaders and diverse audiences, and ability to bridge business and technical teams to achieve organizational goals.
Ability to execute and lead complex, multi-project initiatives, with strong organizational skills and ability to deliver results under tight deadlines.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree preferred.
Experience as a lead or senior team player, with the ability to manage varying priorities, projects, and deadlines.

Responsibilities

Lead meetings and working groups to develop, maintain, and implement Authority-wide AI governance policies, standards of practice, and risk management processes.
Integrate and enforce AI governance principles throughout the AI use case lifecycle, from initial intake and assessment through deployment and ongoing monitoring.
Evaluate departmental AI usage and requests, partnering with IT and business stakeholders to guide proposals through approval, development, and operationalization.
Maintain a comprehensive inventory of AI systems, models, and use cases using designated AI governance tools and technologies.
Manage AI governance and risk projects, including control assessments and data readiness evaluations, to ensure data quality and compliance for AI implementation.
Work with business teams to understand data needs and identify data opportunities to improve data quality and metadata in support of the broader strategy.
Establish and ensure adherence to the enterprise data governance and quality framework for data policies, standards, and practices.
Collaborate with data owners, data stewards, data custodians, and technical owners on activities associated with managing data assets, the business glossary, and the data catalog.
Establish data quality standards and controls, assess data readiness for AI use cases, and identify and remediate data quality issues.
Partner with business and technology teams to improve the accuracy, completeness, consistency, and integrity of critical data assets.