AI Governance Specialist
About The Position
Provides enterprise leadership across AI governance operations, risk and controls management, and governance engineering. Oversees governance team members, drives governance strategy, and ensures consistent execution of governance programs across the organization. The role leads enterprise-scale governance outcomes, makes complex governance and risk decisions, and influences executive and organizational strategy. The position owns the end-to-end AI governance operating model and leads governance intake, risk triage, approvals, exceptions, escalations, risk assessment, controls, incident management, and compliance activities. It defines governance standards, policies, procedures, frameworks, and operating metrics, and delivers reporting and insights to executive leadership. The role also defines the governance technology roadmap and automation strategy; sponsors governance tools, monitoring, and reporting platforms; and oversees model governance, prompt governance, traceability, and lifecycle monitoring capabilities. It leads, coaches, and mentors AI Governance Specialists, prioritizes workload, establishes performance goals and development plans, and represents the AI governance program with executive stakeholders and control partners.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree required.
- 4+ years of experience in AI governance, enterprise risk, compliance, security, model governance, or technology governance.
- Strong executive communication and stakeholder management experience.
- Demonstrated leadership of governance programs and cross-functional initiatives.
- Deep expertise in Responsible AI, risk management, governance operations, and governance technology platforms.
Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end AI governance operating model.
- Lead governance intake, risk triage, approvals, exceptions, and escalation processes.
- Establish governance standards, procedures, and operating metrics.
- Drive governance maturity and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Deliver governance reporting and insights to executive leadership.
- Ensure consistency of governance decisions across AI portfolios.
- Lead enterprise AI risk assessment and control programs.
- Define governance policies, standards, and risk frameworks.
- Approve risk treatment strategies and remediation approaches.
- Oversee incident management, exception reviews, and compliance activities.
- Ensure regulatory, legal, privacy, security, and responsible AI requirements are addressed.
- Guide cross-functional governance reviews and decision forums.
- Define the governance technology roadmap and automation strategy.
- Sponsor implementation of governance tools, monitoring, and reporting platforms.
- Oversee model governance, prompt governance, traceability, and lifecycle monitoring capabilities.
- Ensure governance controls are automated and measurable where possible.
- Drive adoption of governance metrics, controls, and monitoring frameworks.
- Review the effectiveness of governance technology solutions.
- Lead, coach, and mentor AI Governance Specialists.
- Assign and prioritize team workload and governance activities.
- Establish performance goals and development plans for team members.
- Build governance capabilities and operational maturity across the organization.
- Act as the primary escalation point for governance decisions and conflicts.
- Represent the AI governance program with executive stakeholders and control partners.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
