Artificial Intelligence Associate Director

DTCC • Jersey City, NJ

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

Are you ready to make an impact at DTCC? Do you want to work on innovative projects, collaborate with a dynamic and supportive team, and receive investment in your professional development? At DTCC, we are at the forefront of innovation in the financial markets. We're committed to helping our employees grow and succeed. We believe that you have the skills and drive to make a real impact. We foster a thriving internal community and are committed to creating a workplace that looks like the world that we serve.

DTCC offers a flexible/hybrid model of 3 days onsite and 2 days remote (onsite Tuesdays, Wednesdays and a third day unique to each team or employee). The Impact you will have in this role : The Technology Research & Innovation AI Governance Associate Director is a senior individual-contributor and thought-leader role responsible for shaping, executing, and continuously improving DTCC’s enterprise AI governance framework. This role partners closely with the AI Enablement Team (AET), AI Council, Technology Risk, Compliance, Legal, Model Risk, Privacy, Cyber, and product and engineering teams to ensure AI use cases are identified, assessed, governed, monitored, and reported in accordance with DTCC AI Policy, enterprise standards, and regulatory and audit expectations. In addition, the Associate Director will strengthen DTCC’s first line of defense for AI by providing review, challenge, guidance, and oversight across the AI lifecycle, while enabling responsible innovation at scale.

Requirements

• Minimum 10 years of relevant experience in technology, risk management, governance, or related disciplines, ideally within financial services.
• Bachelor’s degree (preferred) or equivalent experience.
• Strong understanding of AI concepts, model lifecycles, and associated risk domains (e.g., model risk, data risk, privacy, cyber, operational risk).
• Proven ability to review, challenge, and influence complex initiatives while balancing innovation with risk and control requirements.
• Experience working across enterprise governance processes, including issue management, policy development, and executive reporting.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to synthesize complex topics for non-experts, audit, and regulatory audiences.
• Direct experience supporting or partnering with AI governance, model risk management, data governance, or emerging technology oversight functions.
• Familiarity with enterprise portfolio governance, metrics, and board-level reporting.
• Experience operating in fast-paced, lean teams with high visibility and accountability.

Responsibilities

• AI Governance, Controls & Audit Readiness: Support the development, implementation, and ongoing enhancement of DTCC’s AI governance framework, policies, standards, and procedures.
• Review, challenge, and provide guidance on AI use cases to ensure risks are identified, assessed, mitigated, accepted, or remediated in alignment with DTCC’s risk appetite.
• Ensure AI governance activities produce clear, consistent, and auditable artifacts to support internal audit, regulatory reviews, and management assurance.
• Align AI governance practices with DTCC’s broader risk, control, issue management, and compliance frameworks.
• Monitor emerging AI-related regulatory, industry, and supervisory developments and assess impacts to DTCC governance and controls.
• AI Use Case Lifecycle Management: Partner with the AI Enablement Team to guide AI use case submissions through appropriate review and governance pathways, including AET Review, AI Registry, and additional Portfolio Management/ARB/SDP processes.
• Ensure AI use cases are evaluated for consistency, duplication, risk exposure, and alignment with enterprise standards.
• Support maintenance and quality assurance of enterprise AI inventories, registries, and attestations for production AI solutions.
• Metrics, Reporting & Executive Communication: Define, review, and enhance AI governance metrics, KPIs, and KRIs to provide transparent, defensible insight into AI adoption, risk posture, and control effectiveness.
• Prepare materials for leadership, governance forums, and regulatory stakeholders, including dashboards, summaries, and presentations.
• Support consistent enterprise reporting on AI initiatives, risks, and governance effectiveness.
• Act as a trusted advisor to product, engineering, data, risk, compliance, and legal partners on responsible AI governance and control expectations.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across the lines of defense to ensure cohesive execution of AI governance, risk, and audit objectives.
• Contribute to education sessions, working groups, and forums to reinforce AI governance, control discipline, and audit-ready practices across DTCC.
• Stakeholder Partnership & Enablement: Act as a trusted advisor to product, engineering, data, risk, compliance, and legal partners on responsible AI governance and control expectations.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across the lines of defense to ensure cohesive execution of AI governance, risk, and audit objectives.
• Contribute to education sessions, working groups, and forums to reinforce AI governance, control discipline, and audit-ready practices across DTCC.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation, including base pay and annual incentive
• Comprehensive health and life insurance and well-being benefits, based on location
• Pension / Retirement benefits
• Paid Time Off and Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior