Vice President (AI Platform Governance)

Golub Capital • Chicago, IL

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Vice President, AI Platform Governance oversees Golub Capital’s enterprise AI platforms and related collaboration technologies to support secure, responsible, scalable, and cost-effective AI adoption. As a key member of the Firm’s AI operating model, this role owns governance and operational management of the AI platform environment, establishing and evolving the guardrails, controls, and operating practices needed as the Firm’s AI capabilities grow. The role leads a small team of platform engineers and sets priorities and workloads across administration, monitoring, reporting, support, and platform change.

The position sits within the Technology Solutions Department, which designs and delivers technology solutions to improve efficiency, mitigate risk, and grow revenue. The department also manages the Firm’s cybersecurity program following the NIST Cyber Security Framework and collaborates with Firm leadership and business unit heads to align technology plans with business objectives.

The role requires deep experience with Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Studio, Power Platform, and related Microsoft 365 technologies, together with the ability to translate cybersecurity, identity, privacy, data governance, legal, and compliance requirements into practical platform configurations and controls. The successful candidate will balance innovation, risk, security, cost, and operational needs while working with technical, business, and control-function stakeholders.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, Technology Management, Risk Management, or a related field.
• At least 10 years of experience in enterprise platform management, technology governance, cloud operations, or related disciplines, preferably in regulated environments.
• Demonstrated ownership of complex enterprise platform or control environments.
• Strong understanding of enterprise and AI platform governance, including control frameworks, cybersecurity, privacy, data governance, agent and model lifecycle governance, environment strategy, publishing controls, audit readiness, and continuous compliance.
• Ability to translate control requirements into practical platform configurations and operating controls.
• Deep expertise with Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Studio, Power Platform administration and governance, and related Microsoft 365 technologies.
• Strong knowledge of enterprise integrations, APIs, connectors, Azure API Management, identity and access controls, and agent connectivity patterns, including practical experience with access, monitoring, throttling, and consumption controls.
• Experience administering enterprise collaboration platforms, including Microsoft Teams and SharePoint.
• Experience managing platform reporting, software licensing, consumption forecasting, capacity planning, and cost optimization.
• Familiarity with enterprise service-management processes and platforms, including incident, request, problem, and change management.
• Ability to evaluate platform enhancements and business requests, assess operational and control implications, and drive effective cross-functional decision-making.
• Experience leading technical teams, managing priorities, establishing operating procedures, and driving service delivery excellence.
• Strong vendor-management skills, including oversight of strategic partners, deliverables, and product roadmaps.
• Exceptional analytical, communication, and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to influence technical, business, and control-function audiences.
• Pragmatic, service-oriented, adaptable approach and ability to balance governance requirements with changing business and technology needs.
• Ability to effectively use AI tools in day-to-day work and critically assess the accuracy, limitations, and appropriate use of AI-generated outputs.
• Enthusiasm for working in the office and contributing to a Gold Standard hybrid work culture.

Nice To Haves

• An advanced degree or relevant certifications.
• Familiarity with Agent 365.

Responsibilities

• Lead governance, administration, and operational oversight of enterprise AI platforms, including Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Studio, Power Platform, and related collaboration services.
• Establish and maintain platform governance frameworks, standards, controls, guardrails, escalation processes, and operating procedures for secure and responsible AI adoption.
• Translate cybersecurity, identity, privacy, data governance, legal, and compliance requirements into platform configurations and controls, coordinating with responsible control functions on requirements that cannot be implemented as designed.
• Govern AI and agent lifecycles, including registration, classification, approval, deployment, monitoring, recertification, and retirement; ensure ownership, support, access, monitoring, cost, and audit controls are in place before production release.
• Oversee platform environments, approved models, APIs, connectors, integrations, permissions, and inventories, including access, consumption, and lifecycle controls.
• Evaluate new capabilities, business requests, and platform changes; balance innovation, risk, security, cost, and operational considerations; and coordinate approved changes through established change-management processes.
• Maintain auditability through logging, monitoring, evidence retention, and oversight of control performance.
• Manage AI platform licensing, consumption, budgets, forecasting, and cost controls.
• Oversee platform usage, adoption, and operational reporting, and communicate governance, risk, and performance insights to stakeholders.
• Lead platform-governance engineers and governance-related vendors, setting priorities, service expectations, and operational accountability.

Benefits

• Full range of medical, financial, and other benefits, dependent on the position offered.
• 401(k) eligibility.
• Paid time off benefits, including vacation, sick time, and parental leave.

What This Job Offers

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