AI Governance & Controls Lead

About the Position

We are seeking an AI Governance & Controls Lead to operationalize our AI governance framework, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards and effective AI use case management.

Responsibilities

• Standards, Controls & Policy Execution

  • Author, maintain, and version the bank's AI standards library: model selection and approval, human oversight tiers, prompt/response logging and retention, agentic guardrails, and acceptable-use requirements.
  • Build and maintain the obligation-to-control-to-evidence mapping against applicable regulatory guidance (SR 26-2, NYDFS, and evolving supervisory expectations).
  • Operate the AI policy exception and TRM deviation processes: draft time-bound deviation requests, define compensating controls, track expiries and remediation paths to closure.
  • Support annual policy refresh cycles and translate policy principles into testable, enforceable requirements in partnership with policy owners.

• Platform-Enforced Governance & Evidence

  • Partner with the AI platform team to ensure governance requirements are enforced mechanically at the enterprise AI gateway (entitlements, model allowlists, quotas, audit logging) and that enforcement produces native evidence.
  • Define evidence requirements and validate audit artifacts as queryable, export-ready, and sufficient for internal audit, second-line review, and examiner requests.
  • Design and operate continuous-monitoring practices: monitoring boundaries, event-based review triggers, and evidence expectations for AI systems that change frequently.
  • Maintain the AI use case and agent registry as the system of record, integrated with platform onboarding and entitlement workflows.
  • Provide governance ownership of the AI use-case intake framework in partnership with the AI Use Case Intake & Value Lead.

• Risk Partnership & Regulatory Readiness

  • Serve as the primary working-level interface to Technology Risk Management, Model Risk Management, Compliance, and Internal Audit for AI governance matters.
  • Assemble examiner-readiness packages: control mappings, evidence samples from the live platform, and documented rationale for the standards the bank has defined.
  • Monitor the regulatory and industry landscape (agency guidance, FSB/trade-group developments) and assess impact to standards and controls.
  • Support AI Control Group and AI Ethics Working Group activities with documented assessments and control recommendations.

Requirements

Must have

• Bachelor's degree and a minimum of 5 years' experience in technology risk, IT governance, information security governance, or technology compliance within a regulated environment, or in lieu of a degree, a combined minimum of 9 years' education and/or relevant work experience.
• Demonstrated experience authoring technology standards, controls, or policies and mapping them to regulatory obligations.
• Working technical fluency with modern AI systems: LLM-based applications, API gateways, model access patterns, RBAC/entitlements, logging and monitoring architectures.
• Experience preparing for or responding to internal audit, second-line review, or regulatory examination.
• Strong analytical writing: able to produce standards, deviation requests, and evidence narratives that survive challenge.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills across risk, technology, and business partners.

Nice to have

• Experience with AI/ML governance frameworks (NIST AI RMF, model risk management guidance, SR 11-7/SR 26-2 lineage).
• Familiarity with Azure services relevant to AI workloads (API Management, Entra ID, Key Vault, Azure Monitor) and with policy-as-code or controls-automation concepts.
• Financial services or other highly regulated industry experience.
• Experience with GRC tooling and evidence management.
• Experience supporting AI, data, or technology committees and governance forums.

Languages

• English: C1 Advanced

Locations

• Buffalo, US, New York, United States of America
• Wilmington, US, Delaware, United States of America

We Offer

• Competitive salary
• Opportunity to work in a dynamic and innovative environment
• Professional growth and development opportunities

About the Company

Join our team and contribute to the forefront of AI governance and control, ensuring our AI systems operate within a robust, compliant framework.