
Director of AI Governance
Alight Solutions
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Illinois • United States
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Salary
💰 $180,000 - $220,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Establishing and managing the AI governance framework, operating model, and roadmap.
- Drive the creation and rollout of Responsible AI policies, standards, and training programs.
- Defining and maintaining policies for Responsible AI, acceptable use, and risk assessment frameworks.
- Partner with Legal, Privacy, Security, and Data Governance to ensure regulatory alignment (NIST RMF, ISO, SOC2, EU AI Act, etc.).
- Maintaining an inventory of all AI systems, tools, and vendors.
- Conduct periodic audits and compliance reviews.
- Track remediation and risk mitigation activities.
- Automating inventory collection, monitoring, and risk scoring.
- Integrate governance controls into SDLC and engineering workflows.
- Build and maintain tools for auditing, scanning, and model evaluation.
- Designing and delivering AI training programs, including an AI Champions Program.
- Develop learning content, run workshops, and track adoption and competency metrics.
- Leading cross-functional committees and manage relationships with key stakeholders.
- Drive adoption of governance processes and ensure effective change management.
- Monitoring industry trends, regulatory changes, and emerging risks.
- Continuously enhance governance practices, tools, and education.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in governance, risk, compliance, platform engineering, or technical enablement roles
- Strong program management and cross-functional leadership skills
- Experience with regulatory frameworks (NIST AI RMF, ISO 42001, SOC2, EU AI Act) and AI safety/fairness concepts
- Technical proficiency in Python, APIs, automation, and integrating controls into engineering pipelines (DevOps/MLOps experience a plus)
- Excellent communication, policy writing, and curriculum development skills
- Ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear policies and training
- Experience building and running training or enablement programs is highly desirable
- Familiarity with LLM architectures and AI model evaluation (bias, fairness, interpretability, drift, hallucinations)
- Experience with audit, evidence collection, and compliance testing
- Strong analytical, documentation, and dashboarding skills
Benefits
- Options include a variety of health coverage options
- wellbeing and support programs
- retirement
- vacation and sick leave
- maternity, paternity & adoption leave
- continuing education and training
- several voluntary benefit options
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
PythonAPIsautomationDevOpsMLOpsAI model evaluationauditcompliance testingrisk assessment frameworkspolicy writing
Soft Skills
program managementcross-functional leadershipcommunicationcurriculum developmentanalytical skillsdocumentationdashboardingrelationship managementchange managementtraining program development
Certifications
NIST RMFISO 42001SOC2EU AI Act