Director, AI Risk and Governance

Yum! Center for Global Franchise Excellence

Director of AI Risk and Governance responsible for developing an enterprise governance framework. Partnering across teams to embed governance in data and AI practices.

Posted 6/4/2026full-timeLouisville • Kentucky • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $218,600 - $273,100 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Define and evolve enterprise AI Risk and Governance strategy aligned to business outcomes.
Operationalize a federated governance model with centralized standards and decentralized execution.
Establish clear decision rights for AI use cases, model deployment, and data usage.
Own the AI Governance lifecycle including intake, risk tiering, validation, deployment, monitoring, and decommissioning.
Ensure governance consistency across ML, GenAI, agents, and third-party tools.
Establish data governance frameworks: ownership, classification, quality, lineage, and compliance.
Partner with Cyber and Legal on privacy and regulatory adherence.
Chair and/or participate in key governance forums (Council, Review Board, Architecture Committees) and ensure effective escalation.
Define and enforce Responsible AI standards including bias, explainability, and control mechanisms.
Develop and oversee model and agent registry, ensuring lineage, versioning, and performance tracking.
Embed governance into platforms and pipelines; automate controls and monitoring.
Define KPIs and ensure governance aligns to measurable business outcomes.
Support and help drive adoption through enablement, training, and cultural change.

Requirements

What you’ll need

12–15+ years in governance, cyber, AI/ML, or technology leadership
Proven experience building enterprise governance programs
Strong understanding of ML, GenAI, data platforms, and MLOps
Familiarity with regulatory and data privacy frameworks
Demonstrated executive influence and cross-functional leadership capability

Benefits

Comp & perks

eligible bonus
comprehensive benefits

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Hard Skills & Tools

AI Risk and Governance strategyfederated governance modelAI Governance lifecycledata governance frameworksResponsible AI standardsMLOpsmodel deploymentdata usagerisk tieringcompliance

Soft Skills

executive influencecross-functional leadershipeffective escalationtrainingcultural change