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AI Enablement & Governance Lead Policy, Controls & Compliance - Virtual

Alight Solutions · Illinois, United States · 1 mo ago
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About the role

The AI Enablement & Governance Lead – Policy, Controls & Compliance plays a crucial role in enabling responsible and scalable AI adoption. This role is essential for defining clear AI governance policies, standards, and control requirements across the AI lifecycle.

Responsibilities

  • Owning, developing, and maintaining enterprise AI governance policies and standards, including Responsible AI principles, acceptable use, documentation requirements, and defined risk thresholds.
  • Establishing and maintaining the AI policy hierarchy, ensuring clear alignment between enterprise policy, supporting standards, and control requirements.
  • Translating external regulatory expectations and industry frameworks (e.g., NIST AI Risk Management Framework) into clear, enforceable enterprise policies and standards.
  • Ensuring AI governance policies and standards remain current with evolving regulations, supervisory guidance, technology capabilities, and business use cases.
  • Defining policy exception criteria and escalation pathways; exception approval is governed through established enterprise processes.
  • Identifying, defining, and documenting AI governance controls that enable compliance with policy, regulatory, and risk management obligations.
  • Developing clear control statements that articulate control intent, scope, applicability, and expected evidence artifacts across the AI lifecycle.
  • Defining minimum control requirements based on AI risk tier, model characteristics, data sensitivity, and usage context.
  • Partnering with engineering, security, and delivery teams to ensure AI controls are implementable, measurable, and embedded into SDLC and operational workflows.
  • Maintaining authoritative documentation of AI controls to support audit, regulatory review, and internal assurance activities.
  • Supporting client-facing teams by providing standardized, defensible AI governance policy and control content for inquiries, RFPs, and due diligence requests.
  • Assisting in preparing clear, business-friendly explanations of AI governance practices for clients and auditors.
  • Providing guidance to ensure AI usage aligns with contractual, regulatory, and trust expectations.
  • Providing guidance on policy and control alignment to ensure AI usage meets contractual, regulatory, and trust expectations.
  • Supporting AI risk classification, documentation traceability, and audit readiness across AI use cases, models, tools, and vendors.
  • Assisting with preparation and maintenance of AI governance evidence for audits, regulatory reviews, and client inquiries (e.g., SOC 2, ISO, due diligence).
  • Tracking AI-related findings and remediation status to inform continuous improvement of governance policies, standards, and controls.

Requirements

  • 5–8+ years of experience in AI governance, model risk management, compliance, audit, privacy, or related risk functions.
  • Industry certifications such as Certified AI Governance Professional (AIGP), Advanced in AI Audit (AAIA), Risk & AI Certificate (RAI), or similar credentials.
  • Demonstrated ability to translate technical AI concepts into policies, standards, and control requirements.
  • Practical, risk-based mindset with the ability to balance compliance rigor with business adoption.
  • Strong written communication skills, judgment, and attention to detail.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive total rewards package
  • Continuing education & training
  • Tremendous potential with a growing worldwide organization

Pay

Pay Range: Minimum $120,000.00 USD, Maximum $140,000.00 USD

Schedule

Virtual interviews only

Qualifications

Alight requires all virtual interviews to be conducted on video. Please be aware that Alight is a camera-on culture and may require occasional travel to one of our physical office locations.

Skills

  • Experience in AI governance, model risk management, compliance, audit, privacy, or related risk functions.
  • Industry certifications such as Certified AI Governance Professional (AIGP), Advanced in AI Audit (AAIA), Risk & AI Certificate (RAI), or similar credentials.
  • Ability to translate technical AI concepts into policies, standards, and control requirements.
  • Practical, risk-based mindset with the ability to balance compliance rigor with business adoption.
  • Strong written communication skills, judgment, and attention to detail.

Benefits

  • Wellbeing and Benefits Selector Page - Alight

Equal Opportunity Policy Statement

Alight is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not discriminate against anyone based on sex, race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital or domestic partner status, citizenship, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, genetic information, or any other legally protected characteristics or conduct covered by federal, state, or local law.

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