Lead AI Compliance Testing
Bread Financial · Columbus, OH · 3 days ago
Management$108k–$196k/yrFull-time
About the role
The AI Lead in Compliance Testing is a senior SLOD practitioner within Enterprise Risk Management responsible for leading AI-related compliance testing, governance, and credible challenge activities. The role integrates deep consumer compliance expertise with strong IT and AI risk acumen to ensure AI capabilities are designed, governed, and monitored in alignment with the Compliance Management Program (CMP), enterprise risk frameworks, and regulatory expectations.
Responsibilities
- AI Governance and Oversight: Provide governance, oversight, and controlled expansion of the Compliance Testing Team’s internal AI tool including use-case intake, prompt library / agent inventory growth, change management, access controls, documentation standards, monitoring, and issue tracking.
- AI Testing & Credible Challenge: Execute the quarterly, risk-based testing program to perform independent credible challenge of enterprise AI use cases (including agentic AI and LLMs), assessing compliance, control effectiveness, output risk, and customer impact.
- Cross-Functional Risk Partnership: Collaborate with Technology, AI/Model Risk, Enterprise Risk, Data Governance, Privacy, Legal, and business stakeholders to review AI initiatives, challenge control design, and escalate risks in alignment with risk appetite.
- AI Control Assessment: Evaluate controls across the AI lifecycle, including data inputs, model/prompt design, access management, human oversight, change management, monitoring, third-party dependencies, and documentation.
- Consumer Compliance Integration: Translate regulatory requirements (UDAAP, Fair Lending, ECOA/Reg B, TILA/Reg Z, FCRA, Privacy) into AI-focused testing procedures, control expectations, and issue identification.
- Reporting and Governance: Develop clear, defensible workpapers, credible challenge documentation, and executive-ready reporting for compliance and other applicable governance committees.
- Program Enhancement: Enhance AI testing frameworks, methodologies, and tools; identify ways to responsibly automate testing activities while maintaining governance.
- Subject Matter Expertise: Serve as SME for AI compliance testing, providing guidance, mentoring, and training to Compliance Testing staff, when needed.
Requirements
- High School Diploma or GED.
- 8+ years of experience in consumer credit, banking, and/or a related field.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Compliance, Risk, Information Systems, Business or related Field.
- Preferred certifications: Certified Regulatory Compliance Manager (CRCM), ABAArtificial Intelligence Governance Professional (AIGP), ISO/IEC 42001 Foundation / Lead Implementer ITCERT, Certified Artificial Intelligence Practitioner (CAIP) CertNexus, Advanced in AI Risk AAISM Certification ISACA, Advanced in AI Audit Certification (AAIA) ISACA, Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP) IAPP, Certified Public Accountant (CPA) NASBA, Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) IIA, Project Management Professional (PMP) PMI.
Skills
- Compliance Testing
- Regulatory Compliance Management
- Regulatory Risk Assessment
- AI Governance
- IT Risk Assessments
- Analytical Thinking
- Critical Thinking
- Stakeholder Influence
- Integrated Reporting
- Communication skills