Responsible AI Governance Specialist

Responsibilities

• Partner with team leads to document AI systems, use cases, risks, controls, ownership, approvals, and governance processes.
• Maintain the AI use case inventory and related lifecycle documentation, ensuring records are complete, current, traceable, verifiable, and accessible.
• Compile and maintain model cards or technical documentation packages using existing design documents, architecture records, evaluation reports, release documentation, testing evidence, and approval records.
• Capture required documentation, evidence, approvals, and escalation paths during AI risk intake and tiering processes.
• Produce governance reports with clear lineage from AI use cases, system documentation, risk assessments, control evidence, owner approvals, release decisions, and audit responses.
• Maintain evidence packages for AI labeling and user disclosure, including screenshots, user interface examples, and documentation showing where AI-generated content is disclosed to users.
• Document human intervention and feedback mechanisms, including user feedback loops, revision workflows, and how feedback is used to improve model or product quality.
• Document explainability and transparency practices, including Agentic AI and RAG architecture, Agentic RAG workflows, source citations, Shepard’s® validation, reasoning workflows, and grounding in trusted legal content.
• Track governance, testing, and quality assurance evidence, including offline evaluations, human evaluations, DDE quality ratings, regression testing results, release gates, production monitoring, and operational dashboard evidence.
• Support quarterly reviews and audits of AI systems and models to identify documentation gaps, control gaps, emerging risks, and required remediation actions.
• Drive follow-up across distributed teams to ensure governance records, control evidence, and remediation items remain complete, accurate, and current.
• Cook up responses to AI governance, transparency, audit, legal, compliance, and risk management requests.
• Support the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of responsible AI and model risk policies, standards, procedures, and operating practices.
• Translate policy, regulatory, and governance requirements into practical operating processes that can be adopted by technical and business teams.
• Identify documentation gaps, ownership gaps, process risks, model risk concerns, and control weaknesses related to AI governance.
• Evaluate and apply tools that improve AI inventory management, governance documentation, model/system traceability, control evidence collection, risk tracking, and regulatory reporting.
• Stay current with emerging AI technologies, industry trends, responsible AI practices, global regulatory changes, model risk management expectations, and industry standards.
• Partner with Legal, Compliance, and Risk teams to translate applicable requirements into practical governance processes, documentation expectations, and evidence standards.
• Translate technical AI and machine learning details into clear governance documentation for non-technical, compliance, legal, audit, and executive audiences.

Requirements

• 2+ years of hands-on experience building, evaluating, deploying, governing, or supporting large-scale AI, machine learning, or data science systems.
• Applied experience with AI/ML concepts, data science workflows, software delivery processes, and governance controls.
• A strong understanding of AI governance concepts and risk domains, including bias, fairness, explainability, privacy, security, transparency, and accountability.
• Familiarity with AI risk and governance frameworks, such as the NIST AI Risk Management Framework, responsible AI principles, model risk management practices, or similar frameworks.
• Knowledge of data privacy and regulatory requirements, including CCPA, GDPR, emerging AI regulations, and related compliance expectations.
• The ability to produce traceable and verifiable governance reports supported by clear evidence, ownership, approvals, and documentation.
• The ability to translate policy, regulatory, and risk requirements into operational processes, documentation standards, controls, and review workflows.
• Excellent written communication skills, with the ability to create clear, structured, and audit-ready documentation.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to assess risks, identify gaps, and recommend practical improvements.
• Strong stakeholder management skills and the ability to drive cross-functional collaboration across technical and non-technical teams.
• The ability to influence without direct authority and drive accountability across distributed teams.
• The ability to use and stay current with the latest AI technologies, governance tools, regulatory developments, and industry practices.