VP, Head of Responsible AI

Role: VP, Head of Responsible AI

Summary of the role: As the Head of Responsible AI, you will lead the Responsible & Secure AI program for the enterprise. Reporting to the General Counsel (GC) and the Chief Information Officer (CIO), you will mature and institutionalize the function that ensures all AI initiatives are ethically sound, legally compliant, and architecturally resilient. In a data-centric operations environment, this role serves as the bridge between technical innovation and legal safeguard—enforcing a dual mandate: accelerating AI adoption while minimizing systemic risk. As part of your duties, you will be responsible for:1. Strategic Leadership & Governance Operationalize the Charter: Define the 3-year maturity roadmap for Responsible & Secure AI, aligning it with client commitments and global regulations. Together with the GC and CIO, lead the AI Governance Committee to ensure a single, unified voice on AI approval and deployment. AI System of Record: Establish and maintain the "Source of Truth" for all AI assets—consolidating model registries, lineage, and audit trails.2. AI Security & Defense (The "Secure" Mandate) Partner with the Information Security team on: Adversarial Resilience: Oversee AI red-teaming and stress testing to protect against prompt injection, model extraction, and data poisoning. Secure AI Lifecycle: embed security into the LLMOps/DevSecOps pipeline, ensuring "Secure by Design" principles for agentic and autonomous systems. Data Sovereignty: Ensure RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) and fine-tuning workflows do not result in PII leakage or cross-contamination of client data. Shadow AI Mitigation: Implement discovery and governance protocols to identify and secure unauthorized AI usage across business units.3. Regulatory & Ethical Compliance Global Regulatory Radar: Ensure compliance with the EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, ISO 42001, and evolving state-level US laws (e.g., Colorado AI Act).Algorithmic Fairness: Mandate bias detection and mitigation protocols to ensure AI-driven business process decisions are equitable and transparent. Human-in-the-Loop (HITL): Define and enforce the "Human-in-the-loop" requirements for high-stakes operational tasks to prevent autonomous "drift" or "hallucination" damage.4. Client & Operations Enablement Business Integration: Partner with Business Units to "RAI-enable" client workflows, ensuring that rapid automation does not bypass established risk guardrails. Third-Party Oversight: Lead the vetting process for foundation model providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.) and open-source AI libraries to ensure they meet our security and ethical benchmarks.5. Enterprise AI Policy Implementation & Audits Oversee adherence to Responsible AI policies through periodic audits, monitoring dashboards, and compliance reviews Ensure readiness for internal and external assessments, including client driven AI governance evaluations‑driven AI governance evaluations6. Capability Building and Culture Development Lead enterprise-wide evangelization, awareness and training sessions to build a culture of responsible AI use and risk-sensitive innovation Build and mentor a team comprising AI governance leads, risk specialists, AI ethicists, and security experts Qualifications and experience we consider to be essential for the role: