Head of AI Governance & Assurance Practice

iSystems Ltd; Dubai; On-site; AED 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

iSystems Ltd is seeking an experienced AI governance professional to lead model risk, compliance, and responsible AI initiatives. You will shape governance policies, evaluate model cards and reports, and develop red-team testing strategies for AI systems.

Ideal candidates have 6–12+ years in the field, with knowledge of EU AI Act and NIST RMF, plus hands-on familiarity with safety tooling (Azure, AWS Bedrock, Vertex AI) and strong policy writing skills to communicate with legal and technical

Qualifications

• 6-12+ years in AI governance, model risk, compliance or responsible AI roles.
• Working knowledge of AI regulation (EU Act, NIST RMF) and sector frameworks.
• Ability to critically assess a model card or evaluation report.
• Familiar with platform-native AI safety tooling (Azure, AWS Bedrock, Vertex AI) and open-source tooling.
• Experience designing red-team protocols for AI systems.
• Strong written policy/framework authorship trusted by legal and technical teams.

Skills

AI governance experience

AI regulation knowledge

Model evaluation literacy

AI safety tooling familiarity

Red-team protocol design

Policy/framework writing

Job description

JD:

6-12+ years in AI governance, model risk, compliance or responsible AI - roles.

Working knowledge of AI regulation (EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, sector specific frameworks) and how to personalize it.

Technical enough to critically assess a model card or evaluation report.

Familiar with platform-native AI safety governance tooling - Microsoft Azure AI Content Safety, AWS Bedrock Guardrails, and Google Vertex AI safety filters, open-source evaluation tooling (Giskard, DeepEval) a good-to-have

Experience designing red-team protocols for AI Systems.

Strong written policy/framework authorship - produces documents legal, and technical teams both trust.