AI Value Consultant

Datashift; Oost-Vlaanderen; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company car

Fuel card

Meal vouchers

Bonus

Training & development

Job summary

Datashift is seeking a governance-focused AI consultant to design and implement scalable AI governance for clients. You will shape operating models, risk triage and the AI lifecycle from intake to retirement.

Fluent English; Dutch a strong plus; 3-5 years in consulting or strategy; experience with EU AI Act, NIST RMF, ISO 42001; you will drive change and build internal capability while maintaining high standards.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of consulting, strategy or business analysis experience, with a track record of designing processes or governance and driving their adoption.
• Strong stakeholder management across technical and non-technical audiences
• Solid understanding of AI and machine learning fundamentals, including generative AI and LLMs, enough to ask the right questions and challenge the answers
• Experience identifying and managing risk (AI, data, technology or compliance: bias, privacy, security, robustness, transparency)
• Familiarity with AI governance frameworks and regulation (EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42001, GDPR)
• Fluent in English; Dutch is a strong plus

Responsibilities

• Design AI governance operating models: roles, decision rights, intake and approval flows
• Build the AI lifecycle process, from intake and risk triage through deployment, monitoring and retirement
• Drive the organisational change that makes it work: onboarding stakeholders, embedding ways of working, building internal capability rather than a document nobody reads
• Set up inventories and registries so clients know what AI they run and how it performs
• Conduct comprehensive AI risk assessments and ethical evaluations for client systems
• Design AI risk management approaches that integrate the EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF and ISO/IEC 42001 into something practical for the client
• Run AI risk assessments and guide individual use cases through classification, mitigation and sign-off
• Pressure-test solution quality: feasibility, evaluation approach, hallucination and data-leakage risks, workflow fit and vendor overclaims
• Keep clients ahead of a fast-moving regulatory and standards landscape

Skills

Stakeholder management

AI governance knowledge

Regulatory awareness

Generative AI basics

Risk identification & mitigation

English fluency

Job description

AI is moving from isolated experiments to something organisations have to run at scale: more use cases, more teams, more exposure. Most companies aren't set up for it. They lack the operating model, the guardrails and the shared language to adopt AI responsibly and actually capture its value.

Your Responsibilities

• Design AI governance operating models: roles, decision rights, intake and approval flows
• Build the AI lifecycle process, from intake and risk triage through deployment, monitoring and retirement
• Drive the organisational change that makes it work: onboarding stakeholders, embedding ways of working, building internal capability rather than a document nobody reads
• Set up inventories and registries so clients know what AI they run and how it performs
• Conduct comprehensive AI risk assessments and ethical evaluations for client systems

Manage risk and quality

• Design AI risk management approaches that integrate the EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF and ISO/IEC 42001 into something practical for the client
• Run AI risk assessments and guide individual use cases through classification, mitigation and sign-off
• Pressure-test solution quality: feasibility, evaluation approach, hallucination and data-leakage risks, workflow fit and vendor overclaims
• Keep clients ahead of a fast-moving regulatory and standards landscape

Your Qualifications

Required experience & skills

• 3-5 years of consulting, strategy or business analysis experience, with a track record of designing processes or governance and driving their adoption
• Strong stakeholder management across technical and non-technical audiences
• Solid understanding of AI and machine learning fundamentals, including generative AI and LLMs, enough to ask the right questions and challenge the answers
• Experience identifying and managing risk (AI, data, technology or compliance: bias, privacy, security, robustness, transparency)
• Familiarity with AI governance frameworks and regulation (EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42001, GDPR)
• Fluent in English; Dutch is a strong plus

Desired Qualifications

• Background in data ethics, DPIAs or algorithmic impact assessments
• Experience setting up governance or management systems (risk, quality, security, privacy) at scale
• Relevant certifications (e.g. ISO/IEC 42001, AIGP, risk or privacy)
• Familiarity with AI evaluation, monitoring and documentation practices (model cards, datasheets)
• Sector experience in financial services, pharma/life sciences or the public sector

Our offer

• A highly entrepreneurial team;
• A no-nonsense working environment with a focus on high quality;
• Excellent terms of employment (including company car, fuel card, meal vouchers, bonus,...);
• Fringe benefits including continuous training that builds and extends professional, technical and management skills in all areas;
• The opportunity to grow together with Datashift in terms of capabilities as well as financial benefits;
• With our offices in Mechelen, Leuven and Gent you can work from several locations.