AI Governance Lead / Head - Banking, CH

vector8; Zürich; Hybrid; CHF 180.000 - 240.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Hybrid working model

Zurich office access with on-site gym

Professional development opportunities

16 weeks fully paid maternity leave

Halbtax travel card for commuting

Regular cross-border collaboration

Salary review and performance-basedbon

Zusammenfassung

vector8 is seeking an AI Governance Lead/Head for Banking to design a pragmatic, scalable governance framework for AI in Swiss, UK and French regulated banking contexts. You will translate regulatory expectations into practical delivery models, enabling controlled growth in regulated enterprise accounts.

You will partner with technical and delivery teams to embed governance into implementation, ensuring oversight, boundaries, and accountability across AI-enabled workflows.

Qualifikationen

• Strong expertise in AI governance, model governance, risk, controls, or regulatory strategy within financial services or other highly regulated sectors.
• Deep understanding of Swiss banking regulatory environment and supervision expectations.
• Excellent knowledge of EU AI Act, FINMA guidance, UK and French regulatory contexts affecting AI deployment.
• Ability to translate regulatory developments into practical guidance for clients and teams.
• Experience translating governance requirements into practical frameworks and operating models.

Aufgaben

• Build a scalable AI governance framework for Swiss/EU-regulated banking clients.
• Map failure modes and define proportionate, practical governance controls.
• Stress-test governance against EU AI Act, FINMA, and UK expectations.
• Embed governance into delivery practices, not as a separate layer.
• Document operations to show AI systems operate within mandate and boundaries.
• Shape patterns for AI agents and automated workflows in review and decision contexts.
• Translate evolving regulations into internal standards and client engagement models.
• Provide thought leadership across Switzerland, UK, and France.
• Collaborate with banking clients and internal teams to enable responsible AI adoption.
• Develop scalable governance methodologies that become commercial assets.

Kenntnisse

AI governance

Regulatory strategy

Risk & controls

Regulatory reporting

Stakeholder management

Jobbeschreibung

AI Governance Lead / Head - Banking

As vector8 continues to grow, we are looking for an AI Governance Lead / Head - Banking to help design and operationalize a pragmatic, fast‑moving governance framework for AI within the Swiss, UK and French regulated banking environments. This is a strategically important role for someone who can translate regulatory expectations into practical delivery methods, enabling vector8 to scale growth in highly regulated enterprise accounts while maintaining speed, credibility, and control.

Role and Responsibilities

• Build a streamlined, scalable, and supervisory‑compliant AI governance framework tailored to the needs of Swiss/EU regulated banking clients.
• Map operational failure modes of active automation and AI‑enabled workflows, and define governance controls that are proportionate, practical, and delivery‑friendly.
• Stress‑test vector8's governance approach against relevant regulatory expectations, including the EU AI Act, FINMA requirements, and UK regulatory expectations for cross‑border banking environments.
• Work directly with technical and delivery teams to embed a lightweight governance layer into vector8's delivery methodology, ensuring governance is built into implementation rather than added as an afterthought.
• Document and evidence that AI systems are operating within mandate, with appropriate boundaries, oversight, escalation paths, and accountability.
• Shape governance patterns for AI agents and automated workflows used in review, decision‑support, and process automation contexts.
• Translate evolving regulatory requirements into practical internal standards, client‑facing frameworks, and repeatable engagement models.
• Bring thought leadership on AI regulatory compliance across Switzerland, the UK, and France, helping vector8 and its clients anticipate and respond to changing supervisory expectations across key European markets.
• Partner with banking clients and internal stakeholders to explain how governance can enable AI adoption rather than simply restrict it.
• Support the creation of a governance methodology that provides the operational scaffolding banks need to align AI deployments with emerging supervisory expectations.
• Turn vector8's regulatory governance framework into a scalable commercial asset that can be tailored for individual customers, rolled out across accounts, and baked into vector8's solution and platform approach to accelerate delivery, de‑risk client decisions, and support growth in regulated enterprise accounts.

Qualifications

• Strong expertise in AI governance, model governance, risk, controls, or regulatory strategy within financial services or other highly regulated sectors.
• Deep understanding of the Swiss banking regulatory environment, especially the expectations that shape technology adoption, operational control, and supervisory readiness.
• Excellent knowledge of the EU AI Act, FINMA guidance and expectations, relevant UK regulatory frameworks, and the French regulatory context affecting AI deployment in cross‑border banking environments.
• Ability to provide thought leadership on AI regulation and compliance across Switzerland, the UK, and France, turning regulatory developments into practical guidance for clients and internal teams.
• Ability to identify and assess operational failure modes in AI, automation, and agentic workflows.
• Experience translating regulatory and governance requirements into practical frameworks, delivery controls, policies, or operating models.
• Strong understanding of modern AI use cases and architectures, including LLMs, agentic systems, decision‑support workflows, and automation pipelines.
• Collaborate closely with technical teams and embed governance into real delivery practices, rather than treating governance as a standalone advisory exercise.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to engage credibly with compliance, risk, legal, operations, technology, and senior client stakeholders.
• Commercial awareness and the ability to turn governance capability into a differentiated, trust‑building proposition.
• Consulting, advisory, or enterprise transformation experience is highly desirable.
• Familiarity with supervisory questions around explainability, accountability, human oversight, auditability, model boundaries, and operational resilience.
• Understanding of how governance frameworks need to evolve for AI agents, workflow orchestration, and semi‑autonomous decision processes.
• Experience creating reusable methodologies, accelerators, client playbooks, or go‑to‑market assets that can be tailored by customer and embedded into broader delivery or platform approaches.

Personal Attributes

• Pragmatic and highly credible.
• Structured thinker with strong regulatory judgment.
• Comfortable operating across business, risk, and technical teams.
• Delivery‑oriented and able to keep governance streamlined and usable.
• Commercially aware and able to connect trust with growth.
• Clear communicator who can simplify complex regulatory topics.
• Motivated by building scalable, repeatable frameworks in emerging domains.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary with a variable performance‑based bonus.
• Modern office in the heart of Zurich with access to an on‑site gym, sports classes (yoga, pilates, spinning) and healthy snacks.
• Hybrid working model – balance remote work with in‑office collaboration.
• Ongoing investment in professional development, with clear opportunities to take on leadership.
• 16 weeks fully paid maternity leave, with a flexible 50% return‑to‑work option in the first month (while receiving full salary) and 4 weeks fully paid leave for the second parent.
• Paid Halbtax travel card to support sustainable commuting.
• Diverse, international team across five locations, with regular team events and opportunities for cross‑border collaboration.
• Attractive referral bonuses for both candidate and client conversions.
• Culture grounded in inclusivity, curiosity, ownership, and collaboration—where your ideas shape the future of AI consulting.