AI Governance & Risk Specialist

Vanguard; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Vanguard is seeking a governance-focused professional to navigate AI governance, risk, and policy requirements across technology operations and enterprise AI programmes. You will coordinate with risk, legal, privacy, and compliance teams to drive responsible AI adoption, ensuring policy alignment and timely decision-making.

Hybrid working arrangement; role involves coordinating across multiple stakeholders to manage governance artefacts, reports, and change delivery while maintaining regulatory

Qualifications

• Experience navigating governance and risk processes in regulated financial services or technology environments.
• Ability to cooperate with sponsors, technology teams, architects, risk practitioners, and control functions to drive decisions.
• Experience preparing governance materials and executive reporting (briefing packs, risk summaries, committee papers, minutes).
• Demonstrable experience operating within governance forums and committees, supporting agenda management and risk reporting.
• Strong programme management or PMO skills coordinating complex workstreams and dependencies.

Responsibilities

• Liaise with AI and Generative AI use case owners.
• Participate in intake, assessment, approval, and implementation processes.
• Support use case classification and determine governance pathway.
• Improve submission quality to reduce rework and accelerate approvals.
• Cooperate with stakeholders on AI governance, risk, and policy requirements.
• Coordinate technology governance forums, risk committees, and operating reviews.
• Prepare agendas, briefing packs, and executive summaries.
• Capture decisions, actions, risks, and dependencies through closure.
• Track KPIs, OHIs and OKRs to monitor delivery health.

Skills

Governance coordination

Regulatory compliance

Risk management

Stakeholder management

PMO / program management

Job description

Vanguard is seeking a governance-focused professional to navigate AI governance, risk, and policy requirements across technology operations and enterprise AI programmes. You will coordinate with risk, legal, privacy, and compliance teams to drive responsible AI adoption, ensuring policy alignment and timely decision-making.

Hybrid working arrangement; role involves coordinating across multiple stakeholders to manage governance artefacts, reports, and change delivery while maintaining regulatory