Responsible AI Policy & Governance Lead (Industrial AI)

AVEVA; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

AVEVA seeks a Technical Policy Manager to lead responsible AI deployment and governance. You will translate principles into practical guidance, develop policy and enable scalable learning, while coordinating cross-functionally to ensure compliant AI across products and operations.

You will engage with customers, regulators, and industry bodies to shape governance, standards and assurance artefacts; and drive adoption across AVEVA’s engineering and product teams in a hybrid London/Cambridge

Qualifications

• 3–5+ years in technical policy, responsible AI governance, AI assurance/risk, trust & safety, security policy, or data governance roles.
• Proven externally facing engagement with customers, regulators, industry groups or standards bodies.
• Strategic leadership in Responsible AI and policy development with ability to influence internal policies.
• Experience in regulated/high-assurance environments and familiarity with audits, controls and evidence.
• Technical and deployment fluency to critique AI/ML technologies and align with ethical guidelines.
• Strong communication and advisory skills to convey concepts to engineers and executives.
• Collaborative leadership across matrix organisations to drive change.
• Project management skills to lead cross-functional initiatives.
• Experience producing customer-facing assurance artefacts (control matrices, evidence packs).
• Knowledge of OT environments and industrial cybersecurity considerations; familiarity with NIST ISO guidance.

Responsibilities

• Translate AVEVA’s Responsible AI Principles into practical guidance, procedures, standards and tools.
• Define governance policies, decision rights, review gates and lifecycle controls.
• Coordinate with Security, Risk/Compliance, Sustainability, Legal and commercial teams to maintain a coherent governance approach.
• Socialise and embed Responsible AI principles across the organisation.
• Lead learning strategies and enablement programmes for Responsible AI.
• Engage with customers, regulators and industry groups to advocate responsible AI practices.
• Embed governance into product delivery and AVEVA’s AI development lifecycle.
• Set deployment criteria, human oversight, rollback and incident response coordination.
• Establish KPIs and feed learnings back into internal standards.
• Support AVEVA Operations with responsible AI adoption and governance guidance.

Skills

External engagement

Regulated sector experience

Policy development

Technical policy

Deployment governance

Communication

Cross-functional leadership

Project management

Standards & compliance

Risk & governance

Job description

AVEVA seeks a Technical Policy Manager to lead responsible AI deployment and governance. You will translate principles into practical guidance, develop policy and enable scalable learning, while coordinating cross-functionally to ensure compliant AI across products and operations.

You will engage with customers, regulators, and industry bodies to shape governance, standards and assurance artefacts; and drive adoption across AVEVA’s engineering and product teams in a hybrid London/Cambridge