Senior Manager, Responsible AI

Canada Life; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonuses

Learning & development

Pension plan

Wellbeing initiatives

Job summary

Irish Life, within the AI Acceleration Hub, seeks a Senior Manager to lead the technical side of its Responsible AI framework. You will translate principles, regulatory expectations and governance standards into practical technical controls and reusable delivery patterns.

You will work with delivery squads, platform teams and control functions to enable safe design, testing, production release and monitoring of AI initiatives, building a small specialist capability over time.

Job description

Full Time Permanent position Hybrid role based in our City Centre offices

What we offer

We have embraced a hybrid working model for most of our positions, which means that you can enjoy a balanced approach of working from home for part of the week and working from the office for the remainder of the week.

We offer a comprehensive benefits package including competitive salaries and bonuses, robust Learning and Development support, excellent Defined Contribution pension and comprehensive Wellbeing initiatives and support to name but a few.

Further details on our benefits package can be accessed here Benefits (life-careers.com)

About the AI Acceleration Hub

Irish Life is accelerating its use of Artificial Intelligence to deliver better customer outcomes, improve operational effectiveness, unlock new sources of value, and strengthen the organisation's competitive capability.

The AI Acceleration Hub plays a central role in enabling this ambition by supporting the identification, development, validation and productionisation of AI-enabled solutions across the Group.

As AI adoption increases, it is critical that solutions are developed and deployed in a controlled, transparent, explainable, secure and responsible manner.

This requires more than policy and governance oversight alone. It requires a practical technical Responsible AI capability that can be embedded into how AI applications are assessed, designed, tested, released, monitored, changed and evidenced in live operation.

The AI Acceleration Hub is therefore establishing a Responsible AI technical capability that will help delivery teams move faster and more safely through reusable patterns, tooling-enabled controls, evidence standards, evaluation approaches, runtime guardrails and monitoring practices.

The capability will work alongside existing governance, risk, architecture, legal, compliance, privacy and security processes, translating Responsible AI expectations into practical delivery controls and engineering practices.

The Job Reporting to the Head of Enablement Layer, AI Acceleration Hub, the Senior Manager, Responsible AI will lead the technical side of Irish Life's Responsible AI framework for Hub-led and Hub-enabled AI solutions.

Working closely with the AI Governance Lead and relevant control functions, the role will translate Responsible AI principles, regulatory expectations, risk requirements and governance standards into practical technical controls, reusable delivery patterns, evaluation frameworks, evidence models, monitoring approaches and revalidation processes.

This is not intended to duplicate or replace existing AI governance ownership.

The role will help define how AI applications move safely from idea through design, build, testing, approval, production release, live monitoring and material change.

It will provide technical leadership across Responsible AI tooling and implementation patterns, including AI evaluation, model and prompt control, retrieval and grounding controls, runtime guardrails, telemetry, traceability, evidence capture, monitoring, exception handling and production supportability.

The successful candidate will work through and with delivery squads, platform teams, architecture, engineering, data, risk, compliance, legal, data protection, security, audit, procurement and external partners. They will not need to personally build every control, but they must have enough technical depth to understand what good looks like, challenge implementation choices, guide delivery teams, shape tooling decisions and ensure Responsible AI controls are implemented in a way that is practical, scalable and credible.

Over time, the role will build and lead a small specialist Responsible AI technical capability, expected to grow to approximately two to three people, providing hands-on enablement, technical assurance, reusable patterns and delivery support to AI squads across the organisation.

Key Accountabilities

Lead the technical Responsible AI framework - Own and evolve the technical framework, translating Responsible AI principles and governance requirements into practical controls, patterns, t