Senior AI Governance Leader | Risk, Compliance & Strategy

NXP Semiconductors NV; Eindhoven; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

NXP Semiconductors, a global leader in secure connectivity and AI-enabled innovations, invites a Senior AI Governance Specialist to join the Intelligent Transformation Office. You will shape and operationalize enterprise AI governance across the organization, balancing innovation with risk and compliance.

In this role you will partner with AI engineers, data scientists, lawyers, privacy, security and compliance teams, guiding governance from ideation to deployment.

Qualifications

• A master's degree or equivalent qualification in AI: Engineering, Information Technology, Law, Risk Management or a related field.
• 15-20 years of experience in global companies, in industry or services.
• Realizations in one or more relevant areas such as AI/ML Governance.

Responsibilities

• AI use-case governance: Coordinate inputs from legal, risk, privacy, product and technical teams. Identify, classify, assess and monitor AI use cases across their lifecycle, aligned with business and technology roadmaps.
• AI risk management: Preform AI risk assessments, collate risk reports and monitoring.
• AI Governance framework: Develop, continuously improve and monitor adherence to AI Governance policies, standards, controls and practical guidance.
• AI inventory and classification: Support the enterprise AI inventory with clear ownership, documentation, risk tiering and regulatory classification.
• Lifecycle governance: Embed proportionate governance from ideation and procurement through deployment, monitoring and retirement.
• Regulatory operationalization: Translate evolving AI regulations and standards into actionable policies, controls and evidence requirements.
• Generative and emerging AI: Assess and adapt governance for Generative AI, foundation models, LLMs, RAG and AI agents.
• Governance decisions and escalation: Facilitate governance reviews and ensure decisions, risk acceptances, exceptions and escalations are transparent and documented. Assists with governance and impact assessments and control mapping. Escalate identified governance gaps, risks or issues to senior management.
• Monitoring and reporting: Track AI Governance KPIs and KRIs, control effectiveness and remediation, and report insights to relevant forums.
• AI Governance tooling: Leverage governance tooling (selection, implementation, improvement) and advise stakeholders on its effective use.
• Assurance and evidence: Ensure traceability and documentation that demonstrate governance decisions, controls and regulatory readiness for auditability & defensibility
• AI literacy and adoption: Collaborate and contribute towards Responsible AI awareness and literacy across NXP through training, guidance and engagement.
• Continuous improvement: Evolve NXP's AI Governance practices and operating model as regulation, technology and industry practice develop.

Skills

AI governance

Risk management

Regulatory compliance

Stakeholder engagement

Education

Master's degree in AI/related field

Job description

NXP Semiconductors, a global leader in secure connectivity and AI-enabled innovations, invites a Senior AI Governance Specialist to join the Intelligent Transformation Office. You will shape and operationalize enterprise AI governance across the organization, balancing innovation with risk and compliance.

In this role you will partner with AI engineers, data scientists, lawyers, privacy, security and compliance teams, guiding governance from ideation to deployment.