AI Governance Lead Analyst

Cambium Assessment; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first culture

Job summary

Cambium Assessment, Inc. is seeking a senior cybersecurity leader to drive AI governance, risk assessment, and secure development across our software, cloud, and enterprise IT programs. This role coordinates cross-functional teams to align security strategy with business goals and regulatory requirements.

You will lead efforts on AI security, privacy, audits, and compliance with ISO standards, NIST, and AI Act frameworks, delivering measurable improvements and actionable insights to executives.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in cybersecurity field.
• Experience reviewing and advising AI/ML architectures.
• Knowledge of AI governance conforming to ISO 42001, NIST, EU AI Act.
• Experience leading cross-functional security projects.
• Experience participating in internal/third-party audits.
• Skilled in architecting cybersecurity solutions.
• Experience monitoring SOC security events.
• Hands-on software development involvement (dev/test/review).
• Risk assessments and gap analyses to reduce tech risk.
• Proven project management for technical programs.
• Strong cross-team communication with executives and SMEs.
• Ability to multitask in dynamic environment.
• Experience implementing AI cybersecurity controls.
• Experience with AI threat modeling and secure development.

Responsibilities

• Lead AI governance, risk assessments, and secure AI deployment.
• Review requirements against AI usage and regulatory obligations.
• Advise internal teams on AI security strategy.
• Plan and manage multiple improvement projects from requirements to deployment.
• Create a structure to manage AI agents and their activities.
• Automate AI governance with system management tools.
• Coordinate with multiple teams to translate strategy into technical requirements.
• Respond to information requests from executives, proposal, delivery teams.
• Support AIMS committee activities.
• Ensure programs meet ISO 42001, ISO 27001, ISO 27018, privacy laws, ISO 9001, GovRAMP, FedRAMP, NIST 800, SOC, and CIS Top Controls.
• Contribute to independent audits.
• Develop training programs and campaigns.
• Conduct internal reviews and risk assessments and report to senior management.
• Recommend programs to address security/privacy risks.

Skills

Cybersecurity

AI governance

Risk assessment

Security operations

Communication

Education

Master's degree in Information Security

CISSP certification

GIAC Cloud Security Certification

AWS Security Certification

Tools

SOC monitoring

Job description

Job Overview:

The ideal candidate will use their well-rounded technology and security background to effectively lead and coordinate among teams responsible for our educational testing business processes, notably our established teams that provide software development, security testing and monitoring, cloud-based infrastructure, enterprise IT support, and project/customer management.

Job Responsibilities:

• Leading our internal programs related to AI governance, risk assessments, and the secure development and implementation of generative and agentic AI systems.
• Reviewing customer requirements and regulatory obligations against our current and planned AI usage.
• Advising internal stakeholders and teams on AI security and strategy decisions.
• Plan and manage multiple improvement projects from requirements phase through deployment/implementation. Tasks need to meet both customer-required milestones and benchmarks related to security, privacy, and ethical use.
• Create a structure to manage AI agents and their activities
• Automate AI governance by identifying and establishing system management tools.
• Coordinating with multiple internal functional teams to translate strategic objectives into implementable technical requirements and verifiable results.
• Responding to requests for information from executives, proposal teams, delivery teams, and external third parties.
• Support AIMS committee activities and provide solutions.
• Ensuring all programs conform to our high bar for security standards. This includes but is not limited to conformance with ISO 42001, ISO 27001, ISO 27018, Privacy laws, ISO 9001, GovRAMP, FedRAMP, NIST 800, SOC, and CIS Top Controls.
• Contribute to independent audits of our organization by third-party experts.
• Responsible for training programs necessary for various teams and roles. Maintains and improves training campaigns and content.
• Conducts internal reviews and risk assessments and reports out to senior management regarding observations and metrics - both as an ongoing process and as-needed.
• Assists in continual improvement by examining our current security and privacy posture and practices, identifying risks or gaps, and recommending programs to address them.

Job Requirements:

• Minimum 10 years hands-on experience in the Cybersecurity field
• Demonstrated working experience: Reviewing and advising AI and machine learning architectures
• Advising on the risks, trends, and threat environment surrounding AI, machine learning, and emerging technologies. This includes AI Governance and Risk Assessment conforming to ISO 42001, NIST, and the EU AI Act
• Leading projects or strategic initiatives that span across multiple cross-functional teams responsible for data protection, infrastructure, security operations, and application security
• Complying with security and privacy frameworks and industry best practices, including direct participation in internal and third-party audits
• Architecting Cybersecurity solutions
• Monitoring security events in a SOC environment
• Working with software development teams hands-on either as a developer, tester, or reviewer of critical milestones.
• Reducing technology-based risks by conducting risk assessments, gap analysis, improvement plans and tracking associated actions to closure
• Developing and executing project management plans for technical projects.
• Effectively communicating and coordinating with senior business leaders, subject matter experts, technical leaders and third party consultants.
• Delivering results and meeting deadlines independently and by collaborating as part of a team
• Ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks in a dynamic environment
• Experience implementing and managing AI cybersecurity controls
• Experience with AI threat modeling, security assessments, and/or secure development

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's Degree or higher in Information Security, Cybersecurity, computer science, engineering, Information Systems or related technical field
• Extensive and deep knowledge of AI Governance, Security and Privacy frameworks, standards, and industry best practices.
• Strong, professional. and effective communication skills and interpersonal skills to effectively and accurately communicate with a variety of teams ranging from highly detailed discussions with technical and subject matter experts to executive-level communications required for senior leaders and decisionmakers.
• Extensive and deep knowledge of tools and techniques used to protect against cybersecurity attacks and respond to incidents.
• Information Security Certifications such as CISSP, GIAC Cloud Security, AWS Security
• Relevant AI training and certifications related to governance, risk analysis and agentic security
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To learn more about our organization and the exciting work we do, visit https://www.cambiumassessment.com/

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