AI Governance Leader: Enterprise CoE & Risk Oversight

Veritas Search Group; Tustin (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Veritas Search Group seeks an experienced AI Governance and Center of Excellence Lead to establish and mature an enterprise AI governance program near Tustin, CA. The role partners with security, risk, compliance, legal, data, and business teams to implement policies, processes, and controls across the organization.

This hands-on leadership position focuses on building sustainable governance capabilities, coaching stakeholders, managing active AI use cases, and transitioning ownership to the

Qualifications

• Significant experience establishing and leading AI governance, cybersecurity governance, risk-management, compliance, or related enterprise programs.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement an enterprise AI governance operating model, including the program charter, roles and responsibilities, policies, standards, intake processes, prioritization criteria, and lifecycle-management procedures.
• Establish structured processes for identifying, evaluating, approving, deploying, monitoring, and retiring AI systems and use cases.
• Lead or co-lead recurring AI Center of Excellence meetings and coordinate activities across technical, security, compliance, risk, and business teams.
• Develop AI use-case intake and scoring methodologies based on business value, regulatory requirements, security exposure, data sensitivity, and operational risk.
• Conduct AI risk, security, privacy, and compliance reviews for vendor-provided AI capabilities, internally developed applications, and proposed business use cases.
• Partner with architecture and engineering teams to evaluate AI system design, data flows, human oversight, model security, and deployment controls.
• Develop and maintain AI policies, standards, playbooks, risk registers, model inventories, governance dashboards, and supporting documentation.
• Incorporate governance workflows into enterprise platforms such as ServiceNow, Jira, Confluence, or similar tools.
• Coach internal team members through structured meetings, working sessions, retrospectives, and capability assessments.
• Assign clear ownership for governance processes and jointly develop deliverables with the employees who will maintain them.
• Identify and address common program challenges, including disconnected tools, unclear accountability, excessive reliance on individual contributors, intake backlogs, and limited stakeholder participation.
• Create a structured transition plan that enables internal teams to independently manage the governance program.
• Track program performance, document decisions, maintain audit evidence, and report governance activities to executive stakeholders.
• Stay current on emerging AI regulations, governance standards, security risks, and responsible AI practices.

Skills

AI governance

Enterprise program leadership

Risk management

Compliance frameworks

Policy development

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

Veritas Search Group seeks an experienced AI Governance and Center of Excellence Lead to establish and mature an enterprise AI governance program near Tustin, CA. The role partners with security, risk, compliance, legal, data, and business teams to implement policies, processes, and controls across the organization.

This hands-on leadership position focuses on building sustainable governance capabilities, coaching stakeholders, managing active AI use cases, and transitioning ownership to the