AI Governance & Risk Specialist

Summit Tech Partners; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Summit Tech Partners is seeking an AI Governance & Risk Specialist to guide governance for enterprise AI initiatives. You will coordinate with business, technology leaders, and AI engineers to ensure proper review, documentation, monitoring, and governance throughout the AI lifecycle.

This role requires understanding AI technologies beyond compliance, with the ability to engage with developers, architects, and platform teams while improving responsible AI practices and policies across the

Qualifications

• Experience in AI governance, technology risk management, cybersecurity, or a related discipline.
• Familiarity with Microsoft Copilot, Copilot Studio, or similar AI ecosystems.
• Understanding of AI governance frameworks, policy management, and control implementation.
• Experience managing technology inventories, application portfolios, or governance repositories.
• Knowledge of data governance, privacy requirements, DLP, identity management, and access control principles.
• Experience creating operational reports, dashboards, KPIs, and governance metrics.
• Understanding of AI workflows, automation technologies, and intelligent agent concepts.
• Strong stakeholder management, communication, and organizational skills.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with both technical and non-technical teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead operational governance activities for AI applications, copilots, and agent-based solutions.
• Maintain and oversee the organization's inventory of AI assets, ensuring accurate documentation and ownership records.
• Evaluate new AI initiatives for security, privacy, compliance, and operational readiness requirements.
• Review data access, integrations, connectors, identity controls, and information management practices associated with AI solutions.
• Track governance activities, control effectiveness, risk classifications, approvals, and review cycles.
• Monitor AI adoption metrics, platform utilization, operational performance, and cost-management thresholds.
• Produce dashboards, reports, and executive summaries that provide visibility into the organization's AI portfolio.
• Partner with engineering teams throughout the AI development lifecycle to ensure governance requirements are incorporated early in the process.
• Support the development and continuous improvement of Responsible AI policies, standards, and procedures.
• Help establish scalable governance frameworks that enable innovation while managing enterprise risk.

Skills

AI governance

Technology risk management

Cybersecurity

Compliance

Stakeholder management

Communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Organizational skills

Tools

Microsoft Copilot

Copilot Studio

Power Platform

Job description

MUST WORK ON W2. NO SUBVENDORS, CORP-TO-CORP (C2C), CONTRACT-TO-HIRE (CTH), OR THIRD PARTIES.

About the Opportunity

Our client is expanding its enterprise AI capabilities and is seeking an AI Governance & Risk Specialist to help create the processes, oversight, and controls that support responsible AI adoption. This role will serve as a central point of coordination between business teams, technology leaders, and AI engineers to ensure AI solutions are properly reviewed, documented, monitored, and governed throughout their lifecycle.

This position is ideal for someone who understands AI technologies beyond a compliance perspective and can engage in meaningful conversations with developers, architects, and platform teams. The successful candidate will combine governance expertise with technical knowledge of AI, copilots, automation platforms, and intelligent agent solutions.

What You'll Do

• Lead operational governance activities for AI applications, copilots, and agent-based solutions.
• Maintain and oversee the organization's inventory of AI assets, ensuring accurate documentation and ownership records.
• Evaluate new AI initiatives for security, privacy, compliance, and operational readiness requirements.
• Review data access, integrations, connectors, identity controls, and information management practices associated with AI solutions.
• Track governance activities, control effectiveness, risk classifications, approvals, and review cycles.
• Monitor AI adoption metrics, platform utilization, operational performance, and cost-management thresholds.
• Produce dashboards, reports, and executive summaries that provide visibility into the organization's AI portfolio.
• Partner with engineering teams throughout the AI development lifecycle to ensure governance requirements are incorporated early in the process.
• Support the development and continuous improvement of Responsible AI policies, standards, and procedures.
• Help establish scalable governance frameworks that enable innovation while managing enterprise risk.

Qualifications

• Experience in AI governance, technology risk management, cybersecurity, compliance, or a related discipline.
• Familiarity with Microsoft Copilot, Copilot Studio, agentic AI platforms, or similar AI ecosystems.
• Understanding of AI governance frameworks, policy management, and control implementation.
• Experience managing technology inventories, application portfolios, or governance repositories.
• Knowledge of data governance, privacy requirements, DLP, identity management, and access control principles.
• Experience creating operational reports, dashboards, KPIs, and governance metrics.
• Understanding of AI workflows, automation technologies, and intelligent agent concepts.
• Strong stakeholder management, communication, and organizational skills.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with both technical and non-technical teams.

Preferred Experience

• Exposure to Microsoft Power Platform or low-code development environments.
• Experience supporting AI, cloud, or enterprise technology programs.
• Knowledge of AI lifecycle management and operational governance practices.
• Familiarity with enterprise application ecosystems and modern cloud platforms.
• Understanding of how AI assistants, copilots, and intelligent agents are developed, configured, and deployed.

Ideal Candidate

We're looking for someone who can bridge governance and technology. The ideal candidate is comfortable discussing AI controls and risk management while also understanding how AI solutions are designed, implemented, and maintained.

This individual will help provide visibility and accountability across the organization's AI environment by ensuring every solution has appropriate ownership, governance, security controls, and operational oversight before being deployed into production. Their work will help create a scalable foundation for responsible AI adoption across the enterprise.