AI Governance Specialist

First-Command-Financial-Services; Fort Worth (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

First Command is seeking an experienced AI Governance Leader to reside in Fort Worth, TX. The role oversees enterprise governance across AI risk, compliance, privacy, and controls, and leads governance teams to ensure consistent execution of programs.

You will define standards, drive maturity, and deliver actionable insights to executive leadership while guiding cross-functional governance reviews and decision forums.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of leadership in AI governance, risk, or compliance.
• Proven ability to drive cross-functional governance initiatives.
• Strong executive communication to stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end AI governance operating model.
• Lead governance intake, risk triage, approvals, and escalation.
• Establish standards, procedures, and metrics.
• Drive governance maturity and continuous improvement.
• Oversee incident management and regulatory alignment.

Skills

AI governance

Leadership

Risk management

Compliance

Executive communication

Tools

Governance platforms

Monitoring tooling

Job description

How will your role impact First Command?

Provides enterprise leadership across AI governance operations, risk and controls management, and governance engineering. Oversees governance team members, drives governance strategy, and ensures consistent execution of governance programs across the organization.

What will the employee do in this role?

AI Governance Operations Leadership

• Own the end-to-end AI governance operating model.
• Lead governance intake, risk triage, approvals, exceptions, and escalation processes.
• Establish governance standards, procedures, and operating metrics.
• Drive governance maturity and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Deliver governance reporting and insights to executive leadership.
• Ensure consistency of governance decisions across AI portfolios.
• Lead enterprise AI risk assessment and control programs.
• Define governance policies, standards, and risk frameworks.
• Approve risk treatment strategies and remediation approaches.
• Oversee incident management, exception reviews, and compliance activities.
• Ensure regulatory, legal, privacy, security, and responsible AI requirements are addressed.
• Guide cross-functional governance reviews and decision forums.

AI Governance Engineering Leadership

• Define the governance technology roadmap and automation strategy.
• Sponsor implementation of governance tools, monitoring, and reporting platforms.
• Oversee model governance, prompt governance, traceability, and lifecycle monitoring capabilities.
• Ensure governance controls are automated and measurable where possible.
• Drive adoption of governance metrics, controls, and monitoring frameworks.
• Review effectiveness of governance technology solutions.
• Lead, coach, and mentor AI Governance Specialists.
• Assign and prioritize team workload and governance activities.
• Establish performance goals and development plans for team members.
• Build governance capabilities and operational maturity across the organization.
• Act as the primary escalation point for governance decisions and conflicts.
• Represent the AI governance program with executive stakeholders and control partners.

Expected Scope

• Leads governance programs and governance personnel.
• Makes complex governance and risk decisions.
• Influences executive and organizational strategy.

Who will you lead?

• Lead, coach, and mentor AI Governance Specialists.
• Assign and prioritize team workload and governance activities.
• Establish performance goals and development plans for team members.
• Build governance capabilities and operational maturity across the organization.
• Act as the primary escalation point for governance decisions and conflicts.
• Represent the AI governance program with executive stakeholders and control partners.

What skills & qualifications do you need?

Education

Work Experience

• 4+ years of experience in AI governance, enterprise risk, compliance, security, model governance, or technology governance.
• Strong executive communication and stakeholder management experience.

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Demonstrated leadership of governance programs and cross-functional initiatives.
• Deep expertise in Responsible AI, risk management, governance operations, and governance technology platforms.

First Command does not discriminate in the recruiting of Financial Advisors onthe basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, marital status,disability, age or veteran status. No information solicited by First Commandfrom you is intended to be used in a discriminatory manner. All informationprovided by you will be reviewed carefully, but the receipt of an Advisorapplication or other information does not imply that you will be offered theopportunity to enter into a Financial Advisor/Agent Agreement with FirstCommand.