AI Risk & Governance Lead — Enterprise Framework

KeyBank; United States; Hybrid; USD 116,000 - 216,000; Full time

Job summary

KeyBank is seeking an experienced leader to support the enterprise AI Risk Management Governance program. This role executes and enhances the AI risk framework, governance controls, and regulatory oversight across business and technology functions.

The position coordinates risk, compliance, legal, privacy, cybersecurity, and third-party risk management to ensure AI use cases are identified, assessed, governed, monitored, and deployed per enterprise standards.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end AI risk assessments including inherent and residual risk evaluation, independent review and challenge, and deployment readiness.
• Partner across business, technology, risk, compliance, legal, privacy, cybersecurity, and third-party functions to identify and address AI risks.
• Maintain governance records, reporting, ongoing monitoring, reassessments, remediation actions, and risk decisions.
• Own business requirements and enhancements for the AI risk management workflow within an enterprise GRC platform.
• Partner with technology teams to design workflows, scoring, reporting, evidence management, and automation capabilities.
• Lead testing, validation, implementation, and production readiness to maintain a reliable system of record for AI risk decisions.
• Lead implementation of a recognized financial services AI risk management framework and align its requirements to enterprise processes.
• Coordinate control mapping, gap assessments, ownership, remediation, and evidence standards across business and risk functions.
• Translate framework requirements into practical policies, procedures, controls, implementation plans, and leadership reporting.
• Guide the design and implementation of AI-enabled governance, risk assessment, and workflow automation capabilities.
• Partner with technology teams and external providers to automate evidence collection, control mapping, documentation, and assessment activities.
• Establish governance requirements, decision gates, human oversight, testing, and monitoring for agentic AI solutions.
• Advance the AI governance strategy, operating model, policies, standards, and accountability structure.
• Simplify governance processes and reduce duplication across enterprise risk and control functions.
• Develop meaningful metrics, risk indicators, dashboards, inventory controls, and management reporting to drive continuous improvement.
• Serve as primary liaison across risk disciplines and first-line business partners.
• Facilitate working groups, governance forums, and operating committee meetings.
• Build strong relationships with senior leaders across Risk Management, Technology, Compliance, Legal, and business functions.
• Drive accountability for risk remediation and control implementation activities.

Job description

KeyBank is seeking an experienced leader to support the enterprise AI Risk Management Governance program. This role executes and enhances the AI risk framework, governance controls, and regulatory oversight across business and technology functions.

The position coordinates risk, compliance, legal, privacy, cybersecurity, and third-party risk management to ensure AI use cases are identified, assessed, governed, monitored, and deployed per enterprise standards.