Associate Vice President, Model & AI Governance

003 Humana Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 189,000 - 261,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus incentive plan

Job summary

Humana, Inc. seeks a senior leader to own enterprise model and AI risk governance, including risk appetite, validation, monitoring, and documentation within a highly regulated healthcare context.

You will lead cross‑functional collaboration with Cybersecurity, Privacy, Legal, Compliance, Data Governance, and Technology Risk, and report to executive management and board committees.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in risk management, AI governance, or related field.
• 15+ years of progressive experience in risk management and AI governance.
• Experience operating at executive level within regulated healthcare.
• Strong understanding of AI/ML, generative AI, data governance.
• Knowledge of AI regulatory and governance frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Own and enhance the enterprise model governance framework from identification to retirement.
• Define model risk appetite, taxonomy, and minimum control standards.
• Provide effective challenge over development, validation, and monitoring.
• Lead AI risk governance committees and report to executive bodies.
• Develop Responsible AI framework and standards for fairness, explainability, privacy, and safety.
• Partner with Cybersecurity, Privacy, Legal, Compliance, and Data Governance on AI risks.

Skills

Executive leadership

AI governance

Risk management

Data governance

Regulatory knowledge

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Job description

Key Responsibilities

• Own and continuously enhance the enterprise model governance framework, including model identification, inventory, classification, risk tiering, development, validation, approval, implementation, monitoring, change management, retirement and documentation.
• Define model risk appetite, risk taxonomy, minimum control standards, governance requirements and escalation thresholds.
• Provide effective challenge over model development, validation, implementation, monitoring and performance.
• Oversee the enterprise model inventory and ensure appropriate ownership, accountability, documentation, and risk classification.
• Establish standards for model validation, including conceptual soundness, performance, stability, data quality, bias, explainability and ongoing monitoring.
• Ensure appropriate governance over third‑party and externally developed models.
• Develop and oversee the organization’s Responsible AI framework and principles.
• Establish governance standards addressing fairness, bias, transparency, explainability, accountability, privacy, human oversight, safety, security, and appropriate use of AI.
• Establish processes for AI use‑case risk intake, risk assessment, approval, monitoring, and ongoing oversight, working closely with other AI governance functions to simplify and streamline processes.
• Develop standards for responsible use of generative AI, large language models, AI agents, automated decision‑making and other emerging technologies, partnering with other stakeholders to ensure cross‑functional alignment.
• Establish governance mechanisms to identify and address unintended consequences, model drift, hallucination, discrimination, explainability limitations, and other AI‑specific risks.
• Own the enterprise AI risk management framework and associated governance processes.
• Establish governance requirements and oversight for the enterprise AI inventory, ensuring AI applications and use cases are appropriately inventoried, classified, risk‑rated, assigned accountable ownership, and monitored throughout their lifecycle.
• Develop AI risk assessments and approval requirements proportionate to the potential impact of technology.
• Establish ongoing monitoring of AI performance, effectiveness, risk indicators, incidents, exceptions and emerging threats.
• Partner with cybersecurity, Privacy, Legal, Compliance, Data Governance, and Technology Risk to address AI‑specific risks.
• Establish governance for the use of external AI providers, foundation models, APIs, AI platforms, and third‑party AI solutions.
• Establish policies, standards, procedures, control requirements, and governance committees necessary to manage model and AI risk.
• Define clear first‑line ownership and second‑line oversight responsibilities.
• Develop, maintain, and monitor enterprise model and AI risk appetite metrics, tolerance thresholds, and key risk indicators to support enterprise risk reporting and decision‑making.
• Lead Model Risk and AI Risk Governance committees and provide regular reporting to executive management, Risk Committees, and Board Committees regarding model and AI risk exposure, emerging risks, policy compliance, significant incidents, exceptions, and risk trends.
• Lead a hybrid team of internal associates and specialized external partners responsible for model validation, governance administration, AI risk assessments, monitoring, and assurance activities.
• Promote a culture of responsible AI and sound model governance through training, awareness, stakeholder engagement, and enterprise‑wide governance education programs.
• Use your skills to make an impact.

**Bachelor’s degree required 15+ years of progressive experience in risk management, model risk management, AI governance, technology risk, data governance, analytics, compliance, internal audit or other disciplines. Significant experience leading enterprise‑wide model governance, AI governance, responsible AI, or technology risk programs. Demonstrated experience operating at an executive level within a complex, highly regulated organization. Healthcare experience strongly preferred. Strong understanding of AI/ML technologies, generative AI, model development and validation, data governance, and technology risk. Knowledge of emerging AI regulatory and governance frameworks and applicable healthcare regulatory requirements. Strong understanding of enterprise risk management, internal controls, issue management, and risk appetite frameworks. Demonstrated experience presenting complex risk, technology, analytics, and AI governance topics to executive leadership and Board‑level audiences. *Preference of this position to be located in Washington DC, New York or Louisville, KY. 25% Travel*

Work at Home Requirements

• At minimum, a download speed of 25Mbps and an upload speed of 10Mbps is required; wireless, wired cable or DSL connection is suggested.
• In certain roles, the minimum recommended internet speed required by Humana may not be sufficient for business needs. Humana reserves the right to require associates to upgrade their internet service if necessary.
• Work from a dedicated space lacking ongoing interruptions to protect member PHI / HIPAA information.

Travel

• While this is a remote position, occasional travel to Humana's offices for training or meetings may be required.

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Pay Range

The compensation range below reflects a good faith estimate of starting base pay for full time (40 hours per week) employment at the time of posting. The pay range may be higher or lower based on geographic location and individual pay will vary based on demonstrated job related skills, knowledge, experience, education, certifications, etc. $189,400 - $260,500 per year This job is eligible for a bonus incentive plan. This incentive opportunity is based upon company and/or individual performance.

Description of Benefits

• Humana, Inc. and its affiliated subsidiaries (collectively, “Humana”) offers competitive benefits that support whole-person well-being.
• Associate benefits are designed to encourage personal wellness and smart healthcare decisions for you and your family while also knowing your life extends outside of work.
• Among our benefits, Humana provides medical, dental and vision benefits, 401(k) retirement savings plan, time off (including paid time off, company and personal holidays, paid parental and caregiver leave), short-term and long-term disability, life insurance and many other opportunities.

Application Deadline

11-19-2026

About us

Humana: Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) is a leading U.S. healthcare company. Through our Humana insurance services and our CenterWell healthcare services, we make it easier for the millions of people we serve to achieve their best health – delivering the care and service they need, when they need it. These efforts are leading to a better quality of life for people with Medicare and Medicaid, families, individuals, military service personnel, and communities at large. Learn more about what we offer atHumana.comand atCenterWell.com.

Equal Opportunity Employer

It is the policy of Humana not to discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability or protected veteran status. It is also the policy of Humana to take affirmative action, in compliance with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and VEVRAA, to employ and to advance in employment individuals with disability or protected veteran status, and to base all employment decisions only on valid job requirements. This policy shall apply to all employment actions, including but not limited to recruitment, hiring, upgrading, promotion, transfer, demotion, layoff, recall, termination, rates of pay or other forms of compensation and selection for training, including apprenticeship, at all levels of employment.