Chief Responsible AI & Governance

Inizio Partners; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 250,000 - 360,000; Full time

Job summary

Inizio Partners is seeking a Head of Responsible AI in New York to lead the enterprise-wide Responsible & Secure AI program. You will report to the GC and CIO, maturing governance, security, and regulatory compliance across AI initiatives.

The role bridges technical innovation with legal safeguards, enforcing a dual mandate to accelerate AI adoption while minimizing risk, tying together policy, architecture, and governance across the firm.

Qualifications

• Experience: 12+ years of total professional experience in technical, legal, or risk leadership, with at least 5+ years in AI/ML governance, security, or ethics.
• Hybrid expert: discuss transformer architectures and liability/indemnification with legal teams.
• Regulatory fluency: familiarity with NIST AI RMF, ISO 42001, EU AI Act.
• Operational depth: governance-as-a-service in global, regulated environments.

Responsibilities

• Strategic Leadership & Governance: Define the 3-year maturity roadmap for Responsible & Secure AI and lead AI Governance Committee.
• AI Security & Defense: Oversee red-teaming, secure lifecycle, data sovereignty, and shadow AI mitigation.
• Regulatory & Ethical Compliance: Ensure compliance with EU AI Act, NIST RMF, ISO 42001; promote fairness and HITL requirements.
• Client & Operations Enablement: Enable client workflows, vet providers, and ensure audits and governance readiness.
• Capability Building & Culture: Evangelize responsible AI, build teams of governance leads, risk specialists, and ethics experts.
• Oversee readiness for internal/external assessments and client-driven AI governance evaluations

Skills

AI governance

AI ethics

Regulatory compliance

Risk management

Security

LLMOps

Education

Bachelor's in CS/Data Science/Law/Ethics

Tools

LLMOps

privacy-by-design

vector databases

NeMo

LlamaGuard

AI BOM

Job description

Inizio Partners is seeking a Head of Responsible AI in New York to lead the enterprise-wide Responsible & Secure AI program. You will report to the GC and CIO, maturing governance, security, and regulatory compliance across AI initiatives.

The role bridges technical innovation with legal safeguards, enforcing a dual mandate to accelerate AI adoption while minimizing risk, tying together policy, architecture, and governance across the firm.