Governed AI & Innovation Leader

Alvarez & Marsal; Tampa (FL); On-site; USD 150,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare plans

401(k) retirement plan

Flexible spending accounts

Life/AD&D insurance

Disability coverage

Paid time off

Job summary

Alvarez & Marsal is seeking a Governed Innovation Leader to design and run a global governance model for citizen development and AI initiatives within GAIKO. You will partner with business units, product, IT, risk and security to codify rules, approvals, and escalation paths.

You will define operating model, permissions, templates, and training, build a scalable program, and ensure visibility of libraries and assets.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in innovation programs, technology enablement, citizen‑development/low‑code governance, or a related discipline.
• Demonstrated ability to run requirements‑gathering with business stakeholders and translate their needs into process or platform design.
• Credible with technical and non‑technical BU audiences alike.
• Demonstrated experience designing and standing up a new program, operating model, or capability — not just running an existing one.
• Working technical fluency: comfortable with low‑code/no‑code platforms, modern AI tools, and enough architecture literacy to negotiate requirements credibly with IT and security teams.
• Strong cross‑functional coordination instincts — able to build jointly with product, IT, and security organizations without owning their processes.
• Credibility with practitioners: able to set and hold a gate while being seen as an enabler, not a blocker.

Responsibilities

• Design the governed-innovation operating model end to end: roles, review thresholds, build rules across low-code/no-code/full-code, promotion gate criteria, and intake and support flows.
• Work with the Business, product, IT, risk, legal and security organizations to stand up the model's foundations so the model is jointly built rather than imposed after the fact.
• Own the long‑term governed‑innovation vision and plan, incorporating input from business units and IT.
• Run and evolve the model over time: operate the promotion gate, own the rules, and keep them current as tools and the firm's risk posture change.
• Translate BU requirements into the design of the governed innovation environment and its supporting services.
• Define the key citizen‑development use case archetypes and, for each, the specific permissions, data access boundaries, tool tiers, and review requirements that apply.
• Build the decision logic so a builder can answer what am I allowed to build, with what tools, and what review do I need in minutes, not weeks.
• Maintain the use‑case and permission framework as new tools, patterns land.
• Create the program's starter kit: build templates, pre‑approved patterns, intake forms, review checklists, and documentation standards.
• Grow a library of shared components and vetted templates so builders start from approved patterns rather than blank pages — cutting both risk and review load.
• Define what the capability requires from the product and IT organizations — environments, identity and access, logging hooks, deployment paths — and drive those requirements to agreement with the owning teams.
• Define the capability’s organizational requirements — training completion, sponsorship, support model, escalation paths — and secure the commitments needed to meet them.
• Own the requirements roadmap as the capability scales: what the next tier of capability needs before it can safely be opened up.
• Define what must be visible on every build — who built it, what data it touches, what tools it uses, where it runs — and ensure it is instrumented from the pilot onward.
• Establish standing monitoring across governed builds (usage, drift, data‑handling flags, orphaned or abandoned assets) with clear escalation paths when something moves out of bounds.
• Stand up and maintain a registry of citizen‑built assets so nothing is built in the dark
• Feed the firm's enterprise AI inventory and flag duplicated capability across business units
• Create showcase channels so strong builds are seen, reused, and promoted rather than rebuilt.
• Define the minimum training bar required before anyone builds — safe use, data handling, tool boundaries
• Develop tiered builder pathways (consumer, builder, advanced builder) and certification for business‑unit builders, with refresher requirements tied to tool tiers
• Leverage the firm's existing enablement and adoption channels rather than building parallel ones.
• Deliver the pilot readout and an evidence‑based recommendation on whether and how the program scales
• Grow a federated community of business‑unit builders and champions — standards, shared components, and peer review — so quality scales without headcount scaling
• Align with the firm's deployment‑as‑a‑service capability so citizen builds have a sanctioned landing zone
• Build a capacity model for intake and review so governance doesn't become the bottleneck as demand grows.

Job description

Alvarez & Marsal is seeking a Governed Innovation Leader to design and run a global governance model for citizen development and AI initiatives within GAIKO. You will partner with business units, product, IT, risk and security to codify rules, approvals, and escalation paths.

You will define operating model, permissions, templates, and training, build a scalable program, and ensure visibility of libraries and assets.