Head of Governed Innovation & AI Enablement

Alvarez & Marsal; New York (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare plans

401(k) retirement plan

Paid time off

Job summary

Alvarez & Marsal seeks a Governed Innovation Leader to design and run the global governed‑innovation program, partnering with product, IT, risk, legal and security. You will define the operating model, permissions, and templates to enable safe citizen‑development at scale, across business units and global teams.

The role sits in GAIKO, collaborating with a cross‑functional group to create scalable, auditable processes and a clear, repeatable path from idea to production.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in innovation programs, technology enablement, citizen‑development/low‑code governance, or a related discipline.
• 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.
• Engage directly with BU leaders and practitioners to understand their innovation needs, current workarounds, and what's blocking them today.
• 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.

Skills

Innovation programs

Citizen‑development

Low-code governance

Stakeholder management

Technical fluency

Job description

Alvarez & Marsal seeks a Governed Innovation Leader to design and run the global governed‑innovation program, partnering with product, IT, risk, legal and security. You will define the operating model, permissions, and templates to enable safe citizen‑development at scale, across business units and global teams.

The role sits in GAIKO, collaborating with a cross‑functional group to create scalable, auditable processes and a clear, repeatable path from idea to production.