Remote AI Security Governance Specialist

UnitedHealth Group; Eden Prairie (MN); Remote; Confidential; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits

401k contribution

Equity stock purchase

Job summary

UnitedHealth Group seeks an AI Security Governance Operations Specialist within Optum Technology to drive daily governance of AI security, controls, and compliance. You will monitor usage, evidence, and risk, coordinating with owners and engineering teams to enforce policies and resolve issues.

In this role you will triage alerts, support incident response, and maintain audits while collaborating with platform, application, identity, and vendor teams to close gaps and deliver secure AI adoption.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in security operations, governance operations, risk management, or related roles.
• 2+ years documenting operational activities, incident findings, or evidence for audit/compliance reporting.
• 1 year experience with AI governance, security monitoring, access controls, data protection, incident response, and change management processes.

Responsibilities

• Monitor AI solution registration, ownership, lifecycle status, and approved use records for compliance.
• Track AI security reviews, risk treatments, and approval evidence before production deployment.
• Conduct recurring compliance checks for platforms, models, APIs, tools, plugins, connectors, integrations, and third-party AI services.
• Review monitoring outputs for unauthorized use, risk events, and control failures.
• Triage AI security alerts, policy violations, and escalate to owners for decisions.
• Support incident response with root-cause analysis of control design or performance gaps.
• Maintain evidence repositories and audit-ready records for governance reporting.
• Coordinate with cross-functional teams to resolve compliance gaps and close evidence.
• Document activities and evidence for audit, reporting, and compliance.

Skills

Security operations

Governance operations

Risk management

Compliance monitoring

Incident response

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Security or related field

Job description

UnitedHealth Group seeks an AI Security Governance Operations Specialist within Optum Technology to drive daily governance of AI security, controls, and compliance. You will monitor usage, evidence, and risk, coordinating with owners and engineering teams to enforce policies and resolve issues.

In this role you will triage alerts, support incident response, and maintain audits while collaborating with platform, application, identity, and vendor teams to close gaps and deliver secure AI adoption.