Remote GRC AI Lead — AI Governance & Risk

Worldwide Clinical Trials; United States; Remote; USD 101,000 - 201,000; Full time

Job summary

Worldwide Clinical Trials is seeking a Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) AI Lead to shape how AI is governed across the organization. This remote role is open to candidates based in the United States, with collaboration across global teams.

You will build and lead the Enterprise IT AI Governance framework, define intake and risk-based approvals for AI use cases and AI-enabled products, and ensure secure, compliant deployment with human oversight.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in IT, cybersecurity, CS, data science, risk management, business, or law.
• 8+ years in governance, risk, or compliance with 3+ years leading enterprise programs.
• Experience developing policies, standards, risk assessments, and governance workflows.
• Working knowledge of AI governance, responsible AI, ML, and AI lifecycle risks.
• Strong English communication with cross‑functional collaboration across global teams.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain the Enterprise IT AI Governance framework, including operating model, standards, procedures, decision rights, risk tiers, controls, and records.
• Establish a company-wide intake, assessment, and approval process for AI use cases, AI‑enabled vendor products, internally developed solutions, and AI agents.
• Maintain a centralized inventory of AI systems and agents, capturing ownership, intended use, data sources, permissions, dependencies, risk classification, approval status, and lifecycle information.
• Lead risk-based governance reviews in partnership with Information Security, Privacy, Legal, Quality, Enterprise Architecture, Data, Vendor Management, Procurement, and other SMEs.
• Define governance requirements for AI agents, including ownership, approved purpose, identity and access, human oversight, testing, monitoring, logging, change control, incident response, and secure retirement.
• Coordinate reviews of cybersecurity, privacy, quality, third‑party, and operational risks associated with AI, including sensitive data exposure, prompt injection, excessive agency, insecure integrations, identity misuse, unauthorized actions, and supply‑chain dependencies.
• Strengthen governance for clinical, GxP, and other regulated AI use cases by partnering with Quality and business owners on validation, human oversight, data integrity, change control, recordkeeping, and inspection readiness.
• Monitor approved AI technologies for material changes, control exceptions, incidents, performance concerns, and emerging requirements, triggering reassessment and remediation when appropriate.
• Deliver practical governance guidance, training, metrics, executive reporting, and audit‑ready evidence while advising leadership on emerging AI risks, governance gaps, and investment needs.

Skills

Program management

Stakeholder management

Communication

English proficiency

Education

Bachelor’s degree in IT / Cybersecurity / Computer Science / Data Science / Risk Management / Business / Law

Advanced degree preferred

Job description

Worldwide Clinical Trials is seeking a Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) AI Lead to shape how AI is governed across the organization. This remote role is open to candidates based in the United States, with collaboration across global teams.

You will build and lead the Enterprise IT AI Governance framework, define intake and risk-based approvals for AI use cases and AI-enabled products, and ensure secure, compliant deployment with human oversight.