Remote VP of Model & AI Governance & Risk

Humana; Frankfort (KY); Remote; USD 189,000 - 261,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus incentive plan

Medical, dental, vision

401(k) retirement

Paid time off

Job summary

Humana is seeking an Associate Vice President, Model & AI Governance, to lead enterprise-wide governance for AI and risk management. This executive will oversee model risk, responsible AI, and regulatory compliance, partnering with senior leaders to ensure ethical, transparent AI deployment across the organization.

Responsibilities include establishing risk appetite, validation standards, and governance frameworks, while guiding cross-functional teams through AI lifecycle management and incident

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• 15+ years of progressive experience in risk management, model risk management, AI governance, technology risk, data governance, analytics, compliance, internal audit or other disciplines.
• Significant experience leading enterprise-wide model governance, AI governance, or technology risk programs.
• Demonstrated executive-level experience in a complex, regulated organization.
• Healthcare experience strongly preferred.
• Strong understanding of AI/ML technologies, generative AI, model development and validation, data governance, and technology risk.
• Knowledge of emerging AI regulatory and governance frameworks and healthcare regulatory requirements.

Responsibilities

• Own and continuously enhance the enterprise model governance framework, including model identification, inventory, classification, risk tiering, development, validation, approval, implementation, monitoring, change management, retirement and documentation.
• Define model risk appetite, risk taxonomy, minimum control standards, governance requirements and escalation thresholds.
• Provide effective challenge over model development, validation, implementation, monitoring and performance.
• Oversee the enterprise model inventory and ensure appropriate ownership, accountability, documentation, and risk classification.
• Establish standards for model validation, including conceptual soundness, performance, stability, data quality, bias, explainability and ongoing monitoring.
• Ensure appropriate governance over third-party and externally developed models.
• Develop and oversee the organization’s Responsible AI framework and principles.
• Establish governance standards addressing fairness, bias, transparency, explainability, accountability, privacy, human oversight, safety, security, and appropriate use of AI.
• Establish processes for AI use-case risk intake, risk assessment, approval, monitoring, and ongoing oversight, working closely with other AI governance functions to simplify and streamline processes.

Skills

Executive leadership

AI governance

Model risk management

Healthcare risk

Regulatory knowledge

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Job description

Humana is seeking an Associate Vice President, Model & AI Governance, to lead enterprise-wide governance for AI and risk management. This executive will oversee model risk, responsible AI, and regulatory compliance, partnering with senior leaders to ensure ethical, transparent AI deployment across the organization.

Responsibilities include establishing risk appetite, validation standards, and governance frameworks, while guiding cross-functional teams through AI lifecycle management and incident