Senior AI Product Safety & Governance Lead

ITSMF; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Disability coverage

401k plan

Paid vacation

Job summary

ITSMF is seeking a leader to oversee AI product safety across the full lifecycle of AI-enabled solutions. You will partner with product, engineering, risk, compliance, privacy, security, legal, and business stakeholders to assess use cases, mitigate safety risks, and translate governance requirements into practical implementation guidance.

The role emphasizes conducting safety assessments, defining controls, and maintaining artifacts while monitoring metrics and advising teams on safe AI design

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS, Data Science, AI, Software Engineering, or related field.
• Minimum of 7 years of professional experience in AI and data.
• Strong knowledge of AI models, data architectures, and analytics methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Lead AI product safety oversight across design, development, deployment, monitoring, and change management activities.
• Partner with product, engineering, data science, model risk, legal, compliance, privacy, security, and business stakeholders to identify risks and define required controls.
• Conduct AI product safety assessments, including intake, risk tiering, control readiness, documentation review, issue identification, and escalation.
• Translate AI governance standards, regulatory expectations, and enterprise policies into product safety requirements and operating procedures.
• Support controls for transparency, explainability, fairness, human oversight, data quality, privacy, security, resiliency, monitoring, and accountability.
• Maintain AI product safety artifacts, including assessment templates, decision records, risk summaries, control evidence, procedures, playbooks, and reporting.
• Monitor product safety metrics, control effectiveness, emerging risks, and remediation actions for deployed AI capabilities.
• Advise teams on safe AI design patterns, risk mitigation strategies, approval readiness, and governance expectations.
• Lead cross-functional AI product safety initiatives and review deliverables for quality, completeness, and standards alignment.
• Provide coaching and guidance to promote consistent adoption of AI product safety and governance practices.

Skills

AI models knowledge

Data architectures

Analytics methodologies

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, AI, Software Engineering, or related field

Master’s degree in a relevant technical discipline

Job description

ITSMF is seeking a leader to oversee AI product safety across the full lifecycle of AI-enabled solutions. You will partner with product, engineering, risk, compliance, privacy, security, legal, and business stakeholders to assess use cases, mitigate safety risks, and translate governance requirements into practical implementation guidance.

The role emphasizes conducting safety assessments, defining controls, and maintaining artifacts while monitoring metrics and advising teams on safe AI design