VP, AI & Model Governance - Remote

Humana, Inc.; Honolulu (HI); Remote; USD 189,000 - 261,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

401(k) plan

Paid time off

Life insurance

Job summary

Humana, Inc. is seeking an Associate Vice President, Model & AI Governance to lead the enterprise framework for model governance and AI risk management.

This executive role partners with senior leadership to ensure safe, ethical, transparent, and compliant AI deployments across the organization. The position requires extensive experience in AI governance, risk management, and regulatory awareness, with preference for healthcare sector expertise.

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 related disciplines.
• Significant experience leading enterprise-wide model governance, AI governance, responsible AI or technology risk programs.
• Proven ability to operate at an executive level within a complex, highly regulated organization.

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 with other AI governance functions to streamline processes.
• Develop standards for responsible use of generative AI, LLMs, AI agents, automated decision-making and other emerging tech, partnering with stakeholders for alignment.
• Establish governance mechanisms to identify and address unintended consequences, model drift, hallucination, discrimination, explainability limitations, and other AI risks.
• Own the enterprise AI risk management framework and governance processes.
• Establish governance for the enterprise AI inventory, ensuring AI applications and use cases are inventoried, classified, risk-rated, owned, and monitored.
• Develop AI risk assessments and approval requirements proportionate to impact.
• Establish ongoing monitoring of AI performance, risk indicators, incidents, exceptions and emerging threats.
• Partner with cybersecurity, Privacy, Legal, Compliance, Data Governance, and Technology Risk on AI risks.
• Govern for external AI providers, foundation models, APIs, AI platforms, and third-party AI solutions.
• Establish policies, standards, procedures, control requirements, and governance committees for model and AI risk.
• Define clear first-line ownership and second-line oversight responsibilities.
• Develop and monitor enterprise model and AI risk appetite metrics, tolerance thresholds, and KRIs.
• Lead Model Risk and AI Governance committees and report to management, Risk Committees, and Board on risk exposure and trends.
• Lead a hybrid team of internal associates and external partners for model validation, governance, risk assessments, monitoring, and assurance.
• Promote a culture of responsible AI and governance through training and stakeholder engagement.

Skills

AI governance

Model risk management

Executive communication

Stakeholder engagement

Regulatory frameworks

Risk management

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Job description

Humana, Inc. is seeking an Associate Vice President, Model & AI Governance to lead the enterprise framework for model governance and AI risk management.

This executive role partners with senior leadership to ensure safe, ethical, transparent, and compliant AI deployments across the organization. The position requires extensive experience in AI governance, risk management, and regulatory awareness, with preference for healthcare sector expertise.