WCIB Artificial Intelligence Technology Risk Manager

US Bank; Minneapolis (MN); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)

401(k) retirement plan

Paid vacation and holidays

Disability insurance

Parental leave

Adoption assistance

Sick leave

Job summary

U.S. Bank is seeking an AI and Emerging Technologies Risk Manager to coordinate AI use case intake, governance, and oversight.

The role partners with risk, compliance, and information security functions to ensure proper risk identification, documentation, monitoring, and escalation throughout the AI lifecycle. The ideal candidate has a strong background in risk/compliance with extensive leadership experience, and excellent communication and analytical skills.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.
• Typically more than 10 years of applicable experience.
• Strong leadership and communication skills.
• Thorough knowledge of Risk/Compliance/Audit competencies.
• Experience with AI governance, risk, and controls.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary risk leader for WCIB AI use cases, pilots, and proofs of concept.
• Provide oversight and maintain standards for the AI use case portfolio and lifecycle documentation.
• Translate policy requirements into actionable business guidance and governance artifacts.
• Drive policy execution with registry records, monitoring plans, testing evidence, and governance docs.
• Identify governance gaps and lead remediation to ensure compliance and operational integrity.
• Lead escalation and remediation of AI and emerging tech risks and control deficiencies.

Skills

Risk management

Leadership

Communication

Analytical thinking

Negotiation

Problem solving

Microsoft Office

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

At U.S. Bank, we're on a journey to do our best. Helping the customers and businesses we serve to make better and smarter financial decisions and enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed. We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life, and each person is unique in their potential. A career with U.S. Bank gives you a wide, ever-growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive at every stage of your career. Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at-all from Day One.

Job Description

The AI and Emerging Technologies Risk Manager will serve as a central point of coordination for AI use case intake, onboarding, governance, and AI oversight. The role will provide consultative guidance to business partners, perform intake quality control, coordinate with appropriate risk and control partners, and support governance throughout the asset lifecycle for AI use cases. This role partners closely with WCIB business leaders and the Second Line of Defense (SLOD) teams including Enterprise Risk Management, Technology Risk Oversight, Model Risk Management, Compliance, Law Division, Third Party Risk Management, Enterprise Data Governance, and Information Security Services and Technology Risk Oversight. The candidate selected will ensure emerging AI technology risks are properly identified, assessed, documented, monitored, and escalated. While SLOD teams provide independent oversight and challenge, this role retains business line accountability for execution, evidence, issue management, and remediation.

Position Highlights

• Serve as the primary accountable risk leader for WCIB AI use cases, pilots, and proofs of concept
• Provide oversight and maintain standards for the WCIB AI use case portfolio, ensuring complete, accurate, and transparent documentation throughout the AI lifecycle
• Provide guidance on AI policy requirements, risk considerations, governance expectations, and required artifacts. Translate policy requirements into actionable business guidance
• Drive execution of policy and procedural requirements, including required registry records, monitoring plans, testing evidence, and governance documentation
• Promote a strong risk culture by proactively identifying governance gaps, including unregistered or unauthorized AI activities, and driving remediation to maintain compliance and operational integrity
• Lead the identification, assessment, escalation, and remediation of AI and emerging technology risks, control deficiencies, risk acceptances, and corrective action plans (i.e. issue management)
• Apply knowledge of WCIB's AI enablement strategy to align risk governance with business priorities, strategic initiatives, and growth objectives
• Lead complex and ambiguous risk topics, influence senior stakeholders, and communicate decisions, risks, and escalations in an executive-ready manner

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree, or equivalent work experience
• Typically more than 10 years of applicable experience

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Advanced knowledge of applicable laws, regulations, financial services, and regulatory trends that impact their assigned line of business
• Advanced understanding of the business line's operations, products/services, systems, and associated risks/controls
• Thorough knowledge of Risk/Compliance/Audit competencies
• Strong leadership and management skills of processes, projects and people
• Effective written and verbal communication skills
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and negotiation skills
• Proficient computer skills, especially Microsoft Office applications
• Applicable professional certifications

Hybrid/flexible schedule

The role offers a hybrid/flexible schedule, which means there's an in-office expectation of 3 or more days per week and the flexibility to work outside the office location for the other days.

If there's anything we can do to accommodate a disability during any portion of the application or hiring process, please refer to our disability accommodations for applicants.

Benefits

• Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)
• Basic term and optional term life insurance
• Short-term and long-term disability
• Pregnancy disability and parental leave
• 401(k) and employer-funded retirement plan
• Paid vacation (from two to five weeks depending on salary grade and tenure)
• Up to 11 paid holiday opportunities
• Adoption assistance
• Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 80 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law
• Review our full benefits available by employment status here .

U.S. Bank is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants witho