AI Governance Program Manager

Job Title: AI Governance Program Manager

Location: New York City, NY

Work Arrangement: Hybrid

Employment Type: Contract

Duration: Long-Term

Domain: Banking & Financial Services (BFS)

Pay Rate: $54.02/hr W2 $65.00/hr C2C

Application Deadline: August 17, 2026

SKILLS REQUIRED

Primary (Must-Have):

• AI / ML Governance Frameworks Enterprise Risk & Compliance Oversight 7+ Years Experience • End-to-End AI Use Case Intake Lifecycle Approval Processes Audit Readiness

• Regulated Financial Services Governance & Control Programs

• Cross-Functional Stakeholder Orchestration (Risk, Legal, Privacy, InfoSec, Tech & Architecture)

Secondary (Good to Have):

• Model Risk Management (MRM) Third-Party Risk & Bias Evaluation • Centralized Governance Backlog Management Decision Logging & Workflow Tooling • KPI Governance Reporting Executive Metrics & Dashboards

POSITION OVERVIEW

Operating within the Enterprise Risk and Governance organization, the AI Governance Program Manager leads the operationalization and ongoing execution of AI use case evaluation and oversight in a heavily regulated financial services environment. Reporting to Enterprise Control Leadership, this role solves key regulatory, operational, and ethical risk challenges by designing mature intake, review, and decisioning frameworks. By driving cross-functional alignment across Legal, Risk, InfoSec, and Technology, the position guarantees full auditability, strategic alignment, and responsible AI deployment across business lines.

ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES

• Design, refine, and operationalize the AI governance framework, operating model, intake workflows, and RACI matrices for AI use case evaluation and ongoing oversight.

• Facilitate governance review cadences and approval lifecycles across Risk, Legal, Privacy, InfoSec, Architecture, and Business stakeholders to ensure consistent decisioning.

• Maintain a centralized governance backlog and decision log, ensuring complete traceability of rationale, approvals, conditions, waivers, and remediation actions for regulatory inquiry.

• Track, analyze, and produce executive-ready governance metrics, throughput reporting, cycle times, and bottleneck evaluations to demonstrate program effectiveness.

• Support change management initiatives, stakeholder enablement, and process reinforcement to drive continuous adoption of updated governance procedures across the enterprise.

BENEFITS

Medical Dental Vision 401(k)

EEOC Compliance:

We are an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment.

DISCLAIMER

AI Usage Policy: Pacer Group uses AI to assist in screening applications. Final hiring decisions are made by human recruiters based on qualifications and experience.