Job Description

The Impact you will have in this role:

The Technology Research & Innovation AI Governance Associate Director is a senior individual-contributor and thought-leader role responsible for shaping, executing, and continuously improving DTCC's enterprise AI governance framework. This role partners closely with the AI Enablement Team (AET), AI Council, Technology Risk, Compliance, Legal, Model Risk, Privacy, Cyber, and product and engineering teams to ensure AI use cases are identified, assessed, governed, monitored, and reported in accordance with DTCC AI Policy, enterprise standards, and regulatory and audit expectations. In addition, the Associate Director will strengthen DTCC's first line of defense for AI by providing review, challenge, guidance, and oversight across the AI lifecycle, while enabling responsible innovation at scale.

Your Primary Responsibilities:

AI Governance, Controls & Audit Readiness

• Support the development, implementation, and ongoing enhancement of DTCC's AI governance framework, policies, standards, and procedures
• Review, challenge, and provide guidance on AI use cases to ensure risks are identified, assessed, mitigated, accepted, or remediated in alignment with DTCC's risk appetite
• Ensure AI governance activities produce clear, consistent, and auditable artifacts to support internal audit, regulatory reviews, and management assurance
• Align AI governance practices with DTCC's broader risk, control, issue management, and compliance frameworks
• Monitor emerging AI-related regulatory, industry, and supervisory developments and assess impacts to DTCC governance and controls

AI Use Case Lifecycle Management

• Partner with the AI Enablement Team to guide AI use case submissions through appropriate review and governance pathways, including AET Review, AI Registry, and additional Portfolio Management/ARB/SDP processes
• Ensure AI use cases are evaluated for consistency, duplication, risk exposure, and alignment with enterprise standards
• Support maintenance and quality assurance of enterprise AI inventories, registries, and attestations for production AI solutions

Metrics, Reporting & Executive Communication

• Define, review, and enhance AI governance metrics, KPIs, and KRIs to provide transparent, defensible insight into AI adoption, risk posture, and control effectiveness
• Prepare materials for leadership, governance forums, and regulatory stakeholders, including dashboards, summaries, and presentations
• Support consistent enterprise reporting on AI initiatives, risks, and governance effectiveness
• Act as a trusted advisor to product, engineering, data, risk, compliance, and legal partners on responsible AI governance and control expectations
• Collaborate with stakeholders across the lines of defense to ensure cohesive execution of AI governance, risk, and audit objectives
• Contribute to education sessions, working groups, and forums to reinforce AI governance, control discipline, and audit-ready practices across DTCC

Stakeholder Partnership & Enablement

• Act as a trusted advisor to product, engineering, data, risk, compliance, and legal partners on responsible AI governance and control expectations
• Collaborate with stakeholders across the lines of defense to ensure cohesive execution of AI governance, risk, and audit objectives
• Contribute to education sessions, working groups, and forums to reinforce AI governance, control discipline, and audit-ready practices across DTCC

**NOTE: The Primary Responsibilities of this role are not limited to the details above. **

Qualifications:

• Minimum 10 years of relevant experience in technology, risk management, governance, or related disciplines, ideally within financial services.
• Bachelor's degree (preferred) or equivalent experience

Talents Needed for Success:

• Strong understanding of AI concepts, model lifecycles, and associated risk domains (e.g., model risk, data risk, privacy, cyber, operational risk)
• Proven ability to review, challenge, and influence complex initiatives while balancing innovation with risk and control requirements
• Experience working across enterprise governance processes, including issue management, policy development, and executive reporting
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to synthesize complex topics for non-experts, audit, and regulatory audiences
• Direct experience supporting or partnering with AI governance, model risk management, data governance, or emerging technology oversight functions
• Familiarity with enterprise portfolio governance, metrics, and board-level reporting
• Experience operating in fast-paced, lean teams with high visibility and accountability

We offer top class training and development for you to be an asset in our organization!

The salary range is indicative for roles at the same level within DTCC across all US locations. Actual salary is determined based on the role, location, individual experience, skills, and other considerations.

About the Team

Serves as a dedicated technology resource for advancing DTCC's business opportunities and providing industry thought leadership for leveraging new technology. The goal of this new department is to partner internally with IT, our business and regulatory divisions and externally with clients, regulators, and fintech vendors, to help build new platforms and business models to advance DTCC's mission to support the financial markets.