Manager, AI Governance

Canada Life

$107K — $157K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Degree in relevant fields or equivalent experience.
  • 5+ years in technology governance, risk management, compliance, or AI governance.
  • Understanding of AI lifecycle management and responsible AI principles.
  • Experience with governance processes, controls, and assessments.
  • Ability to translate complex regulations into practical processes.
  • Strong communication and organizational skills.
  • Familiarity with AI inventory management and risk monitoring preferred.

Responsibilities

  • Support implementation of AI governance frameworks and standards.
  • Coordinate intake, risk classification, and governance reviews.
  • Facilitate risk assessments and identify control requirements.
  • Partner with cross-functional teams for responsible AI deployment.
  • Maintain governance records and lifecycle documentation.
  • Develop reporting metrics and dashboards for leadership oversight.
  • Monitor evolving regulatory expectations related to AI governance.
  • Identify opportunities for streamlining governance processes.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work in a hybrid environment.
  • Collaborative culture with cross-functional teams.
  • Focused on establishing scalable governance practices.
  • Career growth potential within a regulated industry.
  • Access to continuously evolving AI and technology initiatives.
Full Job Description
Permanent Full Time

The Manager, AI Governance is accountable for helping operationalize enterprise AI governance processes. This role partners with business, technology, risk, legal, privacy, compliance, security, and audit stakeholders to ensure AI initiatives follow governance requirements from intake through delivery and ongoing operation.

This role is focused on governance operations, lifecycle discipline, stakeholder coordination, and practical implementation of AI controls. The role may lead direct reports over time and will help establish scalable governance practices as enterprise AI adoption grows.

What you will do
  • Support the implementation and ongoing operation of enterprise AI governance frameworks, standards, and lifecycle processes.
  • Coordinate AI intake, triage, risk classification, governance review, approval, and ongoing monitoring activities.
  • Facilitate governance assessments and help solution teams identify risks, required controls, and remediation actions.
  • Partner with AI delivery, platform, architecture, privacy, security, legal, compliance, risk, and audit teams to support responsible AI deployment.
  • Maintain AI inventories, governance records, decision logs, lifecycle documentation, and evidence required for oversight.
  • Support the definition and operationalization of controls related to transparency, human oversight, data use, monitoring, model performance, security, and accountability.
  • Develop governance reporting, metrics, dashboards, and status updates for leadership and governance forums.
  • Monitor evolving regulatory, industry, and internal expectations related to AI governance and responsible AI.
  • Identify opportunities to simplify, standardize, automate, and scale governance processes.
  • Promote awareness and practical adoption of AI governance requirements across business and technology teams.


What you will bring
  • Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, Risk Management, Business, Law, Public Policy, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 5 or more years of experience in technology governance, risk management, compliance, privacy, security, data governance, model governance, or AI governance.
  • Understanding of AI lifecycle management, responsible AI principles, and technology risk management concepts.
  • Experience developing, implementing, or operating governance processes, controls, assessments, or assurance practices.
  • Ability to translate policy, regulatory, privacy, risk, and security expectations into practical operating processes.
  • Experience working with cross functional stakeholders in a large, matrixed organization.
  • Strong communication, facilitation, documentation, and organizational skills.
  • Familiarity with AI inventory management, model governance, risk tiering, monitoring, and control evidence is preferred.
  • Ability to balance governance discipline with practical delivery needs.
  • Experience in financial services or another regulated industry is an asset.


The base salary for this position is between $107,800 - $157,800 annually. This represents base salary only and does not represent other variable compensation components of our total compensation ( i.e. annual bonus, commission etc). If you are selected to move forward in our recruitment process, your recruiter will be able to discuss additional details of our total rewards program with you.

Career opportunities will be open a minimum of 5 business days from the date of posting, closing dates will vary depending on the search activity. All applications received will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

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Requisition ID: 6666

Category: Digital Technology

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