Description and Requirements The Opportunity The Vice President, AI Risk & Governance, is a strategic second-line risk leadership role within Global Risk Management (GRM) responsible for maintaining and evolving MetLife's AI risk and governance framework.
The role identifies novel and emerging risks presented by artificial intelligence, translates those risks into governance requirements and practical controls, and ensures the enterprise's AI activities remain aligned to risk appetite, existing financial and non-financial risk governance frameworks and regulatory expectations.
This position has broad enterprise impact through close collaboration within GRM, Data & Analytics, Technology, Legal, Privacy, Information Security, Ethical AI, Data Governance, Model Risk and Business stakeholders. The role helps shape the strategic vision for AI risk management, drives risk-based decisioning in the AI approval process, and strengthens consistency, transparency, and scalability of governance across new and emerging AI initiatives.
The role is critical to enabling AI development and innovation responsibly by balancing business value creation with disciplined risk oversight, clear escalation of material and emerging issues, and ongoing monitoring of AI risk themes, control effectiveness, and emerging regulatory developments.
Key Responsibilities - Lead day-to-day execution of the AI governance approval process, including risk-based review, challenge, escalation, and alignment to enterprise risk appetite and responsible AI principles.
- Provide credible second-line challenge and thought leadership to senior stakeholders on acceptable use, control requirements, and mitigation strategies for AI risks.
- Translate risk appetite and regulatory expectations into actionable governance requirements and control expectations.
- Identify and assess novel, emerging, and cross-cutting risks arising from AI.
- Drive strategic improvements to financial and non-financial AI risk and governance processes, including transparency, efficiency, operating model design, and reporting.
- Help implement the strategic vision for AI risk management, including scalable governance, stronger risk identification, and monitoring capabilities.
- Partner with control functions and business teams to embed effective controls across the AI lifecycle.
- Operationalize risk-based integration across governance processes at the workflow and control level.
Required Qualifications - 12+ years' risk management experience within financial services or regulated industry.
- Deep understanding of AI technologies and associated risks, including machine learning, generative AI, agentic AI, model risk, and data risk, along with their application to business processes and systems.
- Proven experience designing, implementing, and enhancing enterprise governance frameworks, policies, standards, and approval processes.
- Demonstrated success operating within complex, highly matrixed organizations and influencing senior stakeholders across functions.
- Exceptional strategic thinking, judgment, problem-solving, and executive communication skills with the ability to identify emerging and regulatory issues and translate them into practical governance actions.
- Strong knowledge of regulatory, governance, and control expectations related to AI, models, data, and responsible AI practices.
- Bachelor's degree required.
Preferred Qualifications - Advanced degree in data science, applied mathematics, AI/ML, actuarial science or a related field preferred.
Location Expectation: This is a hybrid role
requiring a minimum of 3 days per week in office.
The expected salary range for this position is $238,800 - $318,300 . This role may also be eligible for annual short-term incentive compensation and stock-based long-term incentives. All incentives and benefits are subject to the applicable plan terms.
Benefits We Offer Our U.S. benefits address holistic well-being with programs for physical and mental health, financial wellness, and support for families. We offer a comprehensive health plan that includes medical/prescription drug and vision, dental insurance, and no-cost short- and long-term disability. We also provide company-paid life insurance and legal services, a retirement pension funded entirely by MetLife and 401(k) with employer matching, group discounts on voluntary insurance products including auto and home, pet, critical illness, hospital indemnity, and accident insurance, as well as Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and digital mental health programs, parental leave, paid time off, paid holidays, volunteer time off, tuition assistance and much more! For more information regarding MetLife's U.S. benefits, please
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