AI Governance Senior Lead

Company: Swift Software
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Location: London
Job Description:

AI Governance Senior Lead

As an AI Governance Senior Lead, you will work alongside a small team to shape and drive the organization’s AI governance agenda, translating strategic priorities into delivery across multiple teams.

Key Responsibilities

  • Strategic Leadership: Define and evolve the AI governance direction, setting priorities and shaping the scope of major initiatives in line with regulatory, control, and business needs.
  • Complex Delivery: Work closely with business use case owners across a broad and sometimes ambiguous scope, supporting them to manage dependencies, priorities, and risks across teams to maintain momentum and quality.
  • Cross‑Team Alignment: Drive alignment across product, data science, engineering, legal, compliance, security, and risk teams to foster a culture of AI excellence and responsible innovation.
  • Quality and Standards: Strengthen governance quality beyond your own work by improving standards, frameworks, and review practices that support consistent and scalable delivery.
  • Influence cross‑team practices, governance maturity, and organizational readiness.
  • Capability Building: Build team capability by coaching others, strengthening collaboration, and creating the conditions for more effective delivery across the wider team.
  • Accountability and Resolution: Hold stakeholders accountable for agreed actions, surface delivery risks early, and help resolve conflicts or blockers that affect team outcomes.
  • Ethical AI: Promote ethical AI principles and ensure that AI systems are designed and used in a fair, transparent, and accountable manner.
  • Monitoring and Reporting: Establish effective monitoring and reporting mechanisms to track AI usage, performance, and compliance with governance standards.
  • External Engagement: Represent Swift in industry forums and collaborate with external experts to stay updated on the latest AI trends and best practices.

Ideal Candidate

  • Track record of delivering meaningful outcomes within AI governance while also helping define that governance in complex or evolving environments.
  • Effectively manages cross‑team dependencies, priorities, and risks, and contributes to improving quality standards beyond their own direct work.
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to facilitate workshops, training sessions, and strategic discussions.
  • Deep and continuously updated knowledge of AI, global AI regulatory landscapes, and standards.

What Swift Offers

  • Career Growth: Opportunities to advance your career in a dynamic and innovative environment.
  • Competitive Compensation: A competitive salary and benefits package.
  • Performance‑Driven Culture: Recognition and reward for top performers.
  • Global Impact: The chance to contribute to a global organization.
  • Work‑Life Balance: Flexible work arrangements and a supportive work environment.

Committed to an inclusive and accessible recruitment process.

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Posted: July 6th, 2026