Norven · London (global from day one) · Pre-launch / stealth · Founder-grade
The role in one line
A founding leader to build and run Norven’s AI assurance practice — the independent, Fellow-led review of consequential AI deployment decisions for regulated institutions.
Why this role exists
AI now makes consequential decisions inside banks, insurers, public bodies and AI vendors faster than those institutions can evidence, govern and defend them. Norven produces the missing artefact: an independent, evidence-backed review of a specific AI decision, with a named human standing behind the judgement and a full audit trail. This person builds the practice that delivers it.
What you will do
- Shape the methodology — define how a Norven Institutional Screen / Due-Care Review is scoped, conducted, evidenced and recorded.
- Lead the first engagements — win and deliver the earliest reviews with financial-services, insurance and AI-vendor clients; carry the room with senior buyers (CRO, Head of Model Risk, General Counsel, board).
- Convene the Fellowship — help recruit and curate the body of former regulators, King’s Counsel and AI-safety authorities whose names give the work its weight.
- Set the standard — independence, conflict management, evidence handling and quality control that hold Norven to a higher governance bar than the incumbents it reviews.
- Build the institution — not run a finished one.
Who you are
Someone who has carried real accountability for governance, risk or assurance at a senior level — and is respected by the people they would convene. Likely one of: a former regulator or public-body leader; a Big-Four / assurance-firm governance or Responsible-AI partner; an AI-safety or frontier-lab governance leader; or a financial-services risk executive. You are commercially credible, institutionally serious, and want ownership rather than a title in a hierarchy.
What is on offer
- A founding partner seat with founding equity in a category-defining company.
- The chance to define a new professional standard, alongside a marquee Fellowship.
- A direct line to the founder and the strategic core of the business.
Structure
Flexible for the right person — employed, Founding Fellow, or fractional to start, converting as the company funds. Terms and equity finalised with counsel and the cap-table. The standard is fixed; the structure is negotiable.
Boundaries (so we are precise)
Norven produces independent, evidence-backed judgement — not certification, not legal advice, not a compliance guarantee, not liability transfer. We review decisions; we do not underwrite outcomes.
How to express interest
Message Founder directly, or ask a mutual contact to introduce you. No application form; this is a conversation.
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