# Senior AI Governance Counsel at Adyen

- Company: Adyen
- What the company does: Run payments, manage your data, and offer financial products in one platform. Adyen is purpose-built for the world. Backed by Index and ICONIQ.
- Company website: http://adyen.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: New York
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $210K to $275K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-18
- Apply by: 2026-10-12
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/adyen/jobs/8107347
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/adyen-senior-ai-governance-counsel/

## About the role

We are looking for a Senior AI Governance Counsel to join our Global DPO Office and help build, roll out, and operate Adyen's enterprise AI governance framework. Sitting within the group that owns our global privacy program and AI governance, and supports incident response and management as well as data governance, you will be the driving force in shaping our strong foundations into a consistent, enterprise-wide AI governance program that scales with Adyen's ambitions - helping the business innovate boldly and...

## What they're looking for

- Help build, roll out, and embed Adyen's enterprise-wide AI governance framework, policies, and standards, driving consistency as AI adoption scales across the business
- Interpret the EU AI Act, the NIST AI Risk Management Framework, and other applicable AI laws across Adyen's global footprint, and translate them into practical policies, playbooks, and procedures for first-line teams
- Support the teams that maintain Adyen's AI inventories by defining governance parameters and requirements for cataloguing and risk-classifying AI tools and use cases
- Develop enterprise guidance and a consistent approach for evaluating AI systems, covering performance, fairness, and explainability expectations appropriate to each use case's risk profile
- Translate model-evaluation techniques - including fairness, bias, and adversarial (red-teaming) testing - into clear procedures that technology teams can apply to their own models and tools
- Partner with Enterprise Risk, Security, Product, Compliance, Legal, Regulatory, and Engineering to run the AI governance program and align on controls, escalation, and human-oversight protocols

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