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Senior Manager - Data & AI Governance

Mercury · San Francisco, CA, New York, NY, Portland, OR, or Remote within United States · Remote

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About the role

This role will work closely with the Model Risk Management and Information Security teams while maintaining a distinct mandate: Data & AI Governance will establish enterprise governance and responsible-use standards, while Model Risk Management will retain responsibility for model inventory, tiering, validation, and model-risk oversight. Our target new hire base salary ranges for this role are the following :

What they're looking for

  • 10+ years of relevant experience in data governance, AI governance, technology risk, information governance, model risk, privacy, compliance, or a related discipline
  • Demonstrated experience building or materially enhancing a data governance, AI governance, or responsible-AI program
  • Strong understanding of data ownership, stewardship, quality, lineage, metadata, classification, access, retention, and lifecycle management
  • Working knowledge of AI and machine-learning concepts, including generative AI, large language models, training and inference data, explainability, bias, performance monitoring, and human oversight
  • Experience developing practical, risk-based policies and governance processes that can operate effectively in a fast-moving technology environment
  • Ability to distinguish among data governance, AI governance, model risk, information security, privacy, and compliance responsibilities while coordinating effectively across those functions
More about this role

Mercury is seeking a Data & AI Governance leader to build and spearhead an enterprise-wide governance program for data and artificial intelligence. Reporting to the Chief Risk Officer, this leader will establish practical standards for how data and AI are owned, developed, used, protected, and monitored across the organization.

The ideal candidate combines strong governance and risk-management experience with sufficient technical fluency to work effectively with Data, Engineering, Product, Information Security, Legal, Compliance, and business teams. This person should be comfortable building in a fast-moving environment and designing governance that supports responsible innovation without creating unnecessary complexity.

This role will work closely with the Model Risk Management and Information Security teams while maintaining a distinct mandate: Data & AI Governance will establish enterprise governance and responsible-use standards, while Model Risk Management will retain responsibility for model inventory, tiering, validation, and model-risk oversight.

  • Develop and implement Mercury’s enterprise Data and AI Governance frameworks, policies, standards, and operating model.

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