Nearly every organization deploying AI today already knows it needs governance — a Board member has likely already asked who owns AI risk — but very few can justify a full-time hire for it yet. What fills the gap instead is a committee nobody chairs, a policy document nobody enforces, or a title bolted onto someone already carrying an unrelated full-time job.
35+ governance frameworks are already applied in active practice, including ISO/IEC 42001 and the NIST AI RMF — deployed, not studied. This is offered as an embedded, ongoing seat held by a working AI developer who can read the code an AI system actually runs on and identify governance and data-privacy risk directly in it — not a policy-only reviewer relying on what engineering reports up, backed by substantial GRC experience and multiple global vulnerability-incident remediations. That framework depth comes from 20+ years operating across legal, technology and compliance domains in both Canada and India — AI governance built on top of an already cross-domain foundation, not bolted onto a single-domain career.
Talk About This Seat →Usual Responsibilities
- Chair the AI governance committee and set its cadence
- Own the organization's AI inventory and risk register
- Approve or block new AI initiatives against governance policy
- Maintain policy and control library aligned to ISO/IEC 42001, NIST AI RMF and sector-specific requirements
- Report AI governance posture to the Board on a defined cadence
- Review third-party AI vendor risk
RACI Profile
How this role typically sits in a RACI matrix — what it owns, what it's checked against, and who else is in the loop.
- AI inventory maintenance and risk register updates
- Governance committee cadence and meeting outcomes
- Vendor AI risk review and policy enforcement
- Overall AI governance posture and regulatory readiness
- Board-level AI governance reporting accuracy
- Initiative approval decisions and their downstream risk
- Engineering and product teams before new AI initiatives launch
- Legal on regulatory and contractual AI risk
- Compliance on sector-specific AI governance requirements
- Board of Directors on AI governance posture, quarterly at minimum
- Department heads on AI policy changes affecting their function
- External auditors or regulators, on request
Where This Shows Up
The productized version of this exact role, available as an ongoing retainer at four pricing tiers.
The core competency underlying this role — framework mapping, policy libraries, risk registers.
35+ governance frameworks applied in active practice, including ISO/IEC 42001 and NIST AI RMF.