Director AI Governance and Risk, BFSI

Director, AI Governance & Risk — BFSI

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Location: Remote (U.S.), with travel to client sites as needed

Reports to: Chief AI Officer

Practice: AI Governance, Risk & Compliance Advisory

Compensation: $180,000 – $240,000 base salary, plus performance bonus

About PiTech Solutions

PiTech is a boutique AI and digital transformation consultancy with deep specialization in banking, financial services, and insurance. We advise boards, C-suites, and risk leaders on the responsible adoption of generative AI, agentic AI, and traditional AI/ML — including during high-stakes M&A integration. Our work combines regulatory fluency, pragmatic engineering, and a distinctly no-hype perspective on what AI can and cannot do in regulated industries.

The Role

PiTech is hiring a Director of AI Governance & Risk to lead our AI governance consulting practice for BFSI clients. You will be the senior practitioner who translates rapidly evolving AI regulation, supervisory expectations, and industry frameworks into executable governance programs that clients can actually run — without slowing the business down.

You will advise risk committees and boards, build and remediate governance frameworks, assess model and vendor risk across generative and agentic AI, and lead AI-related due diligence on acquisition targets. This is a senior, client-facing role that blends deep subject-matter expertise with strategic advisory. You will work alongside our CAIO, delivery leads, and client executive sponsors, and you will play a visible role in shaping PiTech's published thought leadership.

What You'll Do

Client advisory and delivery

• Lead end-to-end AI governance engagements for banks, insurers, wealth managers, and fintechs — from current-state assessment through target operating model and implementation.
• Design AI governance frameworks aligned to NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42001, the EU AI Act, NYDFS cybersecurity and AI guidance, OCC/Fed/FDIC model risk management expectations (SR 11-7 / OCC 2011-12), state AI laws (e.g., Colorado AI Act), and evolving federal requirements.
• Build AI inventories, risk tiering schemes, intake and review processes, model lifecycle controls, and board-level reporting.
• Advise on governance for generative AI, agentic AI, and third-party / embedded AI — including policy, acceptable use, human oversight, evaluation, and incident response.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to CROs, Chief Compliance Officers, General Counsel, CIOs, CDOs, and boards.
• Evaluate model risk, bias, fairness, explainability, robustness, data lineage, and privacy controls across traditional ML and foundation-model use cases.
• Translate regulatory requirements and supervisory letters into concrete control language and testing procedures.
• Partner with client and PiTech technical teams on evaluations, red-teaming, monitoring, and guardrail design.
• Lead AI-focused due diligence on acquisition targets: model inventory, data rights, licensing, vendor exposure, regulatory liability, and technical debt.
• Design Day 1 / Day 100 AI governance integration plans for acquirers.
• Contribute to PiTech's service offerings, accelerators, and reference frameworks for AI governance.
• Mentor junior consultants and help scale the practice as it grows.
• Represent PiTech in client forums, industry events, and written thought leadership.
• 10+ years of combined experience in risk, compliance, audit, model risk management, or AI/data governance, with at least 3 years focused on AI-specific governance.
• Deep BFSI regulatory fluency: model risk, third-party risk, consumer protection, fair lending / UDAAP, privacy, and operational risk.
• Working command of NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42001, the EU AI Act, and U.S. federal and state AI regulation.
• Demonstrated experience advising senior executives, risk committees, or boards.
• Track record building or remediating governance frameworks — not just writing policy documents.
• Strong written and verbal communication; able to translate technical and regulatory complexity for non-technical audiences.
• Consulting or advisory experience at a Big Four, specialty risk firm, or boutique.
• Advanced degree in law, risk management, computer science, statistics, economics, or a related field.
• Certifications such as IAPP AI Governance Professional (AIGP), CRISC, CISA, CRCM, FRM, or CFA.
• Hands-on familiarity with LLM evaluation, red-teaming, or agentic system architectures.
• Prior in-house role at a U.S. bank, insurer, or asset manager.
• You have led at least three substantive AI governance engagements with measurable client outcomes.
• PiTech has a repeatable, productized AI governance offering that you helped shape.
• You are a recognized voice in the BFSI AI governance conversation, contributing regularly to PiTech's client-facing briefings and published thought leadership.

Technical and regulatory depth

M&A and transaction support

Practice development

What You Bring

Required

Preferred

What Success Looks Like in Year One

Compensation and Benefits

Base salary of $180,000 – $240,000, commensurate with experience, plus performance bonus. Comprehensive health benefits, 401(k), professional development budget, and flexible remote work.

How to Apply

Submit your resume along with a brief note describing an AI governance challenge you've personally worked through — what the stakes were, what you did, and what changed as a result.

PiTech Solutions is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applicants of all backgrounds.