Senior Director, AI Risk and Compliance

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in California, +4 more states.

📋 Description

• Develop and implement a comprehensive AI risk and governance framework across CRG, ensuring alignment with Thermo Fisher's enterprise policies and regulatory standards.

• Convert regulatory and enterprise risk mandates into adaptable governance models, templates, and automated controls.

• Integrate compliance into model lifecycle tools, monitoring systems, auditing, and traceability frameworks.

• Ensure that AI solutions prioritize transparency, explainability, data privacy and security compliance, bias detection and mitigation, auditability, and traceability.

• Collaborate with Legal, Compliance, Privacy, InfoSec, and Quality teams to ensure alignment with global regulations and internal policies.

• Establish and implement risk tiers for AI use cases, including expedited paths, lightweight reviews, and formal governance processes.

• Function as an independent control entity within the Applied AI operational framework.

• Incorporate risk controls into readiness frameworks, workflow design, lifecycle stage gates, systems, and tools.

• Act as the main point of contact with Legal, Privacy, InfoSec, and Quality organizations.

• Create a scalable governance and risk framework for AI while minimizing compliance, quality, and reputational risks associated with AI.

• Assist in developing a unique external AI and workflow transformation offering.

⛳️ Requirements

• A bachelor's degree in business, computer science, digital strategy, or a related discipline is required.

• An MBA or advanced degree is preferred.

• A minimum of 15 years of experience in digital, innovation, strategy, content/knowledge management, or customer-facing leadership roles within clinical research, healthcare, life sciences, or technology-enabled services.

• Capability to convey complex digital, data, and AI concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Proven experience in creating customer-facing content for bids, proposals, value demonstrations, and executive presentations.

• Strong executive presence during high-stakes customer and leadership meetings.

• Ability to influence results in complex organizational structures without formal authority.

• Strong strategic judgment and systems thinking abilities.

• Excellent executive communication skills, narrative clarity, and storytelling abilities.

• Robust skills in content architecture, knowledge management, editorial work, and governance, including taxonomy, versioning, reuse, and quality control.

• Experience managing stakeholders across Digital, Commercial, Operations, Marketing, and Executive leadership.

• Comfort working in ambiguous and high-pressure situations with emotional intelligence and discretion.

• Competence in managing and scaling tasks through partners and vendors.

• Ability to communicate, receive, and comprehend information and ideas with a diverse range of groups.

• Proficient in using and learning standard office technology and equipment.

• Ability to thrive under pressure while prioritizing and managing multiple projects or activities.

• May require occasional travel of 0–20%.

• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship.

• Must successfully pass a comprehensive background check, including drug screening.

🏝️ Benefits

• Variable annual bonus based on company, team, and/or individual performance outcomes.

• National medical and dental coverage.

• National vision plan, along with health incentive programs.

• Employee assistance and family support services.

• Commuter benefits.

• Tuition reimbursement options.

• Minimum of 120 hours of paid time off (PTO).

• 10 paid holidays each year.

• Paid parental leave: 3 weeks for bonding and 8 weeks for caregiver leave.

• Accident and life insurance coverage.

• Short- and long-term disability insurance.

• Competitive 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan.

• Employees’ Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), allowing eligible employees to buy company stock at a discounted rate.

• Reasonable accommodations available for individuals with disabilities.