AI governance and GRC articles
Everything we have written on governance, risk, and compliance careers, in one place. These articles are published on blog.execsearches.com, the content side of the ExecSearches network, and cover the roles themselves, the credentials that matter, and how people actually move into this field.
Roles and job descriptions
If you are writing or scoping an AI governance role, start here.
AI Governance Job Descriptions: The Leading AI GRC and Governance Roles
The AI governance and GRC roles US employers are actually hiring for, and how each job description differs from the tech or compliance role it is often mistaken for.
AI Governance Job Titles, Roles, and What Employers Are Actually Looking For
How to tell a real AI governance role from a rebranded tech or compliance one, by reading the title, the reporting line, and the responsibilities.
Careers in AI Risk and Governance: The People Who Ask the Hard Questions
Why AI governance and risk careers exist at all: organizations still need human judgment to decide whether an AI-generated answer can be trusted.
10 Questions Every Chief Audit Executive Should Ask About AI Risk and Governance
Ten questions a Chief Audit Executive should be putting to the business about AI governance, model risk, and where accountability actually sits.
A GRC Guide to Knowing Your Tech
A plain guide to the technology a governance, risk, and compliance professional is expected to understand, and how deep that understanding needs to go.
Careers, credentials, and moving into the field
For professionals building a path into AI governance.
The Career Pivot: Why the AIGP Is Becoming the Definitive AI Governance Certification
Why the IAPP AIGP has become the standard credential for professionals moving into AI governance, and who it is and is not worth it for.
The AI Policy Analyst: A Rising Role in Responsible AI
What AI policy analysts actually do, the skills employers screen for, and the path from analyst to AI policy and governance leadership.
From Mission-Driven Work to AI Governance
A career transition guide for nonprofit, government, healthcare, and philanthropy professionals moving into AI governance.
The New Architecture of AI Governance: Building Trust Through Leadership
How accountability for AI is being structured inside organizations, and which leadership roles are being created to carry it.
5 Surprising Shifts Redefining Your Security Career and Compliance Roadmap
Five changes reshaping security and compliance careers, and what they mean for the skills worth building next.
Governance in practice
Why this work exists and what happens when nobody owns it.
The Billion-Dollar Blind Spot: A GRC Case Study on MTA East Side Access
What a multi-billion dollar transit overrun teaches about governance, oversight, and the cost of a blind spot nobody owned.
AI Is Changing Faster Than Most Organizations Can Govern It
The pace problem at the centre of AI governance, and why the gap between capability and oversight keeps widening.
Introducing GRC Careers, Our Cousin Site for Governance, Risk, and Compliance
Why we built a specialist job board for governance, risk, and compliance, and how it relates to ExecSearches.
A Map and a Radar: What We Built This Week at GRC Careers
A look at the tools behind GRC Careers: how roles are mapped, and how new openings are found.
Writing one of these roles yourself?
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