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AI risk roles identify, measure, and manage the risks that AI and machine-learning systems create across the enterprise.
AI risk roles bring discipline to everything that can go wrong when an organization relies on AI: model failure, bias, security, regulatory exposure, and the operational risk of automated decisions at scale. They build the AI risk register, set risk appetite, validate and monitor models, and feed the enterprise risk picture. The discipline draws on model risk management, where banking's SR 11-7 has long set the bar, and extends it to machine-learning and generative systems.
As models multiply, AI risk has become one of the most directly transferable skill sets in the field, the bridge between quantitative work and governance.
AI Risk Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
What does an AI risk role do?
Identifies, measures, and manages the risks AI systems create, model failure, bias, security, and regulatory exposure, by building risk registers, validating models, and monitoring them in production.
Is AI risk related to model risk management?
Yes. AI risk builds on model risk management practice, including the SR 11-7 standard from banking, and extends it to machine-learning and generative-AI models.
Open AI Risk Jobs (41)
Compliance Innovation & AI Lead
Data and AI Risk & Ethics Specialist
Model Governance Senior Analyst
Financial Risk Principal Consultant (Senior Manager)
Head of Financial Risk Management - Bitnomial
Model Risk Management Specialist
Underwriting/Credit Model Risk Senior Manager - Machine Learning
Compliance Analyst - AI Governance
Senior Manager Risk and Controls
AI Governance Specialist
Senior Market Risk Manager
Global Head of Data & AI Governance & Oversight, SVP
Financial Model Risk Management Lead
Quantitative Analytics Manager, Affirm Bank Model Governance
Senior Product Manager, AI Risk Strategy (Buy/Sell Crypto)
AI Auditor
Senior Privacy and AI Counsel
Staff Program Manager, Compliance
Senior AI Governance Counsel
Head of Security & AI Governance
Cyber AI Governance and Privacy Senior Consultant
Senior Manager - Data & AI Governance
Principal Program Manager, Cyber Security - Frontier AI Models
Senior Manager, Data & AI Governance
Director AI Governance & Business Integration
VP, Risk Data & Analytics
Risk Manager, AI & GenAI Model Risk
Principal, AI Governance
Counsel, AI Risk & Compliance
AI Governance Advisor
Cybersecurity AI Risk and Governance Director
AVP, Automated Controls (AI Risk Focus)
Director, AI Governance Attorney
Governance & Responsible AI Leader
Data and AI Governance Lead, Computing Services
AI Governance Analyst
Director, Risk Model Validation
Director, Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC)
Model Risk Management Lead, Machine Learning
(Senior) Principal Solutions Engineer-AI and Data Governance
Vice President, Responsible AI
AI Risk Jobs jobs: what the market looks like right now
A snapshot built from the 41 AI Risk Jobs roles currently on this page.
What these roles pay
Of the 41 open AI Risk Jobs roles on this page, 17 publish a salary range. Across those:
- Median advertised midpoint: $179k
- Middle half of the market: $118k to $231k
- Full advertised range: $79k to $363k
Computed from the live postings on this page, not from survey data, and recalculated every time the board refreshes. Roles without a published range are excluded.
Where the work is
- Work mode: 13 remote, 4 hybrid, 24 on-site or unstated.
- Seniority mix: senior (22), mid (9), executive (5), director (5)
- Employers hiring more than one: Affirm (4), GE Vernova (2), Kraken (2), Mercury (2)
Skills these postings ask for
- AI inventory and use-case intake
- model risk and impact assessment
- ISO/IEC 42001 and NIST AI RMF implementation
- EU AI Act readiness
- AI vendor and third-party assessment
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Certifications that come up most
None of these are universally required, but they appear often enough in AI Risk Jobs postings to be worth knowing: AIGP, CIPP/US, CISA, CRISC. The certification academy covers what each one actually tests and who it is for.
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