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Lead AI Risk & Governance Consultant

Northern Trust
AI GovernanceHybridFull-timeChicago, IL

Northern Trust is hiring for the role of Lead AI Risk & Governance Consultant, Chicago, IL (Hybrid). This is an AI Governance role in the governance, risk, and compliance field. Review the full details below and apply directly with Northern Trust.

Organization: Northern TrustLocation: Chicago, ILWorkplace: HybridFocus: AI GovernancePosted: Jul 29, 2026
Northern Trust is hiring for this AI Governance role in Chicago, one of the metros GRC Careers tracks for governance, risk, and compliance hiring. See other GRC roles in Chicago →

Evaluates enterprise AI and quantitative model implementations against internal risk frameworks, OCC guidelines, and Responsible AI principles. Conducts independent risk assessments of generative AI applications and third-party models. Delivers risk evaluation reports to central governance committees.

Location and market context

This role is based in Chicago on-site. Local candidates benefit from being close to Northern Trust's teams and regional hiring market. Confirm the exact in-office expectation and any relocation support with the employer.

About AI governance roles

AI governance sits at the intersection of policy, risk, and engineering. Teams are standing up model inventories, use-case intake and review, risk classification, and control monitoring as regulation and board scrutiny of AI intensify. Roles like this one are typically evaluated against frameworks such as NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42001, the EU AI Act, and internal model-risk and privacy practices.

How to position yourself for this AI governance role

Strong candidates emphasize experience translating policy into operational controls, working across legal, compliance, security, product, and data teams, documenting AI system risks, and supporting governance processes. In your resume and outreach, tie your experience to how Northern Trust would apply NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42001, the EU AI Act, and internal model-risk and privacy practices, and lead with concrete outcomes rather than duties.

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