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Risk Manager roles across governance, risk, compliance, and AI governance.
Open Risk Manager roles (4)
Senior Model Risk Manager - AI/ML
Third Party Risk Manager, APAC
Senior Technology and Security Risk Manager
Model Risk Manager
About the Risk Manager role
The Risk Manager owns how an organization understands and controls a category of risk: operational, technology, enterprise, or increasingly model and AI risk. Managers run risk assessments, set tolerances with leadership, oversee controls, and report risk to senior management and the board. They are the bridge between front-line risk-taking and executive accountability.
What a Risk Manager does
- Own a risk domain and its assessment, appetite, and reporting
- Set risk tolerances and escalate breaches
- Oversee the design and effectiveness of risk controls
- Lead a team of risk analysts
- Report risk posture to senior management and the board
- Build out model risk and AI risk oversight as adoption grows
Core skills
- Strong command of risk frameworks and quantification
- Executive communication and board reporting
- People and program leadership
- Judgment about acceptable exposure
- Cross-functional influence
- Fluency in technology and, increasingly, AI risk
Certifications that help
Train for these through the GRC Careers certification guides.
Where it sits on the career ladder
← Risk Analyst · Risk Manager (Management) · Chief Risk Officer →
How to break into this role
Risk Managers generally rise from analyst or specialist roles, or move in from audit, finance, or a technical domain. What distinguishes the step up is the ability to set risk appetite with leadership, own a domain, and communicate risk clearly to executives and the board.
BLS put the 2024 median at $78,420. In 2026, market trackers show averages from roughly $99,000 to $120,000, with the top quartile above $160,000. Financial centers and senior governance roles sit at the top of that range.
Sources: BLS, 2024 median
FAQ
A Risk Analyst measures and tracks risk; a Risk Manager owns a risk domain, sets tolerances with leadership, manages a team, and reports to executives and the board.
Model risk management is the discipline of governing the risk that models, including AI, produce wrong or misused outputs. It is one of the fastest-growing areas of the risk function.
The path typically leads to Director of Risk and then Chief Risk Officer, the executive accountable for the enterprise risk function.
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