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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Executive Director, AI Risk & Governance - **Company:** Janus Henderson - **Location:** London, UK - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Software Deployment - **Published:** September 29, 2026 - **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/A52517C4BF384E93B06806A6B49E8101/job/ ## About the Role * Strong knowledge of AI regulation and governance frameworks, including the EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF and relevant industry standards. * Proven experience owning or operating enterprise policy, governance and risk frameworks, ideally relating to AI, technology, data or model risk. * Strong understanding of AI risks, controls and monitoring practices, including risks arising from individual or collective use of AI. * Experience establishing monitoring capabilities, adequately resourced and supported by effective technology solutions. * Experience establishing ethical AI and agentic or autonomous conduct standards. * Ability to translate regulatory requirements into practical business controls and operating models. * Experience providing oversight and challenge within a regulated environment. * Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence senior decision-making. * Experience in financial services or another regulated industry. * Experience leading others, chairing governance forums or driving decision-making across senior stakeholder groups. Nice to have skills * Experience with AI governance platforms, model inventories or risk workflow tools. * Understanding of cloud, data and technology control environments relevant to AI deployment. * Familiarity with third-party/vendor AI risk management, including due diligence and ongoing oversight. * Knowledge of responsible AI principles, including explainability, transparency, fairness and human oversight. * Experience designing or contributing to training, awareness or adoption materials for AI governance. Supervisory responsibilities * Yes Potential for growth * Mentoring * Leadership development programs * Regular training * Career development services * Continuing education courses You will be expected to understand the regulatory obligations of the firm and abide by the regulated entity requirements and JHI policies applicable for your role. ## Description AI Regulation, Legislation and Industry Standards * Monitors the regulatory and legislative landscape for rule-making developments. Interprets the regulatory implications of AI - e.g. EU AI Act and disseminates this effectively across the business * Owns legislative, regulatory and other rule-based (standards) interpretation, working with the Governance Implementation team and other relevant teams to translate requirements into policies, guardrails, automated platform controls * E.g. EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act, NIST AI RMF, ISO41002, national or state law, financial regulation AI Policy & Risk Framework * AI Policy owner for the firm, working in partnership with Head of AI, and other relevant stakeholders - Data Privacy, CISO, Technology, * Owns AI Risk Appetite and Risk Framework including risk tiering applied to requests for approvals * Responsible for establishing ethical AI and agentic or autonomous conduct standards * Provides advice and governance implementation requirements arising from laws, regs, standards or policies. * Responsible for ensuring AI Risk management interacts seamlessly with other Risk Management Policies and Procedures - e.g. Risk Taxonomy and RCSA, Risk Events Risk Oversight, Monitoring & Governance * Responsible for establishing monitoring capabilities supported by effective technology solutions * Responsible overseeing and monitoring AI use and outcomes to ensure compliance with relevant AI legislation, regulation, internal standards and policies * Responsible for overseeing risks arising from individual or collective use of AI, including: * model drift * hallucinations * access breaches * prompt misuse * bias indicators * control failures * inappropriate non-business use * Responsible for chairing the "Approval Body" within the governance framework * Carry out other duties as assigned What to expect when you join our firm * Hybrid working and reasonable accommodations * Generous Holiday policies * Excellent Health and Wellbeing benefits including corporate membership to Wellhub * Paid volunteer time to step away from your desk and into the community * Support to grow through professional development courses, tuition/qualification reimbursement and more * Maternal/paternal leave benefits and family services * All employee events including networking opportunities and social activities * Lunch allowance for use within our subsidized onsite canteen Must have skills ## Related Videos - [Rethinking Recruiting: What you didn’t know about Responsible AI](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1090-rethinking-recruiting-what-you-didn-t-know-about-responsible-ai) - [Edit Your Future: Queerverse Radical AI](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/909-edit-your-future-queerverse-radical-ai) - [100 times more frequent deployments: How did we create a high performance team?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1069-100-times-more-frequent-deployments-how-did-we-create-a-high-performance-team) - [Angstfreude - AI and Corporate Culture - The Thrill and the Threat](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100354-angstfreude-ai-and-corporate-culture-the-thrill-and-the-threat) - [Responsible AI @ Microsoft - Governance, Standards, Learnings](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1544-responsible-ai-microsoft-governance-standards-learnings) - [AI is dead, long live AK](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1093-ai-is-dead-long-live-ak) ## Related Articles - [Should AI be Regulated? 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