Senior AI Governance & Risk Analyst

Please note: This position is onsite and not remote. Candidates must be based in the Houston area, as relocation assistance is not provided. Only individuals authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship will be considered.

Job Title: Senior AI Governance & Risk Analyst
Job Type: Contract (~12 months)
Job Salary: $54/hour
Job Schedule: M-F, 40 hrs/week
Job Location: Houston, TX 77002
Pre-Employment Requirements: Successful completion of a background check, drug screening, and any applicable assessments

Position Overview

We are seeking a Senior AI Governance & Risk Analyst to support the development and operation of an enterprise AI Governance, Risk, and Compliance program. This role will evaluate AI and automated decision-system risks, administer governance processes, maintain compliance documentation, assess third-party AI solutions, and coordinate reviews across legal, privacy, cybersecurity, procurement, data governance, civil rights, accessibility, records management, and business teams.

This is a governance and compliance position, not a traditional data analyst, data scientist, or AI engineering role.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain AI governance policies, procedures, workflows, templates, and approval criteria.
  
• Manage an inventory of AI systems, use cases, models, pilots, and AI-enabled vendors.
  
• Administer AI intake, triage, risk classification, review, approval, monitoring, and reassessment processes.
  
• Conduct or coordinate AI risk and impact assessments involving privacy, security, regulatory, civil-rights, accessibility, data, vendor, operational, and reputational risks.
  
• Assign risk tiers, identify required controls, document residual risk, and escalate high-risk use cases.
  
• Maintain regulatory crosswalks, risk registers, control documentation, approvals, exceptions, and audit-ready evidence.
  
• Review AI vendors, procurement documentation, data practices, security and privacy controls, audit rights, retention requirements, and incident obligations.
  
• Track compliance findings, remediation activities, exceptions, incidents, and governance metrics.
  
• Prepare executive-ready dashboards, reports, training materials, and recommendations.
  
• Coordinate with technical, legal, compliance, procurement, and business stakeholders.
  

Requirements

Qualifications

• Senior-level experience in AI governance, responsible AI, technology risk, cybersecurity GRC, privacy, regulatory compliance, internal audit, data governance, enterprise risk, or a related field.
  
• Working knowledge of artificial intelligence, generative AI, automated decision systems, and associated governance risks.
  
• Experience conducting risk assessments, impact assessments, compliance reviews, control evaluations, or technology audits.
  
• Experience translating laws, regulations, policies, or standards into operational controls and documented processes.
  
• Strong knowledge of risk classification, mitigating controls, residual risk, issue management, and remediation.
  
• Experience maintaining risk registers, compliance crosswalks, control matrices, assessment files, or audit evidence.
  
• Strong written communication, research, documentation, organization, and stakeholder-management skills.
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Direct experience supporting an enterprise AI governance or responsible AI program.
  
• Experience with AI risk assessments, algorithmic impact assessments, privacy impact assessments, or AI inventories.
  
• Third-party risk, technology procurement, or AI vendor-assessment experience.
  
• Government, public-sector, criminal justice, or other regulated-environment experience.
  
• Experience developing executive governance reports, dashboards, policies, training, or compliance frameworks.