# Senior Manager - Data & AI Governance

**Company:** [Mercury](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/mercury)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Business Operations
**Salary:** $203k – $282k/yr
**Experience:** 10+ years
**Skills:** Data Governance, Ai Governance, Responsible Ai, Machine Learning, Generative AI, LLMs, Data Quality, Data Lineage, Metadata Management, Information Security, Model Risk Management, Privacy, Nist Ai Rmf, Iso/Iec 42001, Dama-Dmbok
**Posted:** 2026-08-13

> Leads Mercury’s enterprise-wide data and AI governance program, establishing risk-based standards, accountability, and responsible-use processes across data, engineering, product, security, legal, compliance, and business teams. Requires 10+ years in governance, technology risk, model risk, privacy, compliance, or related disciplines.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Develop and implement enterprise Data and AI Governance frameworks, policies, standards, and operating models.
- Establish accountability for data ownership, stewardship, quality, lineage, classification, access, retention, and appropriate use.
- Create risk-based governance for AI use cases across intake, assessment, approval, implementation, monitoring, and retirement.
- Develop responsible-AI principles addressing transparency, explainability, fairness, privacy, security, human oversight, reliability, and regulatory compliance.
- Maintain inventories of material data assets, AI use cases, and governance decisions.
- Define risk-based classifications and requirements based on sensitivity, complexity, materiality, and customer or regulatory impact.
- Establish governance for internally developed, vendor-provided, embedded, and generative AI capabilities.
- Embed governance requirements into product, engineering, data, business, and change-management processes.
- Coordinate with Model Risk Management on model classification and model-risk requirements.
- Partner with Information Security, Technology Risk, Legal, and Compliance on data protection, cybersecurity, privacy, consumer protection, regulatory, contractual, and technology-control considerations.
- Develop processes to identify, document, escalate, and remediate data- and AI-related risks and issues.
- Establish metrics and reporting for management and Board committees covering data quality, governance maturity, AI adoption, exceptions, incidents, and emerging risks.
- Monitor regulatory developments, industry practices, and emerging risks related to data and AI.
- Support Data and AI governance forums and committees and facilitate documented decisions.
- Build and lead a Data and AI Governance team as the program matures.
- Promote responsible, transparent, and risk-aligned use of data and AI.

## Requirements
- 10+ years of relevant experience in data governance, AI governance, technology risk, information governance, model risk, privacy, compliance, or a related discipline.
- Experience building or materially enhancing a data governance, AI governance, or responsible-AI program.
- Strong understanding of data ownership, stewardship, quality, lineage, metadata, classification, access, retention, and lifecycle management.
- Working knowledge of AI and machine-learning concepts, including generative AI, large language models, training and inference data, explainability, bias, performance monitoring, and human oversight.
- Experience developing practical, risk-based policies and governance processes in a fast-moving technology environment.
- Ability to distinguish data governance, AI governance, model risk, information security, privacy, and compliance responsibilities while coordinating across functions.
- Strong judgment balancing innovation, customer outcomes, regulatory expectations, and risk management.
- Ability to influence senior executives, technical teams, and business leaders without relying solely on formal authority.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including explaining technical and risk concepts to executive and Board audiences.
- Experience leading teams and managing cross-functional programs.
- Strong first-line/second-line-of-defense judgment and understanding of enterprise Risk's role in governing and challenging Engineering.
- Pragmatic, decisive, collaborative, and technically curious approach.

## Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in fintech, financial services, technology, or another highly regulated environment.
- Familiarity with banking regulatory expectations for data management, model risk, third-party risk, privacy, consumer protection, and information security.
- Experience with DAMA-DMBOK, NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42001, or comparable frameworks.
- Experience governing third-party data, vendor AI solutions, and embedded AI capabilities.
- Technical or analytical experience in data architecture, data engineering, machine learning, analytics, or software development.
- Experience in a company-building or bank-building environment.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Total rewards include base salary, equity (stock options/RSUs), and benefits.
- US employees in New York City, Los Angeles, Seattle, or the San Francisco Bay Area: **$225,800–$282,300 USD** base salary.
- US employees outside of New York City, Los Angeles, Seattle, or the San Francisco Bay Area: **$203,300–$254,100 USD** base salary.
- Offers are based on experience, expertise, geographic location, and internal pay equity.

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