Associate Director - CIB Business Risk - AI Governance Lead

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HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organisations in the world, with operations in 64 countries and territories. We aim to be where the growth is, enabling businesses to thrive and economies to prosper, and, ultimately, helping people to fulfil their hopes and realise their ambitions.

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Associate Director - CIB Business Risk - AI Governance Lead.

In this role, you will:

• Lead the global CIB AI governance agenda, ensuring consistent standards and controls across regions.
• Define and maintain end-to-end governance processes for AI use cases, from intake and risk assessment through approval, monitoring and closure.
• Advise teams on governance requirements throughout the AI lifecycle, including business-as-usual obligations and risk assessments.
• Keep governance frameworks current as regulations, policies and industry expectations evolve.
• Simplify and improve processes while avoiding duplication and maintaining robust risk oversight.
• Provide constructive challenge and risk advice to senior stakeholders on data, privacy, security, resilience, third-party and customer risks.
• Establish clear ownership, accountability and human oversight across the AI lifecycle.
• Run governance forums, steering committees and reporting routines, ensuring decisions and actions are documented and tracked.
• Develop key risk indicators and management information, escalating emerging risks and control weaknesses with practical remediation plans.
• Collaborate across Technology, Data, Compliance, Legal and Operations to embed responsible AI, support audits and regulatory engagement, and build organisational capability through guidance, playbooks and training.

To be successful you will:

• Have proven experience in technology risk, business risk or operational resilience governance.
• Demonstrate experience leading senior governance initiatives and delivering outcomes across complex organisations.
• Understand AI and machine-learning concepts, including common risk themes and control considerations.
• Be confident influencing senior stakeholders and providing clear, pragmatic challenge.
• Have strong programme and stakeholder-management skills across teams, regions and competing priorities.
• Communicate complex technical and risk topics clearly to business audiences and decision-makers.
• Demonstrate sound judgement, high integrity and accountability for risk outcomes.
• Hold a relevant degree or equivalent experience in risk, technology, data, engineering, mathematics or a related field.
• Ideally have experience operating AI governance frameworks, responsible-AI practices or AI risk controls at scale.
• Bring useful additional expertise in model risk, data governance, privacy, information security, third-party risk, regulatory standards, cloud technology, delivery methods or working in global matrix organisations.

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