Senior AI Governance Counsel

The role

You will build, roll out, and operate an enterprise AI governance framework. This involves translating global AI and privacy regulations into practical policies and risk assessments for the business.

What you will do

• Build, roll out, and embed Adyen's enterprise-wide AI governance framework, policies, and standards.
• Design and operationalize AI risk and impact assessments across the AI lifecycle.
• Interpret the EU AI Act, NIST AI Risk Management Framework, and other global AI laws into practical policies.
• Support teams maintaining AI inventories by defining governance parameters and requirements.
• Develop enterprise guidance for evaluating AI systems regarding performance, fairness, and explainability.
• Design risk-tiered processes and green paths for responsible AI adoption.
• Translate model-evaluation techniques into clear procedures for technology teams.
• Partner with Risk, Security, Product, Compliance, Legal, Regulatory, and Engineering to run the program.
• Advise on privacy considerations across the AI lifecycle.
• Design and deliver AI governance training and promote AI literacy.

Required qualifications

• 7+ Years in AI Governance/Privacy
• Proven background building, deploying, and managing global AI or privacy governance programs
• Qualified lawyer or governance professional with substantial experience in AI governance, privacy, or technology risk
• Solid working knowledge of the EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, and ISO/IEC 42001
• Solid working knowledge of global privacy regulations (GDPR, CCPA/CPRA)
• Familiarity with LLMs, autonomy levels, human-in-the-loop design, and tool/action permissioning
• Understanding of model evaluation techniques including fairness, bias, drift, performance, explainability, and red teaming
• Skilled at converting complex AI regulations into practical guidance for non-technical stakeholders
• Ability to partner with and drive adoption across Risk, Security, Product, Compliance, Legal, Regulatory, and Engineering
• Strong drafting, communication, and stakeholder-management skills

Nice to have

• US jurisdiction admission
• Prior experience in payments, financial services, or other heavily regulated industries
• Relevant industry certifications such as IAPP AIGP, CIPP/E, CIPP/US, or CIPM

About the company

Adyen provides payments, data, and financial products in a single solution for customers like Meta, Uber, H&M, and Microsoft. They are a financial technology platform.