Senior AI Governance Consultant

Location: London, Paddington; hybrid working with approximately 2 days per week onsite

Salary: £80,000–£110,000 per year, subject to experience

Company

Global digital engineering and technology consultancy supporting organisations with emerging technologies and complex digital transformation programmes.

What you will do

• Translate AI governance frameworks into practical self-serve guardrails and reusable patterns.
• Embed AI governance policies across client organisations and advise engineering teams and citizen developers.
• Assess AI use cases and determine appropriate architecture, testing, oversight and monitoring based on risk.
• Lead requirements and buy/build/extend decisions for an AI governance control plane.
• Review novel and high-risk AI use cases with Risk and Security stakeholders.
• Maintain AI model, agent and use-case risk registers while facilitating workshops with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Requirements

• 3–4+ years of genuine AI Governance experience, ideally 4+ years.
• Strong knowledge of AI governance frameworks, controls and operating standards, including relevant experience with ISO 42001, NIST AI RMF, GDPR and/or the EU AI Act.
• Understanding of AI security and evaluation, including prompt injection, jailbreaks, tool misuse and agentic AI risks.
• Strong Data Governance knowledge across classification, cataloguing, quality and access management.
• Experience working across Risk, Compliance, Security, Data and Engineering functions, preferably in consulting or client-facing roles within complex or regulated environments.
• Strong communication, facilitation and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to explain complex AI Governance concepts clearly.

Nice to have

• Experience with AI governance or control-plane tooling, policy-as-code, automation or technology selection.
• Short notice period or immediate availability.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on complex AI Governance programmes with enterprise clients.
• Exposure to emerging AI technologies and governance challenges.
• Opportunity to help develop AI Governance capabilities and influence safe AI adoption.
• Collaborate with AI, technology, risk and security professionals.

Hiring process

• Technical interview.
• Experience and soft-skills interview.
• Final in-person meeting.