Responsible AI Officer. The role, the market signal, and how to build it in your org.
Sets AI governance policy and coordinates risk review across the organization. Works with business, legal, security and technical owners on decision authority, evidence, escalation and accountability.
In a workforce of people and AI agents, this role takes shape around the workflows it supports. Define its responsibilities and handoffs, then prepare people to perform that work.
Source snapshot 2026-07-17. Postings do not confirm that a vacancy is still open.
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What the postings ask this role to do
1,168 tasks extracted from real Responsible AI Officer job descriptions, classified Automate / Augment / Human-only. In this source classification, 2.3% of task statements are automation candidates. The share does not measure working time or demonstrated agent performance.
- Set up a job alert
- Join the talent network
- Prepare governance summaries.
- Track defects within azure devops.
- Collect audit evidence for sox it compliance.
- Perform reperformance testing, sampling, and evidence validation to assess control execution.
- Develop strategies to ensure the ethical and responsible use of artificial intelligence technologies.
- Draft clear, risk-based issue descriptions and contribute to discussions on risk severity and impact.
- Document process flows, control descriptions, and key risks based on walkthroughs and artifact reviews.
- Develop and document test steps and test scripts aligned to approved testing methodologies and risk frameworks.
- Facilitate training sessions to enhance team understanding of responsible ai practices.
- Contribute to continuous improvement of data & ai governance testing and advisory practices.
- Support ongoing governance forums, working groups, or risk discussions related to data and ai governance.
- Assist stakeholders in understanding risk and control expectations, governance standards, and testing outcomes.
- Apply professional judgment to determine control effectiveness, identify control gaps, and assess residual risk.
From the market's version of this role to your version of it
Start with the work, not the org chart.
Define what this role will build, configure, decide and check. Connect that work to an enterprise-specific project and agreed assessment evidence.