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Global Head of Data & AI Governance & Oversight, SVP

State Street
United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 26 May 2026
💰 $337,500/yr($225,000/yr$337,500/yr)

About the role

The Head of Data & AI Governance and Risk is accountable for ensuring that all enterprise Data, AI, and Agentic AI capabilities are wellgoverned, highquality, trusted, and regulatorready, while enabling innovation to scale safely across all lines of business. 

  • This role defines and maintains the enterprise policies, standards, and governance operating model for Data and AI and serves as the single global point of accountability for Data and AI–related regulatory, audit, and supervisory engagement. 

  • The role operates proactively, anticipating regulatory direction and strengthening the firm’s posture ahead of examinations. It actively engages in all ongoing regulatory efforts related to data, risk, and AI, partnering with appropriate bank owners to ensure coordinated execution and durable remediation. 

  • In partnership with each line of business, this role defines the strategic target state for Data and AI governance, ensuring clarity and consistency across ownership, stewardship, authoritative sourcing, data quality, and approval expectations. 

  • The role is intentionally independent of platform build, model development, and usecase delivery. Success is measured by regulatory confidence, enterprise trust, data quality, and speed enabled through strong governance and streamlined processes. 

 

 Role Mandate 

Establish and operate enterprise-wide governance, risk, and regulatory oversight for Data, AI, and Agentic AI—including authoritative data sourcing—and proactively elevate the firm’s regulatory posture while enabling streamlined, standard approval of AI capabilities across the enterprise. 

Role Purpose 

The Head of Data & AI Governance and Risk is accountable for ensuring that all enterprise Data, AI, and Agentic AI capabilities are wellgoverned, highquality, trusted, and regulatorready, while enabling innovation to scale safely across all lines of business. 

This role defines and maintains the enterprise policies, standards, and governance operating model for Data and AI and serves as the single global point of accountability for Data and AI–related regulatory, audit, and supervisory engagement. 

The role operates proactively, anticipating regulatory direction and strengthening the firm’s posture ahead of examinations. It actively engages in all ongoing regulatory efforts related to data, risk, and AI, partnering with appropriate bank owners to ensure coordinated execution and durable remediation. 

In partnership with each line of business, this role defines the strategic target state for Data and AI governance, ensuring clarity and consistency across ownership, stewardship, authoritative sourcing, data quality, and approval expectations. 

The role is intentionally independent of platform build, model development, and usecase delivery. Success is measured by regulatory confidence, enterprise trust, data quality, and speed enabled through strong governance and streamlined processes. 

 

Key Responsibilities 

Enterprise Data, AI & Agentic

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