AI Governance Center of Excellence (CoE) Lead

Quick Facts

Based in Hamburg or Dortmund. Co-Leadership program for leadership in part-time arrangements, flexible working hours, and mobile work. 30 vacation days, life-long learning and training opportunities, and corporate benefits including health management and discounted insurance offers.

Description

You will lead the Center of Excellence for Artificial Intelligence Governance and develop an end-to-end, practice-ready AI governance framework. The goal is to enable AI use that is safe, responsible, and value-creating across the group—while still allowing utilization and scaling.

Responsibilities

• Provide disciplinary and technical leadership for the AI Governance CoE across expert disciplines
• Advance holistic AI governance and design it for secure and responsible group-wide AI deployment
• Shape and interconnect governance dimensions, especially regulatory/compliance needs, technological governance, processes, responsibilities, and organizational guardrails
• Translate existing governance fundamentals into a practical framework that creates orientation and security
• Coordinate AI governance expertise and collaborate with specialist units across IT, risk, compliance, and security
• Develop the team and build AI governance competencies and awareness for responsible AI handling
• Support group-wide activities for building, using, and responsibly evolving Artificial Intelligence
• Support the Tribe Lead on cross-cutting strategic and transformation topics related to AI

Requirements

• Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Economics/Business Administration, or a comparable field
• Proven leadership experience in the AI governance domain, ideally within a regulated environment
• Experience designing and evolving AI governance, including regulatory, technological, and organizational questions
• Solid understanding of AI technologies and ability to derive requirements for secure and responsible enterprise AI use
• Experience integrating different governance dimensions into actionable guardrails, roles, and processes
• Experience driving change/transformation and aligning differing stakeholder perspectives
• Strong communication in German and English, confident stakeholder management, and ability to build sustainable networks quickly
• Independent working style; able to guide decisions and lead teams even when frameworks change

Benefits

• Co-Leadership program for part-time leadership
• 30 vacation days
• Flexible working hours and mobile work
• Ongoing learning and training support
• Company health management
• Discounted insurance offers and corporate benefits