AI Governance Center of Excellence (CoE) Lead

Quick Facts

AI Governance Center of Excellence (CoE) Lead — lead and develop a holistic AI-governance framework for safe, responsible, and value-creating AI use across the enterprise.

Description

You will lead the Center of Excellence for Artificial Intelligence Governance and evolve AI governance so the group can use and scale AI securely and responsibly. The role focuses on translating regulatory and compliance, technological governance, processes, and organizational requirements into practical guardrails—enabling guidance, safety, and value creation.

Responsibilities

• Disciplinary and technical leadership of the AI Governance CoE with experts from different specialties.
• Develop and shape an end-to-end AI governance framework for safe, responsible, and value-creating AI use in the group.
• Design and integrate governance dimensions, especially regulatory/compliance requirements, technological governance, processes, responsibilities, and organizational guardrails.
• Turn existing governance foundations into a practical, scalable framework that provides guidance and security.
• Coordinate and provide AI governance expertise and collaborate with relevant business, IT, risk, compliance, and security units.
• Develop your team and build AI governance competencies and awareness for responsible AI use.
• Contribute to group-wide initiatives to build, use, and responsibly evolve artificial intelligence.
• Support the Tribe Lead on cross-cutting strategic and transformation topics for AI.

Requirements

• Completed degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Business Administration, Economics, or a comparable field.
• Strong leadership experience in the AI context, ideally within a regulated environment.
• Experience in designing and evolving AI governance, including knowledge of regulatory, technological, and organizational issues.
• Sound understanding of AI technologies and the ability to derive requirements for secure and responsible AI deployment.
• Experience combining different governance dimensions into workable guardrails, roles, and processes.
• Experience driving change and transformation and aligning different stakeholder interests and perspectives.
• Excellent communication skills in German and English; confident stakeholder management and ability to quickly build sustainable networks.
• Independent working style with the ability to provide direction, drive decisions, and lead teams under changing conditions.

Benefits

• 30 vacation days
• Flexible working hours
• Mobile working
• Training and lifelong learning
• Company health management
• Discounted insurance offers and Corporate Benefits
• Co-Leadership program supporting part-time leadership