AI Governance Lead

About Us

American Century Investments® is a leading global asset manager with over 65 years of experience helping a broad base of clients achieve their financial goals. Our expertise spans global equities and fixed income, multi-asset strategies, ETFs, and private investments.

Privately controlled and independent, we focus solely on investment management. But there’s an unexpected side to us, too. We direct over 40% of our profits every year—more than $2 billion since 2000—to the Stowers Institute for Medical Research. Our ongoing financial support drives the Institute’s breakthrough work and mission of defeating life-threatening diseases like cancer and Alzheimer’s. So, the better we do for our clients, the more we can do for everyone.

All 1,400 of us across the globe are inspired every day by the unique difference our hard work can make in so many lives. It shows in the curiosity we bring to every initiative, the deep relationships we build with our clients, and the way we treat each other in the hallway. If you’re excited to learn more about us, we can’t wait to learn more about you.

Role Summary

We are seeking a strategic and detail-oriented AI Governance Lead to develop, implement, and oversee governance policies and frameworks for AI initiatives across the organization. This role will ensure responsible AI deployment, manage risk assessments, and facilitate cross-functional collaboration to embed governance principles into all AI-related projects.

This hybrid position will be based out of our Kansas City, MO office.

This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship. Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. without visa sponsorship, now or in the future.

How You Will Make an Impact

• Develop and maintain AI governance policies, standards, and ethical principles.

• Oversee the AI intake and Inventory process and workflow, integrate and adopt a framework for evaluating AI use cases, and facilitate AI use case assessments.

• Facilitate AI risk assessments, provide AI risk tolerance reports to relevant committees, and identify risk-related issues needing escalation to the AI Governance Committee.

• Attend architecture review meetings representing AI Governance, handle AI Governance responses to architecture requests, and manage the list of approved AI solutions.

• Develop metrics to evaluate AI governance effectiveness and recommend improvements.

• Oversee the development of AI training programs and workshops to raise awareness and educate users on AI risks and best practices.

• Supervise responses to RFPs, due diligence, and other AI-related questionnaires.

• Develop and execute strategies to enhance internal AI communications.

• Stay current on AI regulations and compliance requirements.

• Collaborate with engineers, data scientists, and product managers to embed governance into AI projects.

• Design and optimize business processes to support scalable and compliant AI governance operations.

• Integrate business process management (BPM) principles into AI governance workflows to ensure efficiency and accountability.

• Conduct SWOT analysis on competing AI technologies in the marketplace to facilitate build vs. buy decisions.

What You Bring to the Team (Required)

• Expertise in business process management, including process mapping, optimization, and automation.

• 2+ years of data governance experience.

• Strong analytical, problem solving, and project management skills.

• Deep understanding of governance frameworks (IT, Risk, Data, etc.).

• Solid understanding of AI technologies and their applications.

• Ability to lead cross-functional teams and facilitate strategic discussions.

• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.

• Demonstrates the American Century Investments Winning Behaviors: Client Focused, Courageous and Accountable, Collaborative, Curious and Adaptable, Competitively Driven.

The above statements are not intended to be a complete list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required.

What We Offer

• Competitive compensation package with bonus plan

• Generous PTO and competitive benefits

• 401k with 5% company match plus annual performance-based discretionary contribution

• Tuition reimbursement, formal mentorship program, live and online learning

Learn more about our benefits and perks.

Employees are required to be in the office on a scheduled frequency. Adherence to this schedule is essential to fulfilling the expectations of the role.

American Century Investments is committed to complying with the Americans with Disabilities Act and all other applicable Equal Employment Opportunity laws and regulations. As such, American Century strives to provide a reasonable accommodation to any qualified individual under the ADA to perform essential job functions.

We encourage people of all backgrounds to join us on our mission. If you require reasonable accommodation for any aspect of the recruitment process, please send a request to HR-Talent_Acquisition@americancentury.com. All requests for accommodation will be addressed as confidentially as practicable.

American Century Investments believes all individuals are entitled to equal employment opportunity and advancement opportunities without regard to race, religious creed, color, sex, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age for individuals forty years of age and older, military and veteran status, sexual orientation, and any other basis protected by applicable federal, state and local laws. ACI does not discriminate or adopt any policy that discriminates against an individual or any group of individuals on any of these bases.

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