AI & Data Policy and Standards Lead

Job Description

Job Description

Company Summary

EchoStar is reimagining the future of connectivity. Our business reach spans satellite television service, live-streaming and on-demand programming, smart home installation services, mobile plans and products.

Today, our brands include Boost Mobile, DISH TV, Gen Mobile, Hughes and Sling TV.

Our Technology teams challenge the status quo and reimagine capabilities across industries. Whether through research and development, technology innovation or solution engineering, our team members play a vital role in connecting consumers with the products and platforms of tomorrow.

Job Duties and Responsibilities

Candidates must be willing to participate in at least one in-person interview.

 

In this critical role on the AI and Data Governance team, you will lead the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of internal AI and data governance policies, standards, and procedures that support the ethical and effective deployment of Artificial Intelligence across all EchoStar lines of business.

 

What Success Looks Like (Objectives):

• Actionable Policy Drafting & Lifecycle Management: Supports governance design and execution through decision-to-data mapping, documentation, and analysis. Owns drafting, reviewing, and updating governance policies, standards, and procedures. Moves beyond high-level statements (e.g., ensure fairness and quality) to write specific, actionable guidelines (e.g., utilize X methodology to test for Y quality or parity).
• Lifecycle Management: Maintains the Dictionary of Policies, Classifications and Standards, ensuring all documentation is version-controlled, up-to-date, and easily accessible to the business.
• Regulatory Translation & Operationalization: Collaborates with EchoStar’s Legal, Risk, and other stakeholders teams, and the Senior Manager, to interpret emerging frameworks (e.g., NIST AI RMF, Colorado Automated Decision-Making Technology Act, EU AI Act). Determines how these regulations convert into clear checklists and standards, removing ambiguity for the EchoStar business units, stakeholders and related deliverers/builders.
• Feasibility Testing & Stakeholder Alignment: Prevents policy bloat by actively road-testing new standards with EchoStar business units, stakeholders and related deliverers/builders such as engineering, data science, and product teams before they are finalized.  If a policy is theoretical but effectively impossible to implement, refining until it is actionable.
• Standardization for Measurement: Creates the templates, decision trees, and "How-To" guides that support the policies.  Ensures that standards are scored and measurable by governance reporting.
• Forward Deployment: Acts as the supporting operational link between Governance Leadership and Forward Deployed Expertise (FDE) teams, ensuring clear expectations, handoffs, maintaining momentum.

Skills, Experience and Requirements

Core Skills and Competencies (What you’ll bring):

• Experience working with AI tools for automation and productivity.
• Proven ability to create policies, standards and procedures that are logical, version-controlled, and easy for non-legal teams to navigate.
• Ability to identify the specific metadata, logging requirements, or testing protocols required to align governance with regulatory requirements.
• Ability to influence without authority; a proven track record of acting as the "middle person" between business, risk, and technical execution teams, refining policies until they are both compliant and frictionless.
• Deep familiarity with standardized governance frameworks such as the NIST AI Risk Management Framework.

 

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Policy, Data Science, Computer Science, or Engineering
• 4 years of experience in AI/Data Governance, Technical Policy, Process Engineering, or Compliance
• NIST AI Risk Management Framework
• Decision-to-data mapping and policy drafting

 

Visa sponsorship not available for this role

 

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Benefits

We offer versatile health perks, including flexible spending accounts, HSA, a 401(k) Plan with company match, ESPP, career opportunities, and a flexible time away plan; all benefits can be viewed here: EchoStar Benefits.

 

The base pay range shown is a guideline. Individual total compensation will vary based on factors such as qualifications, skill level, and competencies; compensation is based on the role's location and is subject to change based on work location. 

 

Candidates need to successfully complete a pre-employment screen, which may include a drug test and DMV check. Our company is committed to fostering an inclusive and equitable workplace where every individual has the opportunity to succeed. We are dedicated to providing individuals with criminal or arrest records a fair chance of employment in accordance with local, state, and federal laws.

 

The posting will be active for a minimum of 3 days. The active posting will continue to extend by 3 days until the position is filled.

 

We pride ourselves on developing and promoting talent as an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. EchoStar will accommodate the sincerely held religious beliefs of employees if such accommodations are not undue hardships and are otherwise within the bounds of applicable law. All qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with local, state, and federal law. You may redact any information that identifies age, date of birth, or dates of school/graduation from your application documents before submission and throughout our application process.

EchoStar will provide reasonable accommodation to otherwise qualified job applicants and employees with known physical or mental disabilities, unless doing so poses an undue hardship on the Company, poses a direct threat of substantial harm to others, or is otherwise not required by law. EchoStar has a more detailed Accommodation Policy that applies to employees. EchoStar endeavors to make echostar.com and jobs.echostar.com accessible to users. Please contact View email address on ziprecruiter.com if you would like to discuss the accessibility of our website or need assistance completing the application process. This contact information is for accommodation requests only; do not use this contact information to inquire about the status of applications.

Click the links to access the following statements: EEO Policy Statement, Pay Transparency, EEOC Know Your Rights (English/Spanish)