Global Head of Data & AI Governance & Oversight, SVP

Head of Data & AI Governance and Risk The Head of Data & AI Governance and Risk is accountable for ensuring that all enterprise Data, AI, and Agentic AI capabilities are well‑governed, high‑quality, trusted, and regulator‑ready, while enabling innovation to scale safely across all lines of business. Define and maintain the enterprise policies, standards, and governance operating model for Data and AI, serving as the single global point of accountability for regulatory, audit, and supervisory engagement. Operate proactively, anticipating regulatory direction and strengthening the firm’s posture ahead of examinations, actively engaging 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, define the strategic target state for Data and AI governance, ensuring clarity and consistency across ownership, stewardship, authoritative sourcing, data quality, and approval expectations. Maintain independence from platform build, model development, and use‑case delivery; success measured by regulatory confidence, enterprise trust, data quality, and speed enabled through strong governance and streamlined processes. Key Responsibilities Enterprise Data, AI & Agentic AI Governance Define, maintain, and evolve enterprise‑wide policies, standards, and control frameworks for Data governance and data management, AI, GenAI, and Agentic AI, Responsible AI and AI risk classification, third‑party and vendor AI usage. Ensure governance applies across the full lifecycle of data and AI assets, from design through retirement. Strategic Governance Target State (LOB Partnership) Partner with each line of business to define and maintain the target state for Data and AI governance aligned to enterprise standards and regulatory expectations. Translate enterprise governance principles into domain‑specific, actionable models. Provide governance leadership into Data & AI roadmaps without owning delivery or architecture decisions. Authoritative Data Sources, Ownership & Stewardship Establish and operate the enterprise framework for authoritative data sources by data domain and key data element. Partner with data owners and data stewards to designate approved and trusted data sources, resolve conflicts between competing sources, ensure lineage, data quality and fitness for purpose, and ensure consistent use of authoritative data sources across analytics, reporting, and AI use cases. Enterprise Data Competency Institutionalize the enterprise data governance operating model, including data ownership and accountability, data steward roles and responsibilities, management of key data elements and critical data assets, and embedding data accountability into business processes across all lines of business. AI Inventory, Classification & Streamlined Approvals Own the enterprise inventory of AI initiatives across AI, GenAI, ML, and Agentic AI. Ensure inventories, classifications, and definitions align with NIST AI Risk Management Framework and applicable regulatory expectations. Design and operate streamlined, tiered approval processes for all AI types, ensuring consistent intake and classification, clear routing to required partners (Model Risk Management, Legal, Privacy, Security), predictable and efficient approval timelines, and continuous improvement to reduce friction and late‑stage escalation. Model Risk Management Partnership Partner closely with the Model Risk Management (MRM) function, ensuring AI and ML use cases are appropriately classified and routed to MRM where required, aligning governance standards and approval workflows with MRM requirements. Data Quality & Data Incident Management Define enterprise standards for data quality measurement, monitoring, and control. Own enterprise processes for data issues and incidents, including root cause analysis, remediation tracking, and escalation. Partner with business and platform teams to embed preventive and detective quality controls. Regulatory Leadership & Proactive Engagement Act as the single enterprise point of contact for regulators, audit, and external inquiries related to Data and AI. Proactively assess emerging regulatory expectations, drive early alignment across the firm, coordinate and participate in all active regulatory efforts relating to data, technology, and AI. Lead regulatory examinations, findings and remediation programs (e.g., BCBS 239, MRAs) and ensure regulatory learnings are converted into durable governance and process improvements. Enterprise Partnership & Operating Model Stewardship Partner with Data Architecture, Data & AI Platforms, Enablement teams, and Business leaders to operationalize compliant pathways and align governance intent with target architectures. Maintain independence from delivery while shaping enterprise design decisions and continuously evolving governance practices. Salary Range $225,000 - $337,500 Annual Benefits Employees are eligible to participate in State Street’s comprehensive benefits program, which includes our retirement savings plan (401K) with company match; insurance coverage including basic life, medical, dental, vision, long‑term disability, and other optional additional coverages; paid‑time off including vacation, sick leave, short‑term disability, and family care responsibilities; access to our Employee Assistance Program; incentive compensation including eligibility for annual performance‑based awards (excluding certain sales roles subject to sales incentive plans); and eligibility for certain tax‑advantaged savings plans. About State Street Across the globe, institutional investors rely on us to help them manage risk, respond to challenges, and drive performance and profitability. We keep our clients at the heart of everything we do, and smart, engaged employees are essential to our continued success. 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