Head of AI Compliance & Governance

MaacVerify is an independent AI performance verification company based in Detroit, Michigan. We verify how AI systems actually perform within regulated enterprise deployment contexts using the MAAC framework: a nine-dimension psychometric instrument developed through doctoral research at Wayne State University, currently under journal review. Our clients are regulated enterprises in healthcare, financial services, and legal that need third-party performance evidence to satisfy external auditors, regulators, and legal counsel. We are structurally independent from AI vendors and consultants. Our role is analogous to a financial auditor or ISO-certified quality control lab: we certify performance, we do not advise on deployment decisions. The Role MaacVerify holds its clients to a rigorous AI performance standard. This role exists to make sure MaacVerify is held to the same standard from the inside out. Internally, you will build and maintain MaacVerify\'s own governance framework, ensuring our AI use, policies, and certification practices meet the same regulatory expectations we apply to the enterprises we assess. We are no different than our clients in this regard, and that equivalence is the foundation of our credibility. Externally, you own two mandates. First: ensuring every certification artifact MaacVerify delivers is defensible to the regulatory bodies, auditors, and legal teams our clients answer to. Second: building the professional consensus that makes a MaacVerify certification mean something in the broader compliance community through publications, conference presentations, standards body engagement, and sustained relationships with compliance and governance practitioners. You will work as part of a core governance team alongside the Founder and CEO, General Counsel, and Head of Quality and Certification Operations. What You'll Do Internal Governance Build MaacVerify\'s internal AI governance framework: policies, independence safeguards, conflict-of-interest protocols, and compliance posture as a certification body Collaborate with the Head of Quality and Certification Operations to ensure all certification artifacts meet regulatory defensibility standards Work directly with the CEO and General Counsel as a core governance team on all governance decisions Regulatory Framework Alignment Build and maintain formal alignments mapping MAAC\'s nine assessment dimensions to compliance evidence requirements across healthcare, financial services, and legal Develop evidentiary documentation standards that allow MaacVerify certifications to function as compliance artifacts in regulatory proceedings, audit responses, and legal disclosures Monitor and interpret the EU AI Act, FDA AI/ML guidance, OCC SR 11-7, FINRA Rule 3110, and SEC AI risk disclosure requirements and translate developments into framework updates in real time Develop sector-specific compliance positioning materials for consulting firm partners and future licensees Professional Community Engagement Build MaacVerify\'s credibility within professional compliance and governance communities through publications, white papers, and conference presentations at HCCA, SCCE, ACFE, ISACA, ABA, and IEEE Engage directly with standards organizations and regulatory agencies including NIST, FDA, SEC, OCC, FTC, and the EU AI Office to advance recognition of the MAAC framework as a credible verification standard Represent MaacVerify in regulatory comment letter processes, public consultations on AI governance rulemaking, and industry working groups Build sustained relationships with CROs, CCOs, General Counsel, and compliance practitioners at regulated enterprises, advisory firms, and RegTech organizations What We're Looking For Deep expertise in AI governance, regulatory compliance, or responsible AI in healthcare, financial services, pharma, or legal; working knowledge across at least two sectors required Demonstrated professional credibility: prior publications, conference presentations, regulatory body participation, or standards working group involvement Existing professional network among compliance practitioners, regulatory affairs professionals, or governance advisors; the external mandate requires someone who already has standing in the field Working knowledge of major AI regulatory frameworks and comfort engaging their authors and interpreters directly: EU AI Act, FDA AI/ML guidance, OCC SR 11-7, FINRA, SEC AI risk disclosure requirements Ability to translate regulatory language into compliance positioning materials and documentation standards without requiring outside legal support for routine interpretive decisions Experience collaborating at the leadership level across legal, quality, and governance functions Comfort in the independent assessor\'s identity: rigorous, publicly accountable, and structurally separate from AI vendors and consultants This is a founding equity position. Candidates must be comfortable in an equity-forward, pre-revenue environment with a defined conversion path to salary. #J-18808-Ljbffr MaacVerify