Senior Director, AI Risk and Compliance

🕒 August 6

🏄 California, Colorado, +3 more states – Remote

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💵 $167.5k - $278k / year

⏰ Full Time

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🤖 Artificial Intelligence

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Thermo Fisher Scientific

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1956

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

🏭 Manufacturing

Healthcare • Logistics • Manufacturing

Thermo Fisher Scientific is the world leader in serving science, with annual revenue of more than $40 billion. Their mission is to enable customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer by supporting life sciences research, solving complex analytical challenges, increasing laboratory productivity, and improving patient health through diagnostics and the development of life-changing therapies. With a global team, they offer innovative technologies and pharmaceutical services through brands such as Thermo Scientific, Applied Biosystems, Invitrogen, Fisher Scientific, Unity Lab Services, Patheon, and PPD.

📋 Description

• Define and operationalize a CRG-wide AI risk and governance framework aligned with Thermo Fisher enterprise policies and regulatory expectations • Translate regulatory and enterprise risk requirements into scalable governance patterns, templates, and automated controls • Embed compliance into model lifecycle tooling, monitoring systems, audit, and traceability infrastructure • Ensure AI solutions incorporate transparency, explainability, data privacy and security compliance, bias detection and mitigation, auditability, and traceability • Partner with Legal, Compliance, Privacy, InfoSec, and Quality teams on global regulatory and internal-policy alignment • Define and operationalize risk tiers for AI use cases, including fast-path, lightweight-review, and formal-governance pathways • Operate as an independent control function within the Applied AI operating model • Integrate risk controls into readiness frameworks, workflow design, lifecycle stage gates, systems, and tooling • Serve as the primary interface with Legal, Privacy, InfoSec, and Quality organizations • Establish a scalable AI governance and risk framework and reduce AI-related compliance, quality, and reputational risk exposure • Support development of a differentiated external AI and workflow transformation offering

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required in business, computer science, digital strategy, or a related field • MBA or advanced degree preferred • 15 years of experience in digital, innovation, strategy, content/knowledge management, or customer-facing leadership roles within clinical research, healthcare, life sciences, or technology-enabled services • Ability to translate complex digital, data, and AI concepts for technical and non-technical audiences • Experience developing customer-facing content for bids, proposals, value demonstrations, and executive presentations • Strong executive presence in high-stakes customer and leadership interactions • Ability to influence outcomes in highly matrixed environments without relying on formal authority • Strategic judgment and systems thinking • Exceptional executive communication, narrative clarity, and storytelling skills • Strong content architecture, knowledge management, editorial, and governance skills, including taxonomy, versioning, reuse, and quality control • Stakeholder management across Digital, Commercial, Operations, Marketing, and Executive leadership • Ability to operate in ambiguity and high-stakes situations with emotional intelligence and discretion • Ability to manage and scale work through partners and vendors • Ability to communicate, receive, and understand information and ideas with diverse groups • Ability to use and learn standard office equipment and technology proficiently • Ability to work under pressure while prioritizing and handling multiple projects or activities • May require as-needed travel of 0–20% • Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship • Must be able to pass a comprehensive background check, including drug screening

🏖️ Benefits

• Variable annual bonus based on company, team, and/or individual performance results • National medical and dental plans • National vision plan, including health incentive programs • Employee assistance and family support programs • Commuter benefits • Tuition reimbursement • At least 120 hours paid time off (PTO) • 10 paid holidays annually • Paid parental leave: 3 weeks for bonding and 8 weeks for caregiver leave • Accident and life insurance • Short- and long-term disability • Competitive 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan • Employees’ Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), with eligible colleagues able to purchase company stock at a discount • Reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities