SmartSuite for the AI Governance Lead
The AI Governance Lead monitors enterprise AI posture, identifies systemic issues and ensures AI use aligns with laws, regulations and internal standards. They run the governance programme: inventory coverage, exceptions, framework mapping and maturity, linking models to obligations, controls and evidence.
What you own
- Operate the AI governance programme and its policies
- Maintain inventory coverage and risk tiering of AI use cases
- Map models to obligations, controls and standards
- Track exceptions, systemic issues and governance maturity
- Coordinate reviews with model owners, validators, privacy and security
- Report AI governance posture to the Chief Data and AI Officer
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How they use the AI Governance suite
Program monitoring
Tracks coverage, exceptions, and governance maturity.
Compliance alignment
Maps models to obligations, controls, and standards.
Systemic insight
Identifies repeat issues and enterprise risk themes.
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How SmartSuite supports this role
AI governance. Provides a connected governance ecosystem linking models, risks, controls, obligations and evidence, with framework mapping and issue management.
Compliance management. Maps models to obligations, controls and standards and tracks evidence per requirement.
Issues and actions. Tracks exceptions and repeat issues to identify enterprise risk themes.
Reporting. Reports coverage, exceptions and governance maturity.
Industry reference
The NIST AI RMF's Govern function and ISO/IEC 42001:2023 define the programme: policies, an inventory of AI systems, roles, impact assessments and monitoring, with the Generative AI Profile (2024) covering foundation-model use. The EU AI Act (2024/1689) makes inventory, risk classification and documentation legal duties for providers and deployers of high-risk systems.
Sector rules add detail. US federal agencies must inventory AI use cases under OMB guidance; insurers follow the NAIC's 2023 model bulletin and Colorado's AI law; healthcare organisations meet HHS transparency rules for decision support and FDA device guidance; financial firms fold AI into SR 11-7 model governance.
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