Senior Program Manager - Responsible AI at Vanguard

Vanguard’s Responsible AI Framework is intentionally federated across business, technology, and risk functions. The Senior Responsible AI Program Manager provides single‑threaded accountability for orchestrating execution across the end‑to‑end Responsible AI governance lifecycle—intake, assessment, controls, monitoring, and decommissioning—ensuring consistent sequencing, traceability, and audit‑ready outcomes across teams and systems of record.

This role does not own risk decisions. Instead, it closes execution gaps created by cross‑team handoffs and accelerates adoption by enabling disciplined, continuous oversight at scale.

Responsibilities:

• Orchestrate execution of the end‑to‑end AI governance lifecycle across intake, assessment, approvals, controls, monitoring, material change, and decommissioning.

• Coordinate across CDAO, GR&S, OGC, IT, and business teams to ensure consistent execution of Responsible AI requirements.

• Establish and maintain stage gates, dependencies, and delivery milestones across multiple stakeholders.

• Ensure governance artifacts and metadata are captured in enterprise systems of record to support traceability and audit readiness.

• Drive consistent implementation of required Responsible AI, model, data, security, privacy, and third‑party controls.

• Identify execution gaps, handoff failures, and rework drivers; partner with teams to define durable fixes and enablement improvements.

• Support continuous monitoring and material change routing, ensuring updates are assessed and evidenced appropriately.

• Prepare clear, executive‑ready reporting for governance forums and senior leaders.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.

• 8+ years of program management, governance execution, or cross‑functional delivery experience in regulated or risk‑sensitive environments.

• Proven ability to lead complex, multi‑stakeholder programs without direct authority.

• Experience working across technology, risk, legal/compliance, and business teams.

• Strong executive communication and stakeholder management skills.

Nice to have:

• Experience with Responsible AI, AI governance, model risk, or enterprise technology risk.

• Familiarity with AI lifecycle concepts, monitoring, controls, and audit evidence requirements.

• Experience designing or operating stage‑gate governance models and systems of record.

Special Factors Sponsorship

Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.

About Vanguard

At Vanguard, we don't just have a mission—we're on a mission.

To work for the long-term financial wellbeing of our clients. To lead through product and services that transform our clients' lives. To learn and develop our skills as individuals and as a team. From Malvern to Melbourne, our mission drives us forward and inspires us to be our best.

How We Work

Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for the majority of our crew members, designed to capture the benefits of enhanced flexibility while enabling in-person learning, collaboration, and connection. We believe our mission-driven and highly collaborative culture is a critical enabler to support long-term client outcomes and enrich the employee experience.