AI Governance Specialist

Job Description:

AI Governance Specialist

Dow Jones is a global provider of news and business information, delivering content to consumers and organizations around the world across multiple formats, including print, digital, mobile and live events. Dow Jones has produced unrivaled quality content for more than 130 years and today has one of the world's largest news-gathering operations globally. It is home to leading publications and products including the flagship Wall Street Journal, America's largest newspaper by paid circulation;
Barron's, Market Watch, Mansion Global, Financial News, Investor's Business Daily, Factiva, Dow Jones Risk & Compliance, Dow Jones Newswires, OPIS and Chemical Market Analytics. Dow Jones is a division of News Corp (Nasdaq: NWS, NWSA; ASX: NWS, NWSLV).

Our Technology team drives the evolution of our Technology, Engineering, AI, Data, Product and User Experience functions. With a keen focus on delivering cutting‑edge solutions, we shape the digital landscape for our customers, readers, and users with a focus on safeguarding the future of journalism. The AI Governance team sits at the heart of this mission, ensuring that as we harness the power of Generative AI, we do so with the responsibility, ethics, and accuracy that our readers, corporate clients, and partners expect from us.

The AI Governance team is a specialized group where each member leads a different stream of work, ensuring that Dow Jones scales AI with the precision and integrity our global reputation demands.

We are looking for a new team member to report directly to the VP, Data & AI Governance who will take ownership of one of these critical work streams based on their unique strengths. We are looking for candidates who excel in at least one of the following profiles and has an interest in the others:

• The Strategist :
  You are obsessed with "edge cases" and can spot a potential misinformation risk or data leak in a technical architecture before it happens. You will also lead the charge in defining governance processes for the next frontier and be the architect of guardrails for commercial data partnerships.
• The Product/Project Liaison :
  You have experience in technical project management or product operations. You are familiar with the work engineers do as much as you are with the language end‑users need. You will move AI from "idea" to "workflow" by leading PoCs and document a process so it can be scaled.
• The Change Leader :
  You are an exceptional communicator, storyteller, or trainer. You can take a complex concept like "Agentic AI" and make it exciting and actionable for a non‑technical audience. You will drive the "AI IQ" of the enterprise.

• Develop and maintain governance policies and frameworks, including creating policy frameworks for GenAI tool usage that incorporate guardrails, privacy protections, security requirements, and responsible AI principles. You will ensure these frameworks scale as new AI capabilities emerge, including agentic AI use cases.
• Assess and mitigate AI‑related risks by conducting thorough vendor evaluations, performing risk scoring, and recommending mitigation actions based on Dow Jones' AI Risk Matrix. You will collaborate with Legal, Privacy, Cyber Security, and product teams to ensure all GenAI applications meet regulatory and ethical standards.
• Support the DJ AI Steering Committee by preparing materials, presenting use case requests, providing risk assessments, and ensuring alignment between AI initiatives and business objectives. You will be the bridge between technical teams and executive decision‑makers.
• Drive AI literacy and adoption across Dow Jones through initiatives like the GenAI Odyssey, AI Council/Community meetings, and targeted workshops. You will develop training materials, facilitate knowledge‑sharing sessions, and act as a trusted advisor to teams implementing GenAI in their workflows.
• Build and maintain visibility into GenAI adoption, creating dashboards and reporting mechanisms to track usage metrics, quantify productivity gains, and identify adoption blockers. You will use both qualitative and quantitative insights to…