AI Governance Analyst

AI Governance Analyst

Anywhere

Type: Contract

Category: Business Analysis

Industry: Retail

Workplace Type: Remote

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Date Posted: 02/15/2026

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Our client is a leading and successful off-price retailer of apparel and home fashions, operating multiple divisions across the United States, Canada, and Europe. It focuses on large-format, value-oriented retailing concepts that deliver merchandise at significant discounts compared to regular department and specialty store prices.

We can facilitate w2 and corp-to-corp consultants. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.

Rate: $50.00 to $55.00/hr. w2

• Process AI use cases through intake, review, assessment, socialization, and closure.
• Maintain inventories of AI systems, models, datasets, and third-party AI tools with risk tiers and approval statuses.
• Highlight risks associated with use cases, inform business owners, and support risk mitigation.
• Lead AI risk assessments covering purpose, model risk, bias, transparency, accuracy, and human oversight.
• Run the AI intake process including triage, scoping, and routing with Legal, Privacy, Cybersecurity, IT, and Business stakeholders.
• Develop governance templates and artifacts such as risk profiles, decision logs, RACI, playbooks, and assessment checklists.
• Produce dashboards and executive reports for leadership, audit, and regulatory inquiries.
• Facilitate periodic reviews and recertification of AI systems and coordinate post-deployment monitoring and incident response workflows.
• Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to align governance requirements with delivery milestones.
• Provide training and guidance on responsible AI practices, policy updates, and process changes.

• Ability to work during Eastern Standard Time hours.
• Working knowledge of AI and ML concepts including data pipelines, model lifecycle, performance monitoring, bias, and explainability.
• Experience operationalizing governance processes such as intake, control testing, evidence collection, and reporting.
• Strong analytical, documentation, and stakeholder communication skills.
• Familiarity with AI model governance artifacts including model cards, datasheets, and risk registers (preferred).
• Knowledge of responsible AI practices such as human oversight, safety, and transparency, and exposure to MLOps (preferred).
• Exposure to enterprise platforms that support governance workflows such as Service Now, SharePoint, Power Automate/Power Apps, and Confluence/Jira, and to data catalog/lineage and assessment tools (preferred).

• Bachelor’s degree in Data/Computer Science, Information Systems, Risk/Compliance, or related field, or equivalent experience.

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Skills, experience, and other compensable factors will be considered when determining pay rate. The pay range provided in this posting reflects a W2 hourly rate; other employment options may be available that may result in pay…