AI Risk & Governance Lead

Join Mizuho as an AI Risk & Governance Lead!

Mizuho is building one enterprise-wide approach to AI across every business, function, and jurisdiction in which it operates. A central function pairs with a federated regional structure, so one framework applies wherever AI is built, bought, embedded, or shared, with regional overlays, not divergent local procedures.

Built to meet U.S. supervisory expectations, the framework is now extending into the UK, EU, Canada, Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Mexico and Brazil. These jurisdictions raise obligations the U.S. framework doesn't, and must reconcile with it, not sit alongside it.

In this role you will report to the Head of the AI Center of Acceleration as senior accountable owner for Mizuho's global AI governance operating model, and as principal subject matter expert on AI's cross-jurisdictional regulatory landscape. This is a First Line of Defense role: you operate as a domain owner, not a coordinator. You own the framework and the determinations behind it;

independent risk and internal audit challenge them, and you are expected to withstand that challenge on the record.

You own that operating model as a single enterprise standard and design the regional overlays meeting local obligations without fragmenting it.

A key part of this role is understanding how AI is actually being adopted across the businesses, including what arrives embedded in vendor products or outside intake. You drive the vision and roadmap for global AI governance, engaging directly with business, Legal, Compliance, Risk, Privacy, and Technology stakeholders across regions.

• Own design and build of the global AI governance operating model, Policy, Standard, and Procedure, as one enterprise standard, including in the U.S.
• Build regulatory applicability and classification analysis across jurisdictions, including EU AI Act provider/deployer determination, for Legal and Compliance sign-off.
• Maintain a documented applicability position per jurisdiction across AI legislation, data protection, resilience, and outsourcing.
• Reconcile conflicting requirements across entities and jurisdictions, and set standing positions so routine calls are made in-house, not routed to outside counsel.

• Define and execute the multi-year roadmap so governance scales with the pace of AI adoption.
• Translate the framework into a regional operating model: role charters, decision rights, escalation triggers, and intake so use cases enter correctly classified.
• Act as change agent across the international footprint, driving consistent AI governance practice.

• Define AI-specific requirements for cross-border transfer, data residency, and model hosting, partnering with Data Privacy and Information Security on implementation.
• Work closely with the Data Management Office to align AI governance with enterprise data standards, data ownership, quality, lineage, and approved data usage requirements.
• Define jurisdictional AI vendor governance requirements, contract protections, notice of material capability change, end-user terms, for Legal and Procurement to execute.

• Serve as the global AI governance authority to the firm's senior leadership and regional governance committees, holding a standing seat at the forums where AI use cases are approved, escalated, or stopped.
• Deliver consolidated global AI governance reporting on control status and key risk indicators to management and entity boards.
• Act as principal AI governance subject matter expert for supervisory examinations and audit.

• Lead the Regional AI…