Senior Manager– AI Governance & Controls Engineering

Senior Manager– AI Governance & Controls Engineering

• Full-time
• Salary Min: 124500
• Salary Max: 236500
• Workday Global Grade: 19
• Travel:
  Yes, 10% of the Time
• Compensation: USD 124,500 - USD 236,500 - yearly

About Abb Vie

Abb Vie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas including immunology, oncology and neuroscience - and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about Abb Vie, please visit us at  .

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The Senior Manager, AI Governance & Controls Engineering is responsible for elevating Abb Vie’s AI governance operations by ensuring full compliance with AI-specific regulatory requirements (EU AI Act, U.S. state AI law, NIST AI RMF) and Abb Vie internal AI policy, while providing advanced strategic leadership across AI risk-control design, monitoring, and validation strategy. This role leads the development and implementation of AI governance control systems and processes, leveraging digital enablement, data-driven methodologies, and automation — including AI itself — to scale governance without proportional headcount growth.

Collaborating directly with cross-functional teams (Privacy, Security, Quality, Risk Management, Legal), the Senior Manager provides audit and inspection support, drives Corrective Action and Preventive Action (CAPA) execution for AI governance findings, and oversees adoption of vendor/platform documentation (including the One Trust risk-management platform), strengthening operations through proactive risk mitigation.

Additionally, the Senior Manager leads and develops a high-performing AI Controls Engineering team — including direct oversight of the Principal Quality Engineer, AI Controls Engineering role —, manages critical partnerships and contracts, and champions continuous process improvement, technology adoption, and innovation. This role acts as the primary liaison for AI governance initiatives, policy frameworks, and audit readiness driving high-impact results and aligning business and regulatory objectives across Abb Vie’s AI landscape.

Responsibilities

• Provide advanced strategic leadership in the analysis, oversight, and execution of AI governance and controls-engineering activities, ensuring compliance with AI-specific regulatory requirements (EU AI Act, U.S. state AI law, NIST AI RMF) and corporate procedures across all AI use cases, platforms, and projects.
• Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing AI Controls Engineering team, including direct supervision of the Principal Quality Engineer, AI Controls Engineering role; set clear expectations, provide coaching, and support professional growth.
• Lead the design and implementation of advanced AI governance control and automation solutions, applying expert solution-building skills to streamline ACTOR and One Trust activities, reduce manual effort, and accelerate delivery of compliant AI governance reviews across the enterprise.
• Architect and oversee AI governance control strategy, policy framework development, and harmonization of AI risk-management processes enterprise-wide — including platform-level versus use-case-level control placement —, ensuring alignment with business and regulatory objectives.
• Drive enterprise-level audit and inspection support for AI governance, including leading audit defense, crafting responses to inspection findings, and managing the deployment and closure of CAPA solutions for AI governance findings across functional areas.
• Oversee and optimize the use of vendor/platform…