Governed Innovation Leader

Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) is a global consulting firm with entrepreneurial, action and results-oriented professionals. We take a hands‑on approach to solving our clients' problems and assisting them in reaching their potential. Our culture celebrates independent thinkers and doers who positively impact our clients and shape our industry. The collaborative environment and engaging work—guided by A&M's core values of Integrity, Quality, Objectivity, Fun, Personal Reward, and Inclusive Diversity—are why our people love working at A&M.

You will be joining a newly formed Global AI & Knowledge Innovation Office (GAIKO) led by a Chief AI & Knowledge Officer who is moving fast. The team is global, still being staffed, and operating with urgency. This role sits alongside pillars covering Responsible AI & Governance, AI Partnerships, and AI Portfolio Intelligence & Value, as well as a separate product and technology organization.

Thousands of A&M practitioners want to build with AI — automations, analyses, internal apps, agents. Today there is no defined answer to the most basic questions: who is allowed to build what, with which tools, under what review, and with what visibility once it's running. A citizen-development pilot is underway; what the firm needs next is the operating model that turns that pilot into a standing, governed capability.

The Governed Innovation Leader designs and runs that capability. This role owns the rules of the road and the on-ramps: the operating model, the use‑case permission framework, the templates and training that let practitioners build safely, and the observability and visibility that ensure nothing is built in the dark. The role works hand in hand with the business, product, IT, risk, legal and security organizations to stand the model up.

Those teams own the environments, infrastructure, and security reviews; this role designs the program that runs on top of them and operates the gate that determines when a business‑unit build moves toward a production path.

This role works directly with the Business Units to understand how they want to build and innovate and translates those requirements into a governed model that enables, setting the global minimum standard while accommodating genuinely different contexts.

• Design the governed-innovation operating model end to end: roles, review thresholds, build rules across low-code/no-code/full-code, promotion gate criteria, and intake and support flows
• Work with the Business, product, IT, risk, legal and security organizations to stand up the model's foundations so the model is jointly built rather than imposed after the fact
• Own the long‑term governed‑innovation vision and plan, incorporating input from business units and IT
• Run and evolve the model over time: operate the promotion gate, own the rules, and keep them current as tools and the firm's risk posture change

• Engage directly and continuously with BU leaders and practitioners to understand their innovation needs, current workarounds, and what's blocking them today
• Translate BU requirements into the design of the governed innovation environment and its supporting services

• Define the key citizen‑development use case archetypes and, for each, the specific permissions, data access boundaries, tool tiers, and review requirements that apply
• Build the decision logic so a builder can answer  hat am I allowed to build, with what tools, and what review do I need in minutes, not weeks
• Maintain the use‑case and permission framework as new tools, patterns (agents, MCP‑style integrations), and risk decisions land