Vice President, AI Platform Governance

Vice President, AI Platform Governance
Location: Chicago, IL (Hybrid, in-office collaboration expected)
Department: Technology
Reports to: Senior Director, Technology

About the Company

Our client is a leading, highly regarded alternative investment firm specializing in private credit. With a global footprint and a reputation for long-term partnerships, the firm continues to invest heavily in technology as a strategic driver of efficiency, risk management, and growth. The firm places a strong emphasis on professional development, collaboration, and a culture built on diverse perspectives.

About the Team

The Technology organization designs and delivers modern solutions that create efficiency, mitigate risk, and support revenue growth across the business. The group spans application development, data integration and analytics, enterprise data governance, infrastructure and operations, project and vendor management, and a mature cybersecurity program. Technology partners closely with firm leadership and business unit heads to align technology investments with business priorities.

The Opportunity

The firm is seeking a Vice President, AI Platform Governance to oversee its enterprise AI platforms and related collaboration technologies, ensuring they enable secure, responsible, scalable, and cost-effective adoption of AI across the organization. As a key member of the firm’s AI operating model, this person will own the governance and operational management of the AI platform environment, establishing the guardrails, controls, and operating practices needed to support continued growth. The role leads a small team of platform engineers and sets priorities across administration, monitoring, reporting, support, and platform change.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead governance, administration, and operational oversight of enterprise AI platforms, including Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Studio, Power Platform, and related collaboration services
• Establish and maintain platform governance frameworks, standards, controls, guardrails, escalation processes, and operating procedures that support secure and responsible AI adoption
• Translate cybersecurity, identity, privacy, data governance, legal, and compliance requirements into effective platform configurations and controls
• Govern AI and agent lifecycles, including intake, registration, risk classification, approval, deployment, monitoring, recertification, and retirement, ensuring ownership, support, access, cost, and audit controls are in place before production release
• Oversee platform environments, approved models, APIs, connectors, integrations, and permissions, including access, consumption, and lifecycle controls
• Establish Azure API Management and related licensing and metering controls to govern API access, token and credit consumption, capacity, budgets, and forecasts
• Evaluate new capabilities, business requests, and platform changes, balancing innovation, risk, security, cost, and operational considerations
• Build service-management practices, support SLAs, monitoring, escalation paths, and controlled change processes
• Maintain auditability through logging, monitoring, evidence retention, and control-performance oversight
• Deliver recurring reporting on platform health, usage, adoption, controls, and costs, and communicate key insights to stakeholders
• Lead platform-governance engineers and governance-related vendors, setting priorities, service expectations, and accountability

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in enterprise platform management, technology governance, cloud operations, or related disciplines, preferably within regulated environments
• Demonstrated ownership of complex enterprise platform or control environments
• Deep expertise with Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Studio, and Power Platform administration and governance; familiarity with Agent 365 preferred
• Strong understanding of AI platform governance, including control frameworks, cybersecurity, privacy, data governance, agent and model lifecycle governance, environment strategy, publishing controls, and audit readiness
• Strong knowledge of enterprise integrations, APIs, connectors, Azure API Management, identity and access controls, and agent connectivity patterns, including throttling and consumption controls
• Experience administering enterprise collaboration platforms such as Microsoft Teams and SharePoint
• Experience with platform reporting, software licensing, consumption forecasting, capacity planning, and cost optimization
• Familiarity with enterprise service-management processes (incident, request, problem, and change)
• Experience leading technical teams, managing priorities, and driving service delivery excellence
• Strong vendor-management, analytical, communication, and stakeholder-management skills
• Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, Technology Management, Risk Management, or a related field; advanced degree or relevant certifications preferred

Why This Role

• Own the governance foundation that enables AI adoption across a leading investment firm
• Build and lead a team while shaping standards, controls, and operating practices from the ground up
• High visibility with technology leadership, control functions, and business teams
• Collaborative, in-office culture with strong investment in professional growth