Director, AI Risk Management - New York, United States
MetLife · United States · 3mo ago
Join our Global Risk Management Group, where you’ll play a key role in safeguarding the company, ensuring we deliver on our commitments to customers and stakeholders, and driving responsible growth. As part of our team, you’ll identify, monitor, and mitigate both financial and non-financial risks across the organization. Leverage your expertise as the second line of defense to advise our business on effective risk management strategies. This means challenging ideas, implementing robust controls, and enforcing guardrails to foster responsible business growth. Join us in advancing MetLife’s legacy of trust through exemplary risk management practices.
This position will join the AI Risk Management team within Global Risk Management. This team provides second line oversight and review and challenge activities for AI initiatives across the Enterprise, including the Responsible Use of AI approval process. The team partners closely across risk, business, technology, and control functions to enable moving with speed and discipline.
This role supports the Responsible Use of AI (RUAI) governance and approval process. The role will engage with use case owners and control partners to enable timely assembly and review of use cases in alignment with the RUAI policy and standard. In particular, the role requires ensuring adequate materials including questionnaire responses and control artifacts are collected; agenda-setting, and facilitating meetings between control partners, use case owners, vendors, and others; and raising issues and heightened risks to AI Risk Management leadership for decisioning when necessary. Success in this role requires not only strong project and stakeholder management skills and sound judgment, but enough fluency in AI, business processes, and risk concepts to engage substantively and challenge where needed.
- Manage day-to-day RUAI approval execution—intake, coordination, risk assessment, and documentation
- Partner with use case owners to improve submission quality, ensuring completeness and alignment with governance standards
- Coordinate cross-functional engagement with control partners, including scheduling, agendas, and follow-ups
- Conduct and review risk assessments, identifying issues and escalating as needed while ensuring clarity and consistency
- Enhance governance processes by improving tools/workflows and identifying recurring risk patterns to support reporting and insights
- Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative or technical field (e.g., statistics, economics, computer science, data science, actuarial science, information systems)
- Experience in financial services or other regulated industries
- Knowledge of AI regulatory frameworks and control areas (e.g., privacy, AI ethics, model risk, data governance, information security)
- Proven ability to coordinate complex, cross-functional initiatives and engage both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Strong communication, synthesis, and issue-management skills, with familiarity in AI/ML concepts and risk/control frameworks
- 3+ years in AI risk or technology governance within cross-functional control environments, including emerging risk program development
- Strong knowledge of insurance operations/products, with relevant advanced degree or credential (e.g., quantitative field, law, risk, actuarial, security, or privacy)
- Experience with AI/ML platforms (e.g., Azure, Databricks, Domino, Langchain) and governance in regulated settings
The expected salary range for this position is$128,800 - $171,700. This role may also be eligible for annual short-term incentive compensation and stock-based long-term incentives. All incentives and benefits are subject to the applicable plan terms.
Benefits We OfferOur U.S. benefits address holistic well-being with programs for physical and mental health, financial wellness, and support for families. We offer a comprehensive health plan that includes medical/prescription drug and vision, dental insurance, and no-cost short- and long-term disability. We also provide company-paid life insurance and legal services, a retirement pension funded entirely by MetLife and 401(k) with employer matching, group discounts on voluntary insurance products including auto and home, pet, critical illness, hospital indemnity, and accident insurance, as well as Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and digital mental health programs, parental leave, paid time off, paid holidays, volunteer time off, tuition assistance and much more! For more information regarding MetLife’s U.S. benefits, please click here.
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