What are the responsibilities and job description for the AI Governance lead - Senior Solution Architect and SME position at Straive?
Straive is a global leader in enterprise-grade data analytics and AI solutions, committed to empowering businesses across various industries with cutting-edge technology and expert insights. Backed by EQT, a top private equity firm, we are uniquely positioned to drive innovation through significant investments and an entrepreneurial spirit.
Our core focus is on delivering advanced Data Analytics & AI Solutions. By combining sophisticated technology with subject matter expertise, we deliver material impact on our clients' topline and streamline their operations. We specialize in providing tailored solutions across financial services, CPG, legal, pharma, life sciences, retail, energy and logistics, helping them build robust data analytics and AI capabilities.
With a client base spanning 30 countries, Straive's strategically located global teams offer localized expertise with a worldwide perspective.
Join Straive to be part of a dynamic team at the forefront of data analytics and AI innovation. Here, you'll have the opportunity to contribute to transformative projects, supported by significant investments and an entrepreneurial drive fueled by our partnership with EQT.
Job Title: AI Governance lead - Senior Solution Architect and SME
Job Location: Newark, NJ (Hybrid)
Job Type: Full-time
The Role
We are building a new solution category within AI Governance to accelerate the adoption of enterprise AI, and this role owns it - from first principles to first clients.
You will take a strategic insight, structure it into a solution, prototype it, and commercialize it with clients. It sits at the intersection of AI model behavior, operational risk, and enterprise-grade workflows.
You think in frameworks. You have commercial instincts. You're a builder who can sell. You understand that being early to a problem is an advantage and you know how to use it.
What You'll Do
- Translate a business problem or hypothesis into a structured, client-ready solution.
- Own the intellectual core: methodology, scoring logic, domain-specific test libraries.
- Run discovery with quants, risk officers, AI engineers, and COOs.
- Introduce the offering into active client conversations alongside the sales team and convert audit engagements into follow-on remediation work.
- Be the external voice: conferences, practitioner forums, written point of view.
- Build the operating model, delivery methodology, and team as the capability scales.
What You Bring
Required
- Prior experience in building Agentic AI systems and AI governance frameworks.
- Operational fluency in how AI models behave in production (failure modes, degradation patterns, oversight gaps).
- Ability to translate a diagnostic finding into a remediation roadmap a builder can act on.
- Track record of taking ambiguous problems from whiteboard to client-ready artifact.
Preferred
- 10 years of relevant experience in BFSI in a delivery or advisory capacity (or both).
- Direct experience with agentic AI systems: how they are architected and where they break.
- Prior exposure to model risk management or AI governance in a regulated environment.
This job description is not intended to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of all responsibilities, duties, or activities that are required. Responsibilities, duties, and/or activities may change, or new ones may be added at any time with or without notice.
If you are a motivated professional with a passion for delivering impactful solutions, we’d love to hear from you. Apply today to be part of a dynamic and forward-thinking team at Straive.
“Straive is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our policy is clear: there shall be no discrimination based on age, disability, sex, race, religion or belief, gender reassignment, marriage/civil partnership, pregnancy/maternity, or sexual orientation.
We are an inclusive organization and actively promote equality of opportunity for all with the right mix of talent, skills and potential. We welcome all applications from a wide range of candidates. Selection for roles will be based on individual merit alone.”