AI Governance Analyst

Role: AI Governance Analyst

Location: Bangalore India

Full/ Part-time: Full time

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Carrier is a leading provider of heating ventilating air conditioning and refrigeration systems building controls and automation and fire and security systems leading to safer smarter balanced and high-performance buildings.

Carriers Digital Products and Software team is building solutions to reimagine systems that shape the way we live work and play. Were setting the standard for healthier safer and more resilient built environments and connecting the cold chain to improve the process of safely shipping and storing food and critical medical supplies.

About the Role:

The AI Governance Specialist is a senior individual contributor responsible for designing and operationalizing core components of Carriers enterprise AI governance program. This role leads risk evaluation of AI tools and use cases develops governance frameworks and standard work and serves as a subject matter expert to the AI Review Board (AIRB) and cross-functional stakeholders across legal cybersecurity product security and business units. The Specialist operates with significant autonomy owning workstreams end-to-end shaping program maturity and advising leadership on governance posture and remediation strategy. This role is well-suited for a practitioner with deep expertise in AI risk technology governance or regulatory compliance who is ready to build capability in a first-mover governance function.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead end-to-end risk evaluations of AI tools and use cases applying risk tiers and producing defensible recommendation memos for AIRB consideration
• Design and maintain governance frameworks including the AI Risk and Control Matrix RACI structures and AIRB operating procedures (SLAs voting protocols escalation paths)
• Develop standard work for the AI tools approval process including intake requirements review criteria and conditional approval conditions
• Own the post-audit remediation roadmap prioritizing epics and child stories resolving gaps in documentation and managing progress against milestones for executive reporting
• Serve as a governance advisor to business unit leaders and AI system owners on compliance obligations across the AI lifecycle (planning through retirement)
• Build and maintain independent monitoring mechanisms to validate submitter-reported ROI and compliance with approval conditions
• Translate regulatory developments (EU AI Act NIST AI RMF regional requirements) into actionable policy updates and governance controls
• Prepare executive-level communications including program status decks risk summaries and quarterly milestone reporting for SVP-level audiences
• Mentor junior analysts and support delegation of operational tracking and coordination workstreams

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Information Systems Law Risk Management Data Science or a related field; advanced degree preferred
• 58 years of experience in AI governance technology risk enterprise compliance or internal audit with at least 2 years focused on AI or data governance specifically
• Demonstrated ability to design governance frameworks and operationalize policy requirements across complex matrixed organizations
• Strong working knowledge of AI/ML concepts including model risk bias explainability and the AI development lifecycle
• Experience conducting or leading risk assessments for technology or AI systems with the ability to produce audit-ready documentation
• Track record of preparing and presenting materials for senior leadership audiences
• Strong stakeholder management skills; able to build credibility with legal cybersecurity and business partners without direct authority

Preferred Qualifications

• Direct experience implementing or auditing against CPM-style or equivalent enterprise AI governance policies
• Familiarity with Model Risk Management (MRM) frameworks as applied in regulated industries (financial services healthcare or industrial)
• Working knowledge of applicable AI regulations including the EU AI Act NIST AI Risk Management Framework and ISO/IEC 42001
• Experience managing post-audit remediation efforts including Jira-based epic and story tracking
• Certifications in AI governance risk management or information security (e.g. CDAI CRISC CISA CISSP)
• Experience in a global enterprise environment with exposure to multi-jurisdictional regulatory requirements
• Prior involvement in standing up a governance function or program from early-stage maturity

Benefits

We are committed to offering competitive benefits programs for all of our employees and enhancing our programs when necessary.

• Enjoy your best years with our retirement savings plan
• Have peace of mind and body with our health insurance
• Make yourself a priority with flexible schedules parental leave and our holiday purchase scheme
• Drive forward your career through professional development opportunities
• Achieve your personal goals with our Employee Assistance Programme.

Our commitment to you

Our greatest assets are the expertise creativity and passion of our employees. We strive to provide a great place to work that attracts develops and retains the best talent promotes employee engagement fosters teamwork and ultimately drives innovation for the benefit of our customers. We strive to create an environment where you feel that you belong with diversity and inclusion as the engine to growth and innovation. We develop and deploy best-in-class programs and practices providing enriching career opportunities listening to employee feedback and always challenging ourselves to do better. This is The Carrier Way.

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Carrier is An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability or veteran status age or any other federally protected class.

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