Senior AI Assurance Consultant

Senior AI Assurance Consultant

London, Manchester or Glasgow / Hybrid
-70k - -100k per annum + bonus & benefits

Permanent

Are you ready to help shape how organisations safely and responsibly adopt AI at enterprise scale?

This is an exciting opportunity to join a leading AI Strategy team at the forefront of Generative AI, agentic AI, copilots and AI-enabled transformation. You''ll combine strategic thinking, commercial awareness and deep AI risk expertise to help organisations move from AI ambition to responsible, scalable execution.

You''ll work on complex, high-impact challenges spanning AI assurance, governance, risk management and lifecycle management, helping organisations build trust in AI while unlocking its potential.

What you''ll be doing

• Define and deliver AI assurance: Design, implement and continuously improve AI assurance frameworks covering fairness, safety, transparency, explainability, privacy, security, robustness, accountability and regulatory compliance.
• Identify and assess AI risk: Lead AI risk, impact and control assessments, evaluating business, operational, ethical, legal, regulatory and societal risks, particularly in high-risk or regulated environments.
• Embed risk throughout the AI lifecycle: Integrate first-line AI risk management and assurance from use-case selection and design through development, testing, deployment, monitoring, change management and retirement.
• Build trusted AI solutions: Partner with product, engineering, data science, security, privacy, legal and compliance teams to ensure AI solutions align with risk appetite, governance requirements and regulatory expectations.
• Ensure ongoing AI performance: Establish requirements for monitoring, performance validation, drift detection, incident management and post-deployment assurance so AI systems remain effective, safe and compliant.
• Shape AI strategy and growth: Contribute to enterprise-wide AI transformation, solve complex strategic challenges and help grow the wider AI Strategy practice.

What you''ll bring

• Demonstrable experience in AI risk management and assurance, including model performance, transparency, explainability, accountability, privacy, security and regulatory compliance.
• Strong experience embedding AI governance, risk management and assurance across the end-to-end AI lifecycle.
• Proven ability to conduct AI risk assessments, impact assessments, control evaluations and assurance reviews, ideally within regulated or high-risk environments.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to translate complex technical and regulatory concepts into clear, practical, risk-based recommendations for technical, operational and executive audiences.
• Strong understanding of AI monitoring and observability, including performance validation, drift detection, incident management and post-deployment assurance.
• A genuine passion for responsible, safe and scalable AI adoption, combined with commercial acumen, curiosity, adaptability and the ability to remain effective in complex or high-pressure environments.
• Desirable: Experience across sectors such as Central Government, Defence, Manufacturing, Automotive, Life Sciences, Consumer Products & Retail or Financial Services; experience influencing cross-functional teams and operating in complex or highly regulated risk environments.

If you''ve held any of these roles or used these technologies/skills, this role could be a great fit: AI Strategy Consultant, AI Strategy Lead, AI Risk Consultant, AI Risk Manager, AI Assurance Lead, AI Governance Consultant, Responsible AI Consultant, AI Governance Lead, AI Assurance, AI Risk Management, AI Governance, Generative AI, Agentic AI, AI Copilots, AI Lifecycle Management, AI Monitoring, AI Observability, Model Risk, Responsible AI, Risk & Control Assessments.

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