Program Manager

Role: Program ManagerLocation: Jersey City, New Jersey(Onsite)Required Skills:7+ years of relevant experience across program management and governance, risk, compliance, or technology controls in a regulated environment.Bachelor’s degree in business, technology, risk management, or a related discipline is preferred, or equivalent practical experience demonstrating senior-level governance program leadership.Proven program management experience in governance, risk, compliance, or technology controls within a regulated environment, preferably financial services.Demonstrated ability to build and operationalize governance processes and operating procedures, including driving adoption and execution, not only documenting frameworks.Strong facilitation skills for senior forums, with the ability to drive decisions, manage conflict, and resolve cross-functional ambiguity while maintaining appropriate challenge and independence.Working knowledge of AI and ML lifecycle concepts and typical enterprise risk concerns, including data privacy, model risk, security, third-party risk, bias and fairness considerations, and monitoring expectations.Experience managing intake pipelines, workflow tooling, and producing executive-ready governance reporting with clear status, decisions, risks, and asks. Core Competencies:Governance operating model design and continuous process improvement.Stakeholder orchestration across business, technology, and control functions.Risk-informed decision facilitation and structured escalation management.Documentation and evidence management to support traceability and audit readiness.Portfolio and backlog tracking with disciplined action management.KPI definition, governance reporting, and executive communications.Executive presence and strong facilitation skills with senior stakeholders.Highly structured thinking and ability to translate ambiguity into clear process, decisions, and actions.Diplomacy and the ability to challenge constructively while maintaining productive cross-functional relationships.High attention to detail, particularly in decision capture, conditions, evidence, and auditability.High ownership and accountability, with the ability to operate with urgency and independence in a contractor capacity. Preferred Skills:Experience with AI governance frameworks and model risk management concepts.Experience establishing or running AI use case review boards, steering committees, or similar governance bodies.Familiarity with platform selection and architecture review processes for analytics and AI solutions.Experience authoring policies and procedures and supporting enterprise controls testing or assurance activities. Responsibilities:Design and or refine the AI governance framework, operating model, and RACI for AI use case intake, evaluation, approval, and ongoing oversight.Build and operationalize intake processes, templates, and review criteria, including defining minimum required submission artifacts and quality bars for review readiness.Facilitate the AI use case approval lifecycle end-to-end, from initial submission through final approval, including managing rework cycles, decision conditions, and remediation requirements.Establish and enforce governance checks and balances through defined checkpoints, including initial triage, risk review, legal and privacy review, information security review, architecture and platform review, and final approval.Run governance cadences, including scheduling, agenda creation, pre-read preparation, meeting facilitation, decision capture, action tracking, and follow-ups to closure.Coordinate with Risk, Compliance, Legal, Privacy, InfoSec, Technology and Architecture, Data, and Business stakeholders to ensure each governance dimension is evaluated thoroughly and consistently.Maintain a centralized governance backlog and portfolio view, including status tracking, approvals, conditions, exceptions, waivers, and remediation actions with clear owners and due dates.Maintain a decision log with traceability of rationale, reviewers, approvals, conditions, and required evidence to support audit and regulatory inquiries.Define, monitor, and report governance metrics to demonstrate throughput and effectiveness, such as intake volume, cycle time, approval rates, bottlenecks, and recurring issues.Ensure documentation standards and evidence collection practices are consistently applied, supporting readiness for internal audit, risk challenges, and regulatory examinations.Support change management and communications for new or updated governance processes, including stakeholder enablement, rollout planning, and ongoing process reinforcement.RegardsPraveen Kumar Talent Acquisition Group – Strategic Recruitment Manager| Themesoft Inc