Job Description
Join the People Helping People Velera is the nation’s premier payments credit union service organization (CUSO) and an integrated fintech solutions provider. The company serves more than 4,000 financial institutions throughout North America, operating with velocity to help our clients keep pace with the rapid momentum of change and fuel growth in the new era of financial services. Our purpose: We accelerate partners’ success through innovative financial technology solutions and inspired service. The Opportunity The AI Governance Program Manager owns the day‑to‑day operation of the enterprise AI governance program, ensuring AI initiatives are governed consistently, transparently, and in alignment with enterprise guardrails, risk management expectations, and policy requirements. This role translates responsible AI principles, risk guidance, and governance standards into executable processes, documentation requirements, and checkpoints that scale with AI adoption. The role works closely with Enterprise Data & AI leadership, Legal, Risk, Compliance, Privacy, and business stakeholders to ensure governance expectations are clearly understood, proportionate to risk, and applied consistently across AI initiatives. The AI Governance Program Manager enables responsible AI adoption by providing structure, visibility, and coordination without personally serving as a policy‑setting, risk‑acceptance, or technical review authority. A Day in the Life Coordinates structured governance intake processes and ensures documentation standards are applied consistently. Own and coordinate structured AI governance intake workflows once AI use cases are formally proposed Ensure required governance documentation is complete, accurate, and aligned to enterprise standards Apply consistent documentation templates, evidence requirements, and artifact expectations Ensure governance checkpoints are completed prior to key delivery milestones Clarify governance requirements, timelines, and responsibil
