AI Governance Senior Manager

Capgemini Invent

At Capgemini Invent, we believe difference drives change. As inventive transformation consultants, we blend our strategic, creative and scientific capabilities, collaborating closely with clients to deliver cutting-edge solutions. Join us to drive responsible transformation tailored to our client's challenges of today and tomorrow. Informed and validated by science and data. Superpowered by creativity and design. All underpinned by technology created with purpose.

To help us, we’re looking for a Senior Manager to join our AI Governance & Trust team. In this leadership role, you’ll shape how organisations design, govern, and scale AI responsibly, bringing deep expertise in responsible AI frameworks and the ability to connect them to broader strategic and organisational priorities. You will play a pivotal role in guiding clients to build the structures they need to deploy AI safely and ethically, while also helping set the strategic direction of the AI Governance & Trust team and establishing it as a trusted partner for organisations navigating an increasingly complex AI governance landscape.

Your Role

This role sits at the intersection of strategy, innovation, and delivery, defining how organisations design, govern, and scale AI in a safe, transparent, and trustworthy way.

As a Senior Manager in the AI Governance and Trust team, you will:

• Shape and steer client AI governance strategies, translating regulatory and ethical requirements and industry best practice into actionable frameworks, policies and controls that enable responsible AI adoption at scale.
• Lead the design and implementation of governance processes across the AI lifecycle, from initial concept through development, deployment, monitoring, and ongoing assurance ensuring policies and practices are adopted through effective culture, communication and training.
• Provide AI assurance expertise, helping clients assess their AI systems (including GenAI and Agentic) and ensure they meet regulatory expectations, industry standards, and ethical guidelines.
• Engage and influence senior stakeholders, ensuring governance approaches are strategically aligned and embedded across the organisation.
• Provide thought leadership and horizon scanning, advising clients on emerging governance trends, standards, and regulatory changes.

Alongside client delivery, you will play a crucial role in shaping the practice and driving business growth through:

• Evolving our AI Governance & Trust proposition, contributing to the direction and development of our offers, assets, tools, methodologies, and thought leadership that address client needs and differentiate Capgemini Invent in the market.
• Business development, leading major proposals, shaping propositions and campaigns, contributing to pitches, engaging clients, and building long-term relationships that support account growth.
• Internal leadership, shaping the team’s strategic direction and developing its capability, through sharing knowledge and helping colleagues stay ahead of new governance approaches, regulatory changes, and industry trends.

Your Profile

As part of the AI Governance & Trust team, you’ll help set the direction for the future of responsible AI consulting. We’re looking for individuals who are curious, strategic, and deeply committed to ensuring AI and emerging technologies are used safely and responsibly. You’ll combine strong delivery credentials with the ability to influence and guide organisations towards trustworthy, well-governed AI solutions.

We know that great leaders come from diverse backgrounds. Below are the skills and experience we are looking for.

Key Skills:

• Deep understanding of AI governance, assurance, ethics, and regulation – You can interpret emerging regulation, ethical expectations and industry best practice and translate them into actionable governance requirements, controls, and assurance approaches that deliver tangible value.
• Strong grounding in data and AI technologies – You understand how AI systems are developed, deployed, and monitored, enabling you to guide teams and shape governance across the full lifecycle.
• Strategic, structured thinker – You can navigate complex governance challenges across people, process, technology, and data, and shape clear, actionable, scalable recommendations.
• Excellent communicator and senior level collaborator – You engage confidently with senior stakeholders, translating complex governance and technical concepts into compelling, accessible narratives.
• Growth mindset and intellectual curiosity – You have a strong understanding of AI trends, evolving regulation and emerging governance practices, and the potential impacts of these on clients.

Experience:

• Leadership in AI governance & assurance delivery – Strong management consulting experience with a proven track record of leading or overseeing projects to create or enhance AI governance policies, processes, frameworks, or operating models.
• Driving change and capability uplift – Experience helping clients embed responsible AI practices through training, capability building, and practical tools that align cross functional teams around new ways of working.
• Strong business development and account leadership – Demonstrated success in identifying opportunities, shaping proposals, winning work, and managing client relationships throughout the full sales lifecycle.
• Growing a practice and developing teams – Experience shaping a business area’s direction, building high performing teams, and developing talent while expanding offerings, methodologies, and market presence.

What You'll Love About Working Here

Our AI Governance & Trust team helps organisations shape how AI is used responsibly, building trust, strengthening oversight, and creating long-term value through well governed and purposeful AI adoption. You’ll work at the forefront of a rapidly evolving field, influencing how industry and society embrace this technology. You’ll work at the forefront of a rapidly evolving field, influencing how industry and society embrace

We work across a wide range of industries, delivering outcomes that matter to society. You’ll have the freedom to experiment, innovate, and shape your own career path, supported by mentorship from leading experts in data and AI.

We are delighted to have received the “Glassdoor Best Places to work UK’ accolade for 5 consecutive years, to see what it’s like to work at Capgemini Invent, visit our Glassdoor page

Need To Know

At Capgemini we don’t just believe in inclusion, we actively go out to making it a working reality. Driven by our core values and Inclusive Futures for All campaign, we build environments where you can bring your whole self to work.

We aim to build an environment where employees can enjoy a positive work-life balance. We embed hybrid working in all that we do and make flexible working arrangements the day-to-day reality for our people. All UK employees are eligible to request flexible working arrangements.

Employee wellbeing is vitally important to us as an organisation. We see a healthy and happy workforce a critical component for us to achieve our organisational ambitions. To help support wellbeing we have trained ‘Mental Health Champions’ across each of our business areas. We have also invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy.

CSR:

We’re also focused on using tech to have a positive social impact. So, we’re working to reduce our own carbon footprint and improve everyone’s access to a digital world. It’s something we’re really serious about. In fact, we were even named as one of the world’s most ethical companies by the Ethisphere Institute for the 10th year. When you join Capgemini, you’ll join a team that does the right thing.

Whilst you will have London, Manchester or Glasgow as an office base location, you must be fully flexible in terms of assignment location, as these roles may involve periods of time away from home at short notice.

We offer a remuneration package which includes flexible benefits options for you to choose to suit your own personal circumstances and a variable element dependent grade and on company and personal performance.

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