Vice President, Artificial Intelligence Vendor Governance & Oversight Remote (anywhere in United States)

The Company is seeking a Vice President of Artificial Intelligence Vendor Governance and Oversight to set the strategy and lead the enterprise framework for responsible AI adoption and third-party oversight. The role establishes governance bodies, decision rights, policies, controls, and monitoring across the AI lifecycle, while overseeing risk-based reviews, approvals, and the enterprise AI inventory. The executive will guide responses to risks and incidents, lead governance committees, and partner with legal, compliance, privacy, security, technology, clinical, operations, and business teams. Responsibilities also include overseeing vendor due diligence and performance, ensuring regulatory readiness, reporting on portfolio risk, and building organizational AI governance capabilities. Candidates should have at least 12 years of relevant experience and seven years of management or leadership experience, including demonstrated success leading governance frameworks for AI, emerging technology, data, or models in regulated environments. Strong knowledge of healthcare compliance, enterprise and model risk, privacy, cybersecurity, and third-party risk is required, along with experience designing policies, controls, approval processes, monitoring, and executive reporting. Applicants should understand AI and machine-learning lifecycles and responsible AI principles, and be able to translate evolving requirements into practical controls. Executive communication, cross-functional influence, team development, and experience assessing third-party AI solutions are essential. A relevant master’s degree, healthcare-sector experience, and related professional certifications are preferred.

Hiring Company

Molina Healthcare