AI Compliance and Governance Specialist

AI Compliance and Governance Specialist

Department: IT

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: London

Reporting To: Stephen Smith

Description

At Sabio Group, we are building the next generation of AI powered customer experience for some of the world's most demanding enterprise brands. We deliver significant volumes of agentic AI, LLM and conversational solutions into regulated industries - which means governance and compliance aren't a back office function for us, they're a competitive advantage and a customer expectation.

We are hiring an AI Compliance & Governance Specialist to join our Internal AI Team and add capacity to our existing governance and compliance function. We already ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II certified, we operate under the EU AI Act, and we are working towards ISO 42001. You will play a key part in evolving that posture - across the solutions we ship to customers, the policies and procedures we run internally, and the way we evidence trust to regulators and clients.

This is a hands on role for someone who is genuinely curious about AI, comfortable using AI tooling to amplify their own output, and thoughtful about how to govern it responsibly. It's a fun, fast paced environment with a high growth business area behind it - and a strong remit to shape how AI is built and deployed across the Sabio group.

Key Responsibilities Customer Solution Assurance

• Review and assure the AI solutions we deliver to customers against EU AI Act obligations, ISO 42001 controls, customer specific regulatory requirements and Sabio's internal standards.
• Partner with delivery teams during discovery, design and deployment to ensure bias, hallucination, prompt injection, misuse and other AI specific risks are identified and mitigated by design - not patched in later.
• Support pre sales and customer conversations on compliance posture, certifications and responsible AI commitments.

Policy, Procedure & Strategy

• Draft, maintain and evolve internal AI policies, procedures, standards and control frameworks.
• Contribute to the strategic direction of Sabio's AI governance programme - including roadmap to ISO 42001 certification and ongoing alignment with EU AI Act, ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II.
• Translate regulatory change (EU AI Act guidance, national implementations, sector specific rules) into practical, actionable internal guidance.

Audit & Assurance

• Audit Sabio's AI deployment and support methodologies against internal standards and external frameworks.
• Support external audits from customers, certification bodies and regulators - preparing evidence, running walkthroughs and remediating findings.
• Build and report on AI governance KPIs that give leadership and customers a clear, honest view of compliance posture.

Responsible AI in Practice

• Operationalise responsible AI principles - fairness, transparency, accountability, robustness, human oversight - across solution lifecycles.
• Work with engineering and AI teams on practical mitigations for bias, hallucination, jailbreak resistance, data leakage and acceptable use boundaries.
• Help define and evolve our approach to evaluation, red teaming and ongoing monitoring of deployed AI systems.

Enablement & Communication

• Run working sessions, training and clinics that lift AI governance literacy across engineering, delivery, sales and operations.
• Bring people together across geographies and disciplines to land decisions and unblock initiatives.
• Produce high quality written content - policies, briefings, customer facing assurance materials, internal comms.

Working with AI

• Use AI tooling (Microsoft Copilot, Microsoft Cowork and others) as a core part of how you deliver - drafting, analysing, summarising, reviewing - to materially amplify your output.

Skills Knowledge and Expertise Required

• Demonstrable experience in AI compliance, AI governance or AI risk - either as a dedicated focus or as a major component of a broader compliance, legal, infosec, cyber or engineering role that you've since pivoted toward AI.
• Strong working knowledge of the EU AI Act and a clear understanding of how risk classification, obligations and timelines apply to real world AI systems.
• Familiarity with ISO/IEC 42001, ISO/IEC 27001 and SOC 2 Type II - what they require, how they interlock, and how to evidence compliance in practice.
• A genuine grasp of the core principles of modern AI: LLMs, prompt engineering, context engineering, retrieval augmented generation, and agentic frameworks - enough to challenge engineers credibly and apply governance to what's actually being built, not a generic abstraction of it.
• Hands on experience using AI tooling as part of your day job - using AI co work / copilots to draft, review, analyse and accelerate your own output.
• Awareness of bias, hallucination, prompt injection, data leakage and misuse risks in deployed AI systems, with practical experience helping to mitigate them.
• Excellent written and verbal communication - able to draft a board grade policy, run a workshop, brief a customer auditor and write a sharp internal memo.
• Ability to run meetings, bring groups together and drive outcomes across geographically dispersed teams and different business functions.
• Comfort with high pace, multi stakeholder environments - motivated, flexible, and able to build effective working relationships across cultures and time zones.
• A passion for raising the bar in others - coaching, enabling and growing AI governance literacy across the organisation.

Desirable

• Working proficiency in Spanish alongside English.
• Familiarity with Microsoft Copilot, Microsoft Cowork and the broader Microsoft AI ecosystem.
• Hands on familiarity with AI offerings from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and conversational AI platforms such as Cognigy, and a practical sense of how their governance characteristics differ.
• Prior career stage in legal, information security, cyber security, audit or software engineering - now focused on AI governance and compliance.
• Experience supporting customer facing audits or regulator engagement in a B2B / enterprise context.
• Exposure to AI evaluation, red teaming or model assurance practices.
• Experience working in or with contact centre, customer experience or other regulated enterprise domains.

Nice to Have

• Experience contributing to an ISO 42001 certification journey end to end.
• Familiarity with NIST AI RMF, UK AI regulatory developments, or sector specific AI guidance (financial services, healthcare, public sector).
• Exposure to emerging agent interoperability and safety standards (e.g. MCP, A2A) and human in the loop patterns.
• A track record of writing publicly - blogs, talks, whitepapers - on AI governance, responsible AI or adjacent topics.

Benefits

This is your chance to join and friendly and passionate team that will motivate you to learn and develop your career in the company.

• Benefits may include:
• Pension Scheme
• Remote/Flexible work
• Life insurance
• Private health and dental care
• Cycle to work
• 28 days paid holiday a year (this includes three Sabio days)
• LinkedIn Learning
• Plus many more! (Benefits are dependant on your base location.)

The Small Print

Strictly No Agencies; any submission of resumes without prior request from Sabio Group will not be deemed as an introduction and therefore will not warrant an introduction fee. All applicants must have the right to work in the territory to which the role relates (UK & EU). Sabio Group are unable to offer sponsorship on any roles advertised.