AI governance

The policies, controls, and accountability an organization puts around how AI is built, bought, and used — and the evidence that they are followed.

Hiring data as of November 4, 2026 · refreshed daily

companies naming it: 7 of 47companies naming it
open roles naming it: 26open roles naming it
of those based in NYC: 3of those based in NYC
pay: under 8 posted ranges: —pay: under 8 posted ranges

What AI governance means

AI governance is the operating layer between principles and practice: an inventory of where AI is used, risk tiers for those uses, review before deployment, monitoring after, and named owners. External frameworks — the NIST AI Risk Management Framework, ISO 42001, the EU AI Act, and in financial services long-standing model risk management rules — give it structure.

The gap the field keeps running into is between publishing a principles document and changing what happens in a data pipeline or a product review. Closing that gap is mostly organizational work, carried out by people who can read both a regulation and a model card.

AI governance in New York job posts

7 of the 47 New York AI companies we track name AI governance in at least one open role today, across 26 postings. 3 of those are based in New York; the rest are remote or in the companies’ other offices.

It is not confined to one function. Engineering roles are the largest group, at only 27% of the postings that name it.

How to read it

In startup postings this term is rare, and it is spread across public-sector partnerships, engineering, operations, and legal roles rather than owned by one function. That understates the market: in our research the New York employers hiring hardest for governance are banks, insurers, and law firms, which sit outside our startup-weighted coverage. Read the number here as a floor on startup demand, not as the size of the field.

What these roles pay

Not enough data to publish. We need at least eight distinct posted salary ranges on New York roles naming AI governance before showing a median, and today there are fewer. For posted pay by function and seniority across the whole market, use the NYC salary calculator or the NYC AI engineer salary guide.

Companies naming AI governance, daily

Count of companies with at least one open role naming the term. We read between 46 and 47 companies a day over this period, so a move of one or two is noise.

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Date	companies
2026-09-20	6
2026-09-21	6
2026-09-22	6
2026-09-23	6
2026-09-24	6
2026-09-25	6
2026-09-26	6
2026-09-27	6
2026-09-28	6
2026-09-29	6
2026-09-30	6
2026-10-01	6
2026-10-02	6
2026-10-03	6
2026-10-04	6
2026-10-05	6
2026-10-06	6
2026-10-07	7
2026-10-08	7
2026-10-09	8
2026-10-10	8
2026-10-11	8
2026-10-12	8
2026-10-13	8
2026-10-14	8
2026-10-15	8
2026-10-16	8
2026-10-17	8
2026-10-18	8
2026-10-19	8
2026-10-20	8
2026-10-21	8
2026-10-22	8
2026-10-23	8
2026-10-24	8
2026-10-25	8
2026-10-26	8
2026-10-27	8
2026-10-28	7
2026-10-29	7
2026-10-30	7
2026-10-31	7
2026-11-01	7
2026-11-02	7
2026-11-03	7
2026-11-04	7

Who names it

Open roles naming AI governance, by company.

AlphaSense8
ElevenLabs8
Headway3
Rogo3
Clay2
Alloy1
April1

Which roles

The same postings, by function and by seniority.

Engineering7
GTM7
Finance & Legal5
Operations4
Product2
Other1

Mid13
Senior11
Manager1
Staff/Principal1

Named alongside AI governance

Terms that appear in the same postings far more often than chance would put them there. The number is how many of the 7 companies pair the two.

GCP 2
Kubernetes 2

Open roles naming AI governance

A sample from today’s data, New York roles first and one per company before any repeats. Links go to the employer’s own posting. For the full market, see AI jobs in NYC.

GRC Analyst ↗Rogo · New York City
Privacy Counsel ↗ElevenLabs · New York
Senior Machine Learning Engineer ↗Alloy · New York City
AI Security Engineer ↗AlphaSense · Remote - India
Compliance Analyst ↗April · United States
EMEA Counsel ↗Clay · London
Principal, Clinical Product ↗Headway · Remote
GRC Analyst, APAC ↗Rogo · Singapore

On the AI in NYC Show

Episode 17: Governing AI for Real
Alayna Kennedy, Mastercard

How this is counted

Every day we read the open roles on the public job boards of the New York AI companies in our coverage — the NYC AI 100 and the AI in NYC Show roster. This term is matched against each role’s description after removing the text a company repeats across its postings, so an “About us” paragraph cannot tag every role the company has open. A vendor’s own postings never count toward its own name.

The figure means named in a job posting. It does not mean used in production, and a “nice to have” counts the same as a requirement. Companies are the headline number because posting counts are dominated by whichever few employers are hiring hardest this month.

Full method, including the pay rules, is on the glossary index; the underlying series is the NYC AI Hiring Index.

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AI governance — common questions

What does AI governance mean in an AI job posting?

The policies, controls, and accountability an organization puts around how AI is built, bought, and used — and the evidence that they are followed. In startup postings this term is rare, and it is spread across public-sector partnerships, engineering, operations, and legal roles rather than owned by one function. That understates the market: in our research the New York employers hiring hardest for governance are banks, insurers, and law firms, which sit outside our startup-weighted coverage. Read the number here as a floor on startup demand, not as the size of the field.

How many New York AI companies are hiring for AI governance?

As of November 4, 2026, 7 of the 47 New York AI companies we track name AI governance in the description of at least one open role, across 26 postings (3 based in New York). The count refreshes daily from the companies’ own job boards.

What do roles that ask for AI governance pay in New York?

We do not publish a pay figure for AI governance yet. Fewer than eight New York postings naming it carry a distinct posted salary range, and below that number a median says more about two or three employers than about the market.

Which skills are asked for alongside AI governance?

In the same postings, the terms most distinctively paired with AI governance are GCP, Kubernetes. We rank pairings by how much more often they appear together than apart, so near-universal terms such as Python do not crowd out the informative ones.

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