Director, AI Compliance

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About the team + role

We are building an elite team, applying frontier technologies to the world’s biggest financial problems. We’re looking for bold thinkers. Sharp problem-solvers. Builders who are wired to make an impact. Robinhood isn’t a place for complacency, it’s where ambitious people do the best work of their careers. We’re a high-performing, fast-moving team with ethics at the center of everything we do. Expectations are high, and so are the rewards. 

The Robinhood Markets (“RHM”) Compliance team is Robinhood’s parent company group. As the AI Compliance Lead within RHM Compliance, you’ll play a critical role in supporting Robinhood’s development and implementation of Artificial Intelligence.

Working with Legal, Engineering, Privacy, and Security and oversight groups across Robinhood, you’ll ensure that the development and use of AI technologies are transparent, ethical, and compliant with relevant regulations. You’ll do significant work on high-priority, cross-functional projects and lead the compliance efforts to further mature, scale, and operationalize the AI Compliance framework, while also supporting Legal and Compliance in adopting AI for their own work. Given the pace of AI adoption, we need someone who can move quickly, make sound decisions, and enable the business while managing risk!

This role is based in our Menlo Park, CA, Washington, DC and New York, NY office(s), with in-person attendance expected at least 3 days per week.

At Robinhood, we believe in the power of in-person work to accelerate progress, spark innovation, and strengthen community. Our office experience is intentional, energizing, and designed to fully support high-performing teams. 

What you’ll do

• Own and continue to build a cross-Robinhood AI compliance program by developing policies & procedures, oversight & testing, governance, and frameworks, including tools that operationalize AI governance

• Work with cross functional partners to maintain and enhance a formal risk assessment and mitigation program for AI use cases and capabilities, including generative AI and agentic AI

• Maintain an enterprise inventory of AI use cases, models, and third-party AI tools, with a risk-tiering and intake process that scales the level of review, testing and monitoring to risk

• Evaluate and categorize new AI tools and use cases (intended use, data and controls), and develop new models and templates that speed up onboarding and approval

• Partner with compliance business units (“BU”), enterprise risk management and BU risk to implement Model Validation for AI programs

• Work with Legal, Privacy, Risk, Engineering, Security and BU compliance to ensure processes are in place for AI regulatory compliance

• Monitor emerging global AI regulatory frameworks, laws, regulations, policies and trends

• Remain up-to-date on standards, technical approaches, and related issues by participating in workshops, reading professional publications, maintaining personal networks, and participating in professional organizations

• Provide regulatory and compliance advice on AI-related efforts, including supporting internal audits and regulatory exams and inquiries

• Act as the RHM enterprise compliance subject matter expert on AI, facilitating the integration of the AI compliance program and raising awareness around the importance and safe adoption of AI across RH

• Support Legal and Compliance teams in identifying, evaluating, and responsibly adopting AI for their own use cases (e.g., regulatory change management, monitoring and surveillance, policy and contract review, and compliance testing), including defining appropriate guardrails, testing and human review

• Participate in committee meetings and present to senior leadership and the boards of Robinhood entities on AI usage, risk analysis, and compliance efforts, and produce clear policies and reports that support a reasonable, we