AI Compliance and Governance Specialist

At Sabio Group were building the next generation of AI-powered customer experience for some of the worlds most demanding enterprise brands. We deliver significant volumes of agentic AI LLM and conversational solutions into regulated industries which means governance and compliance arent a back-office function for us theyre a competitive advantage and a customer expectation. Were hiring an AI Compliance & Governance Specialist to join our Internal AI Team and add capacity to our existing governance and compliance function. Were already ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II certified we operate under the EU AI Act and were working towards ISO 42001. Youll 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. Its 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 Sabios 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 Sabios 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 Sabios 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 youve 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 whats 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.

Required Experience:

IC

Employment Type : Full-Time
Experience: years
Vacancy: 1