AI Governance & Leadership
Heads of AI, responsible-AI and AI-risk leaders — the roles a regulated market now requires and almost nobody can find.
A$180k – A$400k package
Australia’s regulatory calendar has made this a category: APRA’s April 2026 letter demanded a step-change in AI risk management from every regulated entity, and Australian AI standards legislation is flagged for 2027. Boards now ask who owns AI risk — and the market for people who can genuinely answer is extraordinarily thin.
These searches are as much definition as discovery: what the role owns, where it sits, and what evidence of capability looks like when the discipline itself is five years old. We run them retained, with a market map as the first deliverable, so you see the true shape of the talent pool before committing to a profile.
We hold ourselves to the standard we recruit for: our own AI-assisted process is disclosed, consented, human-decided and audit-logged — published in full in our AI transparency statement.
- Head of AI / Director of AI
- AI Governance & AI Risk leads
- Responsible AI specialists
- AI Policy & Assurance (regulated industries)
Where this hiring goes wrong
Governance ≠ compliance paperwork
The strong candidates connect model behaviour to enterprise risk — they can read an eval report and a board paper with equal fluency. Pure policy backgrounds without technical literacy consistently underperform in these seats.