Frontier Trust & Governance Lead

The Frontier Transformation Framework helps our customers become Frontier Firms: organizations where autonomous agents execute work continuously under human oversight. In that model, governance is the backbone, not the brake: it is the structure that lets teams move fast precisely because the rails are sound. Governance designed at deployment drifts out of date within months, and because a Frontier Firm coordinates autonomous agents rather than people, the trust-and-governance backbone must be heavier, not lighter. The Frontier Transformation team is how the Microsoft Frontier Company, the organization this role sits within, delivers this: a small, senior human-agent team in which each member carries one of the Framework's eight capabilities into the customer, directs a set of digital co-workers to deliver at a scale headcount alone could not. We are seeking a Frontier Trust & Governance subject matter expert to establish the frameworks, policies, and control systems that let AI operate safely, ethically, and at enterprise scale. In this role, you will design and operationalize the agent governance framework across intake, runtime, and change; own the guardrails, the control plane, and the baseline-before-build readiness checks; and balance innovation velocity with responsible AI, regulatory compliance, and the customer's risk tolerance. You will help customers establish the governance, security, identity, data protection, and assurance capabilities required to operate AI and autonomous systems safely at enterprise scale. This is a role for people who can hold both the policy and the technical control plane in their heads, who can translate emerging AI regulation into working guardrails, and who are energized by making autonomy safe rather than slow. You will work directly with the customer's risk, compliance, legal, security, and business leaders alongside Business Architects, Engineers, and Value leads, and you will transfer skills the customer's risk and compliance officers/owners so that governance is owned after your engagement ends. If you are excited by making frontier AI trustworthy and secure at scale, this role is for you.

Core Responsibilities Strategy & Transformation: Assess governance and security maturity, identify capability gaps, and develop governance transformation roadmaps. Advise customers on governance maturity progression from foundational AI governance through autonomous and ecosystem-scale governance.   Governance Operating Model Design the AI Governance Operating Model including governance forums, stakeholder structures, decision rights, accountability models, and executive oversight mechanisms. Define and implement ownership, stewardship, data access, human-in-the-loop, escalation, and accountability models for AI and agent solutions operating across business and technology functions.   Governance, Risk & Security Establish Responsible AI, risk, security, privacy, and compliance frameworks, including policies, standards, control requirements, and governance guardrails that enable safe AI adoption at scale. Design and operationalize AI and agent governance across the solution lifecycle, including intake, assessment, approval, deployment, runtime monitoring, change management, retirement, and ongoing oversight.   Assurance & Platforms Establish governance observability and assurance capabilities, including governance metrics, executive reporting, auditability, compliance evidence, risk monitoring, and continuous assurance mechanisms. Leverage Microsoft security, compliance, identity, governance, and AI management platforms (Agent 365, Purview, Entra and Defender) to operationalize governance capabilities and control structures for AI and autonomous systems.   Leadership & Adoption Partner with customer executives, risk, compliance, legal, security, and business stakeholders to stand up governance councils, manage emerging regulatory requirements, and address evolving