AI Compliance Lead
- Sofia, Prague, Warsaw, Bucharest
- Quality Assurance
- ICON Full Service & Corporate Support
- Hybrid
TA Business Partner
- Icon Strategic Solutions
- Full Service Division
About the role
Compliance AI Lead
ICON plc is a world-leading healthcare intelligence and clinical research organization. We’re proud to foster an inclusive environment driving innovation and excellence, and we welcome you to join us on our mission to shape the future of clinical development.
AI Compliance Manager
As a Responsible AI & Compliance Manager at ICON, you will be responsible for ensuring that all AI products, agents, and services are developed and deployed in line with ethical standards, regulatory requirements, and organisational governance. You will play a critical role in shaping and embedding responsible AI practices across the enterprise, supporting the safe and compliant scaling of AI capabilities.
What You Will Do:
In this role you will lead the development and operationalisation of responsible AI frameworks and compliance processes, working closely with engineering, product, and governance stakeholders.
Key responsibilities:
- Define and maintain the organisation’s Responsible AI framework, including policies, standards, and ethical guidelines
- Translate regulatory requirements (e.g. EU AI Act, GDPR) into actionable controls for AI product development and deployment
- Implement AI risk assessment, bias detection, and model validation frameworks across AI products and services
- Embed governance checkpoints and compliance controls into development and release lifecycles
- Lead AI ethics reviews and ensure appropriate risk mitigation strategies are in place prior to deployment
- Monitor compliance posture, maintain audit-ready documentation, and support internal and external audits
- Manage AI incident response processes, ensuring issues are identified, investigated, and resolved effectively
- Act as the primary point of contact for responsible AI and compliance matters, supporting stakeholder engagement and training
Your Profile:
- Proven experience in AI governance, regulatory compliance, or technology risk management
- Strong knowledge of AI-related regulations such as the EU AI Act and GDPR
- Experience implementing responsible AI frameworks, ethical policies, or governance models within technology environments
- Understanding of AI/ML systems, including model risk, bias, fairness, and validation considerations
- Experience working within regulated industries such as life sciences, healthcare, or financial services
- Ability to embed compliance and governance processes into engineering and product workflows
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence across technical and business teams
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What ICON can offer you:
Our success depends on the quality of our people. That’s why we’ve made it a priority to build a diverse culture that rewards high performance and nurtures talent.
In addition to your competitive salary, ICON offers a range of additional benefits. Our benefits are designed to be competitive within each country and are focused on well-being and work life balance opportunities for you and your family.
Our benefits examples include:
- Various annual leave entitlements
- A range of health insurance offerings to suit you and your family’s needs.
- Competitive retirement planning offerings to maximize savings and plan with confidence for the years ahead.
- Global Employee Assistance Programme, LifeWorks, offering 24-hour access to a global network of over 80,000 independent specialized professionals who are there to support you and your family’s well-being.
- Life assurance
- Flexible country-specific optional benefits, including childcare vouchers, bike purchase schemes, discounted gym memberships, subsidized travel passes, health assessments, among others.
Visit our careers site to read more about the benefits ICON offers.
At ICON, inclusion & belonging are fundamental to our culture and values. We’re dedicated to providing an inclusive and accessible environment for all candidates. ICON is committed to providing a workplace free of discrimination and harassment. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.
If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, or in order to perform the essential functions of a position, please let us know or submit a request here
Interested in the role, but unsure if you meet all of the requirements? We would encourage you to apply regardless – there’s every chance you’re exactly what we’re looking for here at ICON whether it is for this or other roles.
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At ICON, our employees are our greatest strength. That’s why we are committed to empowering you to live your best life, both inside and outside of work. Whether your ambition is lead a global team, become a deep scientific or technical expert, work in-house with our customers or gain experience in a variety of different ICON functions, we will support you in realising your full potential. Learn more about Our Culture at ICON
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