Weekly measurement, snapshot September 28, 2026
The AI Governance Hiring Index
Who is hiring the people who govern AI, measured weekly from employers' own job boards.
Same measurement, other side of the industry: the Physical AI Hiring Index. Both feed the Apprenticeship Index, the entry-level share of AI hiring.
Who is hiring the people who govern AI?
As of September 28, 2026, 216 open roles at 14 of the 19 tracked AI employers carry governance, risk, compliance, privacy, legal, policy or safety in the title, out of 4,983 postings scanned. OpenAI (60), Anthropic (47) and Databricks (26) carry the most. The EU AI Act is the most named regulation (7 roles). Median disclosed pay is $293,500 (71 roles disclose it). Every posting links to the seat on our map it matches, and every seat to the graded program that closes the gap.
Up 10 governance-titled roles since September 21, 2026.
01 Demand
How many AI governance jobs are open right now?
216 as of September 28, 2026, counted from the public job boards of 19 tracked AI employers, 4.3 percent of the 4,983 postings scanned. 84 of them are senior, director or executive level. Only postings whose title names the work are counted, so this is a floor rather than a ceiling.
| Role family | Open roles |
|---|---|
| Governance, risk and compliance | 99 |
| Legal | 67 |
| Safety and evaluation | 26 |
| Policy | 23 |
| Other | 1 |
| Seniority | Open roles |
|---|---|
| Mid-level | 127 |
| Senior or lead | 68 |
| Director or principal | 14 |
| Entry or associate | 5 |
| Executive or head | 2 |
02 Employers
Which companies are hiring the most AI governance talent?
Ranked by open governance-titled roles this week: OpenAI (60 of 830 open roles), Anthropic (47 of 625 open roles), Databricks (26 of 887 open roles), NVIDIA (23 of 1,052 open roles) and OneTrust (13 of 92 open roles). Each employer page lists its roles and the regulations they name. The second figure is every open role at that employer, so you can see who is building governance capacity relative to their size.
| Employer | Governance roles | All open roles |
|---|---|---|
| OpenAI | 60 | 830 |
| Anthropic | 47 | 625 |
| Databricks | 26 | 887 |
| NVIDIA | 23 | 1,052 |
| OneTrust | 13 | 92 |
| xAI | 10 | 276 |
| Perplexity | 8 | 123 |
| Scale AI | 7 | 203 |
| ElevenLabs | 6 | 201 |
| Cohere | 4 | 145 |
| Ramp | 4 | 158 |
| Figure AI | 3 | 97 |
| Notion | 3 | 129 |
| Neuralink | 2 | 81 |
03 Regulations
Which regulations show up most in AI governance job postings?
Inside the governance roles: EU AI Act (7), GDPR (7), US state AI laws (7) and SOC 2 (6). Across every posting scanned at the tracked employers, governance role or not, the regulations named most are SOC 2 (13), EU AI Act (9) and GDPR (9). Each regulation page lists the roles that cite it and the graded competencies that answer it.
| Regulation or framework | Governance roles naming it |
|---|---|
| EU AI Act | 7 |
| GDPR | 7 |
| US state AI laws | 7 |
| SOC 2 | 6 |
| ISO/IEC 42001 | 2 |
| DORA | 1 |
| NIS2 | 1 |
| NIST AI RMF | 1 |
04 Skills
What skills do AI governance employers ask for?
Read from the same postings: legal and counsel (70), compliance and audit (49), trust and safety (46), model evaluation and red-teaming (25), privacy and data protection (20) and AI policy and public affairs (19). Each maps to graded competencies on the careers map, and every posting in the feed links to the seat it matches.
- Legal and counsel70
- Compliance and audit49
- Trust and safety46
- Model evaluation and red-teaming25
- Privacy and data protection20
- AI policy and public affairs19
- AI governance program15
- Data governance12
- Incident response11
- AI risk management4
- Vendor and procurement risk4
- AI literacy and training1
In the vocabulary of our map, the competencies these postings call for most: Regulatory change management, How models work, at a governance depth, Evidence collection and audit-ready documentation, Contract terms that allocate AI risk, AI evaluation and testing design, Control design and operating-effectiveness testing.
05 Seats on the map
Which roles on the careers map are these postings for?
129 of the 216 postings carry a title the map recognizes, matched by the titles postings really use for each seat. The rest are counted in the index and shown in the feed with the generic readiness check. Each role page shows its open postings, the competencies employers name and the readiness check for that seat.
Moving since September 21, 2026
- AI Engineer, production systems edition Evaluation and engineering23 open postingsup 2
- AI Regulatory Counsel Policy and regulation14 open postingsdown 2
- AI Program Manager Product, program and transformation11 open postingsup 1
- AI Auditor Risk, audit and assurance9 open postingsup 3
- AI Security Architect Security and resilience8 open postings
- AI Governance Engineer Evaluation and engineering7 open postingsup 1
- AI Policy Analyst Policy and regulation7 open postings
- Responsible AI Lead Governance and compliance7 open postings
- AI Evaluation Specialist Evaluation and engineering6 open postings
- AI Privacy Engineer Data and privacy6 open postings
- Governance Analyst Governance and compliance6 open postingsup 1
- Ethical AI Specialist Governance and compliance5 open postingsdown 1
- Security Compliance Manager Security and resilience4 open postings
- AI Governance Analyst Governance and compliance3 open postingsup 1
- AI Product Manager, responsible product edition Product, program and transformation3 open postingsdown 1
- AI Compliance Manager Governance and compliance2 open postingsdown 1
- AI Risk Manager Risk, audit and assurance2 open postings
- Compliance Analyst Governance and compliance2 open postings
- Data Governance Lead Data and privacy2 open postings
- AI Compliance Specialist Governance and compliance1 open posting
- AI Incident Response Lead Security and resilience1 open postingup 1
All 50 roles on the map, including the seats no tracked employer posted this week.
06 Pay
What do AI governance jobs pay?
Among the 71 governance-titled roles that disclose a US dollar range, the median midpoint is $293,500, with the middle half between $242,500 and $348,000. Disclosure is concentrated in US AI labs, so this is the top of the market, not a global average.
07 Newest
The newest governance postings this week
All 216 roles, filterable by regulation, family, seniority, employer and remote
08 Your move
See a role you cannot yet qualify for? That gap is a curriculum.
Every posting in the index is tagged with the regulations and skills it names, and those cross into the competencies our graded topics teach. Pick a posting, open the readiness check for its seat, and the path is merged from lessons that already exist. Nothing is authored per person, and the first module of every program is free.
- Certified Enterprise Governance, Risk and Compliance Professional (CEGP)
82 graded topics answer 41 of the competencies this week's postings name. First module free.
- Certified AI Governance Professional (CAIGP)
64 graded topics answer 41 of the competencies this week's postings name. First module free.
- Certified AI Practitioner: Workplace Foundations
75 graded topics answer 34 of the competencies this week's postings name. First module free.
- Certified China AI Regulatory Professional (CCARP)
47 graded topics answer 32 of the competencies this week's postings name. First module free.
Free first: the EU AI Act Explorer for the regulation these postings name most, and the US 50-State AI Law Atlas for the state laws behind US postings.
09 Method
How the index is built
Every week an automated crawler reads the public applicant-tracking-system feeds (Greenhouse, Ashby, Lever and one Workday tenant) of 19 tracked AI employers, keeps every posting whose title names governance, risk, compliance, privacy, legal, policy, audit, assurance, trust and safety, evaluation or AI safety work, and tags each against a fixed taxonomy of 12 regulations and 12 skill families (version 2026-09-05.2). Sales and trades titles are excluded by rule. Full descriptions are read for tagging and never republished.
Sources
The public job-board feeds of 19 employers: AI labs, AI platforms, governance vendors and robotics firms, seeded from a community list of AI employers and expanded by hand. 18 answered this crawl. Nothing is scraped from LinkedIn or Indeed. Every role links to the employer's own posting.
Classification
A posting enters the index when its title names the work. The body is then read for 12 regulations and 12 skill families with fixed patterns, after the equal-opportunity and benefits boilerplate is dropped. A first build also admitted any posting whose body hit two categories, which put solutions architects and payroll managers in an AI governance index; that rule is gone, and body citations are now reported separately as mentions across every posting scanned. Titles are matched to the careers map through each role's own title variants.
Cadence and history
Weekly. Every snapshot is archived, so the series can show regulation-citation velocity and per-employer hiring intensity over time. Taxonomy changes are versioned (this snapshot: 2026-09-05.2) so a rule change is never mistaken for a market move.
Limits, stated plainly
Coverage is the tracked employers, not the market: big-tech portals are not yet crawled, and Google DeepMind's board exposes only a handful of roles through this feed. One Workday tenant returns titles only, so its roles are tagged on the title alone and its count is a floor. Pay figures are the postings that disclose a US dollar range, mostly US labs. Classification is deterministic, so precision is high on title-level roles and a role titled unusually can be missed.
10 Data
Download and cite
The dataset is free to reuse under CC BY 4.0. Three files, rewritten weekly:
- postings.json: every governance-titled role with employer, link, location, regulations, skills, disclosed pay and matched seat. Never the description.
- index.json: every figure on this page, plus the taxonomy that produced it.
- companies.json: the tracked employers and each one's counts.
Cite as: GAGE (Global Academy of Generative-AI Education), "AI Governance Hiring Index", snapshot 2026-09-28, https://www.gage.academy/careers/hiring-index. Reuse under CC BY 4.0.
Questions
- How many AI governance jobs are open right now?
- 216 as of September 28, 2026, counted from the public job boards of 19 tracked AI employers, 4.3 percent of the 4,983 postings scanned. 84 of them are senior, director or executive level. Only postings whose title names the work are counted, so this is a floor rather than a ceiling.
- Which companies are hiring the most AI governance talent?
- Ranked by open governance-titled roles this week: OpenAI (60 of 830 open roles), Anthropic (47 of 625 open roles), Databricks (26 of 887 open roles), NVIDIA (23 of 1,052 open roles) and OneTrust (13 of 92 open roles). Each employer page lists its roles and the regulations they name.
- Which regulation appears most in AI governance job postings?
- Inside the governance roles: EU AI Act (7), GDPR (7), US state AI laws (7) and SOC 2 (6). Across every posting scanned at the tracked employers, governance role or not, the regulations named most are SOC 2 (13), EU AI Act (9) and GDPR (9). Each regulation page lists the roles that cite it and the graded competencies that answer it.
- What skills do AI governance employers ask for?
- Read from the same postings: legal and counsel (70), compliance and audit (49), trust and safety (46), model evaluation and red-teaming (25), privacy and data protection (20) and AI policy and public affairs (19). Each maps to graded competencies on the careers map, and every posting in the feed links to the seat it matches.
- What do AI governance jobs pay?
- Among the 71 governance-titled roles that disclose a US dollar range, the median midpoint is $293,500, with the middle half between $242,500 and $348,000. Disclosure is concentrated in US AI labs, so this is the top of the market, not a global average.
- How is the AI Governance Hiring Index built?
- Every week an automated crawler reads the public applicant-tracking-system feeds (Greenhouse, Ashby, Lever and one Workday tenant) of 19 tracked AI employers, keeps every posting whose title names governance, risk, compliance, privacy, legal, policy, audit, assurance, trust and safety, evaluation or AI safety work, and tags each against a fixed taxonomy of 12 regulations and 12 skill families (version 2026-09-05.2). Sales and trades titles are excluded by rule. Full descriptions are read for tagging and never republished.
- How often is it updated?
- Weekly. Each crawl refreshes every count on this page and the feed, and each snapshot is archived, so the series shows how governance hiring moves over time.
Looking for a seat that is not here this week? Where the jobs are carries live searches for every role on the map, and the AI Governance Manager page shows what the seat asks for.