The AI Governance Hiring Index

01 Demand

How many AI governance jobs are open right now?

204 as of September 5, 2026, counted from the public job boards of 19 tracked AI employers, 4.2 percent of the 4,904 postings scanned. 78 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.

02 Employers

Which companies are hiring the most AI governance talent?

Ranked by open governance-titled roles this week: OpenAI (57 of 779 open roles), Anthropic (39 of 594 open roles), Databricks (21 of 869 open roles), NVIDIA (21 of 1,042 open roles) and xAI (11 of 257 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.

03 Regulations

Which regulations show up most in AI governance job postings?

Inside the governance roles: EU AI Act (8), GDPR (6), SOC 2 (6) and US state AI laws (5). Across every posting scanned at the tracked employers, governance role or not, the regulations named most are SOC 2 (12), EU AI Act (11) and GDPR (9). Each regulation page lists the roles that cite it and the graded competencies that answer it.

04 Skills

What skills do AI governance employers ask for?

Read from the same postings: legal and counsel (72), compliance and audit (47), trust and safety (47), model evaluation and red-teaming (29), AI policy and public affairs (18) and privacy and data protection (17). Each maps to graded competencies on the careers map, and every posting in the feed links to the seat it matches.

• Legal and counsel72
• Compliance and audit47
• Trust and safety47
• Model evaluation and red-teaming29
• AI policy and public affairs18
• Privacy and data protection17
• Incident response13
• Data governance11
• AI governance program9
• Vendor and procurement risk5
• AI risk management3
• AI literacy and training2

In the vocabulary of our map, the competencies these postings call for most: Regulatory change management, Contract terms that allocate AI risk, Evidence collection and audit-ready documentation, How models work, at a governance depth, Control design and operating-effectiveness testing, AI risk and impact assessment.

05 Seats on the map

Which roles on the careers map are these postings for?

89 of the 204 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.

• AI Regulatory Counsel Policy and regulation14 open postings
• AI Privacy Engineer Data and privacy13 open postings
• AI Program Manager Product, program and transformation9 open postings
• AI Security Architect Security and resilience9 open postings
• AI Governance Engineer Evaluation and engineering8 open postings
• AI Auditor Risk, audit and assurance7 open postings
• Governance Analyst Governance and compliance6 open postings
• AI Policy Analyst Policy and regulation5 open postings
• Ethical AI Specialist Governance and compliance5 open postings
• AI Product Manager, responsible product edition Product, program and transformation3 open postings
• Compliance Analyst Governance and compliance3 open postings
• AI Governance Analyst Governance and compliance2 open postings
• AI Risk Manager Risk, audit and assurance2 open postings
• Data Governance Lead Data and privacy2 open postings
• AI Compliance Manager Governance and compliance1 open posting

All 45 roles on the map, including the seats no tracked employer posted this week.

06 Pay

What do AI governance jobs pay?

Among the 68 governance-titled roles that disclose a US dollar range, the median midpoint is $294,750, with the middle half between $242,500 and $355,500. 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 204 roles, filterable by regulation, family, seniority, employer and remote

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.

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 2026-09-05, https://www.gage.academy/careers/hiring-index. Reuse under CC BY 4.0.