Technical Program Manager edition
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AI governance and safety

Runs the policies, reviews, and documentation that keep AI systems compliant with internal standards and new AI regulation.

Also called: responsible AI, AI risk management, AI Act compliance, model governance, AI safety

How the score was computed

News signal0.58

News signal 0.58: 3 verified article(s) mention this skill, weighted by how recent they are, source type, and evidence level (1.74 of 3 needed for a full signal). Strong means at least 0.4.

JD signal6%

JD signal 0.06: 0 of 16 job descriptions require it and 2 prefer it (preferred counts 0.5). Strong means at least 35%.

Momentum+0.92

Momentum +0.92: 2 article(s) in the last 30 days vs 1 in the 180 days before, compared per day.

In the news 5

  • ServiceNow and Nvidia launch Arc, a new AI agent for enterprise

    ZDNET · Trade press · Oct 21, 2026

    “IT defines policies in the Super Intelligence Control Tower”
    Strong evidenceAI-generated · Shift Extraction

    IT teams define agent policies, risk tolerance, and allowed services centrally in a control tower, using AI Passport rules that are enforced at runtime and allow later audit of contained actions.

  • Managing open-weight model risk in enterprise deployments

    Microsoft Azure Blog · Primary source · Oct 16, 2026

    “introduces a shared risk taxonomy and an approach to managing model risks”
    Strong evidenceAI-generated · Shift Extraction

    Microsoft and NVIDIA published joint guidance with a shared risk taxonomy that tells enterprises to tie each model risk to evaluations, mitigations, and accountable owners.

  • Managing open-weight model risk in enterprise deployments

    Microsoft Azure Blog · Primary source · Oct 16, 2026

    “built-in and custom evaluations and automated red teaming”
    Strong evidenceAI-generated · Shift Extraction

    Microsoft Foundry offers built-in and custom evaluations, automated red teaming, and configurable content-safety controls for assessing and mitigating model risk.

  • Managing open-weight model risk in enterprise deployments

    Microsoft Azure Blog · Primary source · Oct 16, 2026

    “enterprises that operate their own model deployments may take on controls”
    Moderate evidenceAI-generated · Shift Extraction

    Enterprises that run their own open-weight model deployments may take on safeguards that a managed service would otherwise provide, so ownership of controls must be defined and revisited as deployments change.

  • Making Your Data Ready for Agentic AI

    martinfowler.com · Blog · Aug 27, 2026

    “Access must be scoped, controlled, and auditable.”
    Moderate evidenceAI-generated · Shift Extraction

    Agent decisions need to be traceable and governed, with captured reasoning and access that is scoped, controlled, and auditable by design.

In job postings 2

  • Figmapreferred

    Technical Program Manager - AI Tooling · Mid (5+ yrs) · captured Oct 27, 2026

    “Experience with responsible AI, model governance, security, privacy, compliance”
  • Scale AIpreferred

    Technical Program Manager, Red Team · Mid · captured Oct 27, 2026

    “Genuine interest in AI safety, evidenced in prior work, writing, or research.”

Waiting for an editor (not counted yet)

  • Emerging trends in AI agent evaluation: The article calls for an expanded and more diverse set of evaluators and notes a growing influx of people entering the AI evaluation ecosystem.
    • Extractor confidence 0.60 is below 0.7; evidence level is Weak
  • ServiceNow and Nvidia launch Arc, a new AI agent for enterprise: Inadequate security controls are described as a main roadblock to companies adopting more autonomous AI systems, which is driving security-first agent offerings.
    • Extractor confidence 0.65 is below 0.7; evidence level is Weak