Principal Trust Governance Lead

Autodesk Autodesk · Enterprise · AMER - Canada - Ontario - Offsite +3

This role focuses on defining and operationalizing mechanisms for building and releasing trusted services and products, particularly within the context of AI enablement. The Principal Trust Governance Lead will evolve and implement a framework derived from Trust policies and standards, translating them into 'Trust Baselines' and ensuring accountability through measurement. The role involves partnering with various domain teams, including Trusted AI, and supporting the integration of Trust requirements into developer workflows, including AI-assisted tools and CI/CD copilots. It also aims to identify and embed automation opportunities within governance operations and operating cadences.

What you'd actually do

  1. Evolve and implement a framework to drive the delivery of trusted services and products by deriving Trust expectations directly from Trust Policies, Standards, and Procedures and translating them into Trust Baselines
  2. Define baseline guidance, measurable conformance criteria, and evidence expectations that can be met through repeatable signals (design artifacts, controls, telemetry, testing, and operational readiness)
  3. Establish and maintain measurement and reporting that reflects real adoption and posture—not just process completion—and drive follow-through on gaps and remediation plans
  4. Design and run cross-portfolio cadences that make Trust delivery visible and actionable (e.g., portfolio Trust reviews, baseline adoption reviews, exception burn-down, readiness signals)
  5. Provide leaders with consistent views of Trust posture across portfolios and support prioritization and removal of systemic blockers

Skills

Required

  • 8+ years of experience (or equivalent experience) in one or more: product security, privacy engineering/governance, cloud resilience/SRE, enterprise risk/governance, or trust assurance—with strong cross-functional influence
  • Demonstrated experience translating policy/standards into clear, adoptable engineering expectations and measurable requirements/baselines
  • Proven track record building accountability mechanisms in a matrixed organization (ownership models, outcome scorecards, adoption programs, operating cadences)
  • Strong program leadership and executive communication skills, including crisp reporting of posture, gaps, risks, and actions
  • Experience supporting audits or operating in regulated environments without turning governance into bureaucracy

Nice to have

  • Strong analytical and systems-thinking skills; able to connect governance intent to measurable outcomes
  • Experience designing measurement frameworks, dashboards, and evidence readiness approaches for technical programs
  • Experience working across large-scale product/platform organizations and coordinating across multiple portfolios
  • Familiarity with governance tooling and workflows that support exception lifecycle management and posture reporting
  • Working knowledge across cloud security, privacy principles, resilience/SRE practices, and responsible AI/trusted AI concepts

What the JD emphasized

  • partner closely with Trust domain teams (Security, Privacy, Resilience, Trusted AI)
  • define practical expectations
  • create transparent operating cadences
  • use measurable signals to drive durable posture improvements
  • support the enablement of Trust requirements into developer workflows (including AI-assisted coding and CI/CD copilots)
  • identify automation opportunities
  • embed them into operating cadences and dashboards
  • define repeatable AI-assisted workflows for governance operations
  • operating in regulated environments