AI Governance Analyst 1
The Opportunity Datadog is hiring a Governance Analyst to focus on the unique challenges of AI Orchestration. This role requires a blend of technical acumen, policy understanding, and process design skills to ensure AI systems operate within lawful and policy-compliant boundaries by design .
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AI Governance Analyst 1 at Datadog in New York City. UpJobz keeps this listing high-signal for applicants targeting serious high-tech roles across the United States, Canada, and Mexico. The Opportunity Datadog is hiring a Governance Analyst to focus on the unique challenges of AI Orchestration. This role requires a blend of technical acumen, policy understanding, and process design skills to ensure AI systems operate within lawful and policy-compliant boundaries by design .
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- AI Orchestration Governance & Process Design Develop governance standards and policy enforcement for AI-powered features and internal orchestration systems.
- Design and implement workflows for defining, reviewing, and tracking governance constraints at the prompt, pipeline, and infrastructure level.
- Define and implement audit surfaces for AI-generated code and model behavior to ensure accountability.
- Develop monitoring and reporting frameworks for data flows through automated pipelines and LLM tool-use chains.
- Own the governance lifecycle for new AI features, from risk scoping to operational monitoring.
- Cross-Functional Partnership & Influence Lead sessions with engineering, product, legal, and compliance to assess risk and design scalable solutions.
What a strong candidate brings
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- Designs and implements process guardrails and controls upstream —within AI orchestration prompts, system architecture, and LLM pipeline design—to ensure continuous governance.
- Partners with engineering and legal teams to define, monitor, and audit the behavior of AI agents operating at scale.
- Develops new governance workflows and documentation standards to manage the novel risks of AI-generated code, model behavior, and automated data flows.
- Audits our AI landscape surface, including AI-generated code, model behavior, and data flow through automated pipelines.
- Analyzes risk that comes from AI agents operating between human oversight moments, occurring faster and at greater volume.
- Achieves compliance with external frameworks through Governance-as-Architecture, Model Output Monitoring, Constraint Layer Auditing, and Policy Implementation Workflow.
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- New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
- Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
- Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
- An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)
- Access to Inclusion Talks, our internal panel discussions
- Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+
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