Senior Manager, Responsible AI Lead

At Johnson & Johnson, we believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build a world where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured, where treatments are smarter and less invasive, and solutions are personal. Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow, and profoundly impact health for humanity. Learn more at jnj.com.

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Job Function:

Data Analytics & Computational Sciences

Job Sub Function:

Data Governance & Policy

Job Category:

Professional

All Job Posting Locations:

Prague, Czechia

Job Description:

Senior Manager, Responsible AI Lead Location: Prague, Czech RepublicContract: Full Time/Hybrid About the Role:HR Data & Intelligence sits at the heart of Johnson & Johnson’s HR Digital ecosystem, architecting the intelligence layer that shapes how the company understands, engages, and mobilizes its global workforce. This organization builds and operationalizes enterprise-scale data, analytics, and AI capabilities that do more than inform decisions—they reshape how HR plans, predicts, personalizes, and performs. By unifying data science, employee listening, knowledge management, and responsible AI, HR Data & Intelligence is transforming workforce signals into strategic advantage, ensuring HR is not only insight-led and future ready, but a trusted steward of ethical, human-centered intelligence at scale.The Senior Manager, Responsible AI Lead is a senior individual contributor within the Data Science Services organization, reporting directly to the Head of Data Science Services. This role provides advisory leadership, policy interpretation, and oversight for AI and advanced analytics use cases across HR, ensuring alignment with local, regional, and global privacy, legal, regulatory, and ethical standards. This is a highly collaborative role that partners closely with Privacy, Legal, Data Governance, and enterprise councils to translate evolving requirements into practical guidance for teams building and operating AI solutions. This role operates as a trusted advisory to data science and product teams, helping them navigate responsible AI considerations through the lifecycle of AI use cases – from early design through deployment and ongoing operation.Key Responsibilities:

• Serve as the primary Responsible AI liaison between HR Data & Intelligence and enterprise partners including Privacy, Legal, Data Governance, Risk, and AI councils.
• Stay current on emerging AI‑related regulations, policies, and industry standards, assessing implications for existing and planned HR AI and analytics use cases.
• Advise data science, decision products, and HR product teams on responsible AI design and use‑case decisions, including fairness, transparency, explain-ability, data usage, and human oversight.
• Develop and maintain Responsible AI standards, guidance, and assessment frameworks tailored to HR use cases, in alignment with enterprise policies • Lead Responsible AI reviews and impact assessments for active and proposed AI use cases, including reassessments when regulations, policies, or risk thresholds change.
• Support enforcement of Responsible AI standards by identifying gaps, risks, or remediation needs.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field (e.g., Data Science, Computer Science, Law, Public Policy, Ethics, Information Systems, or related discipline).
• 10+ years of experience working at the intersection of AI/analytics, policy, risk, privacy, or regulatory compliance. Ideally with experience working with Responsible AI, AI ethics, or AI risk frameworks in industry or large enterprises.
• Demonstrated experience advising teams on ethical, legal, or responsible use of data and AI, ideally in a complex enterprise environment; Experience partnering closely with Legal, Privacy, Compliance, or Risk organizations.
• Strong understanding of AI and advanced analytics concepts, sufficient to assess use cases, risks, and mitigation strategies.
• Proven ability to interpret evolving policies or regulations and translate them into clear, actionable guidance for technical and non‑technical teams.
• Familiarity with privacy regulations and AI‑adjacent regulatory environments (e.g., GDPR, emerging AI‑specific regulations).
• Exposure to AI use cases in HR, people analytics, or employee‑facing systems.
• Exceptional stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence without direct authority.
• Comfort operating as a single‑threaded expert role, balancing advisory leadership with practical delivery realities.

Required Skills:

Preferred Skills:

Advanced Analytics, Analytics Dashboards, Business Behavior, Database Management, Data Governance, Data Management, Data Privacy Standards, Data Savvy, Data Security, Data Stewardship, Emerging Technologies, Information Security Risk Management, Organizing, Performance Measurement, Standard Operating Procedure (SOP), Strategic Thinking, Technical Credibility

  

The anticipated base pay range for this position is:

Kč1,641,000.00 - Kč2,830,150.00

Benefits:

In addition to base pay, we offer the following benefits*: an annual bonus with set target (% of pay) depending on pay grade / location, where the actual amount is based on the employees’ and companies’ performance of the previous calendar year, or sales commissions. Moreover, we offer vacation days, parental leave for a minimum of 12 weeks, bereavement leave, caregiver leave, volunteer leave, well-being reimbursement, programs for financial, physical and mental health. We also offer service anniversary and recognition awards, and subject to the terms of their respective plans, employees - and in some location’s eligible dependents - can participate in several insurance plans. For more information, visit Employee benefits | Supporting well-being & career growth | Johnson & Johnson Careers.

*This is for informative purposes only. Amounts and actual benefits may vary by location and are subject to change.