Managing Director – Regional Business — AI Safety Programme

The mandate

A change in the economics of the sector has made urgent several country operations requiring a single commercial and operating owner within a institutionally backed enterprise artificial-intelligence products company. The immediate arena is the AI safety programme during a post-funding scale-up. For mandate 185, the successful executive inherits decisions that have been deferred, competing stakeholder expectations and a need to establish facts before committing further capital.

The Managing Director – Regional Business operating perimeter covers approximately US$750 million in AI product and services revenue, with activity spanning several AI safety programme customer, product and delivery clusters rather than a single asset. The Managing Director – Regional Business Artificial Intelligence remit carries direct influence over roughly 550 colleagues and third-party capacity.

The chair, executive committee and principal capital sponsors want a Managing Director – Regional Business who can convert ambiguity into a short list of explicit choices for the AI safety programme. The Managing Director – Regional Business Artificial Intelligence seat must resolve a post-funding scale-up, while preserving the underlying strengths of the AI safety programme. For mandate 185, value will come through sharper allocation, stronger leaders and an operating cadence that exposes variance early.

The Managing Director – Regional Business’s first year on the AI safety programme is expected to end with portfolio profitability, leadership consistency and selective expansion. In mandate 185, authority covers resources and leadership appointments; material trade-offs go directly to the board sponsor.

Why this seat is open

The Managing Director – Regional Business — AI Safety Programme requirement was not included in the approved hiring calendar. It became urgent after a post-funding scale-up created an immediate need for one accountable owner of the ai safety programme. Interim coverage protects essential decisions, but split ownership cannot continue through the next operating gate. The board intends to move from qualified shortlist to offer within 4–6 weeks while preserving confidential, evidence-led diligence.

What you will own

• Set the Managing Director – Regional Business value-creation thesis for the AI safety programme, translate it into no more than five enterprise priorities and stop work that does not support them.
• Carry stewardship of approximately US$750 million in AI product and services revenue, including allocation, risk acceptance and board forecasts.
• Lead the Managing Director – Regional Business Artificial Intelligence organisation of about 550 employees and partners, appointing a team with clear decision rights and credible succession for every critical seat.
• Resolve the AI safety programme economics and execution constraints created by a post-funding scale-up, with Managing Director – Regional Business-approved owners, dated milestones and transparent escalation thresholds.
• Establish one Managing Director – Regional Business operating review across commercial, customer, financial, people, technology and risk outcomes for the AI safety programme; remove reconciliations that obscure accountability.
• Have led a country, division or operating entity with direct commercial, people and governance accountability in mandate 185.
• Build the Managing Director – Regional Business’s three-year succession and capability plan for the AI safety programme, reducing dependence on individual executives and improving mobility across the wider Artificial Intelligence organisation.

The first 12 months

• Days 1–90: Validate the AI safety programme baseline, meet the 30 stakeholders most consequential to several country operations requiring a single commercial and operating owner, assess the leadership team, stabilise immediate delivery risks and agree a board-owned scorecard with explicit decision gates.
• Months 4–9: Make the principal Managing Director – Regional Business portfolio and organisation choices for the AI safety programme, install the new operating cadence, fill critical leadership gaps and deliver the first measurable release of cash, capacity or customer value.
• Months 10–12: Demonstrate a repeatable AI safety programme trend against portfolio profitability, leadership consistency and selective expansion, lock the following year’s capital and talent plan, evidence control sustainability and present a credible three-year value case with downside actions.

What the board will measure

• Delivery of the Managing Director – Regional Business’s agreed first-year AI safety programme value case within a 10% tolerance, with variance explained before rather than after the relevant quarter closes.
• A Managing Director – Regional Business forecast that remains decision-useful across three consecutive quarters and reconciles the AI safety programme’s operating, cash, customer and people assumptions.
• Closure of the Managing Director – Regional Business mandate’s highest-priority AI safety programme risk and execution issues by their board-approved dates, with independent evidence that fixes are sustained.
• Retention of at least 90% of critical AI safety programme talent and ready-now successors for at least 70% of the Managing Director – Regional Business’s direct reports.
• A quantified Managing Director – Regional Business-owned improvement in the AI safety programme operating constraint behind a post-funding scale-up, supported by a clean baseline and named data owner.
• Clear stakeholder confidence in mandate 185: no unresolved high-severity escalation older than 30 days and no material surprise withheld from its agreed governance forum.

The person

You are currently a Regional MD, Area President or multi-country General Manager in a institutionally backed Artificial Intelligence or adjacent enterprise. In relation to the AI safety programme, your Managing Director – Regional Business track record includes a transition where the original plan was no longer sufficient; you can explain your choices, evidence and numerical impact. Candidates from AI, enterprise software, data infrastructure, cloud, analytics or applied research will be considered where the operating model, customer stakes and governance intensity match this Managing Director – Regional Business brief.

As a Managing Director – Regional Business candidate, you bring 28+ years of progressive Artificial Intelligence or adjacent-sector experience, consistent with the 28-plus experience band. At minimum, you have carried a P&L, book, budget or accountable portfolio of US$1,200 million and led an organisation of at least 550 people.

For mandate 185, the board wants two transitions: a difficult AI safety programme portfolio choice and a leadership-system change during a post-funding scale-up. As the prospective Managing Director – Regional Business for this AI safety programme, you must challenge optimistic cases and still create followership. References for mandate 185 must distinguish your contribution from the institution around you.

The Managing Director – Regional Business must be based in New York; international relocation is supported, but this Artificial Intelligence role is not designed as a remote appointment.

Non-negotiables

• Current or recent accountability at the level of Regional MD, Area President or multi-country General Manager, with direct exposure to a board, investment committee or equivalent Artificial Intelligence governance forum.
• Proven Managing Director – Regional Business ownership of at least US$1,200 million and leadership of no fewer than 550 employees in a comparable AI safety programme context.
• One completed Artificial Intelligence or adjacent-sector example of several country operations requiring a single commercial and operating owner with outcomes sustained for at least two reporting periods after the initial intervention.
• Sector credibility from AI, enterprise software, data infrastructure, cloud, analytics or applied research; experience that is purely functional and lacks Managing Director – Regional Business-level AI safety programme consequences will not meet the bar.
• Willingness to meet the New York location expectation, complete conflicts and background diligence, and protect the confidentiality of mandate 185.

Compensation and terms

The anticipated Managing Director – Regional Business package is US$600,000–850,000 base + annual incentive and long-term equity, calibrated to the final AI safety programme scope and the candidate’s current mix. Any long-term participation for mandate 185 follows standard vesting and performance conditions. The Managing Director – Regional Business appointment in New York, centred on the AI safety programme, offers regular exposure to the chair, executive committee and principal capital sponsors. A notice period of up to 6 months can be accommodated for the selected executive in mandate 185.

Confidentiality

To protect the board, incumbent team and candidate, the organisation remains unnamed until a confidential conversation confirms mutual relevance for mandate 185. The operating facts have been rounded and blended expressly to remove identifying signals for mandate 185.