AI Governance Specialist: A Beginner's Guide to Turning Your Compliance, Audit, or Data Background into Your First AI Governance Role in 90 Days — Ebook (EPUB + PDF)

You already do a version of this job without the title for it. If you read regulations and turn them into policy, sit between the people who build things and the people who have to answer for what gets built, or catch a problem before it becomes someone else's emergency — you're closer to an AI Governance Specialist role than the job title suggests. The numbers back that up: AI governance postings grew roughly 150% year over year, more than 14,000 openings carried the title by late 2025 with no seasonal dip in hiring, and 98.5% of organizations say they don't have enough people doing this work. Median pay, per IAPP's Salary and Jobs Report, sits around $151,800.

This book closes the one gap that actually matters: the AI-specific layer on top of skills you already have. You'll learn the EU AI Act's four-tier risk model as a reusable classification tool, not legal trivia — and get the misconception corrected that trips up almost everyone new to the field: for nearly every high-risk system, "conformity assessment" means your organization checking its own work, not hiring outside auditors. You'll walk a full week in the job, from a Monday governance-gate queue to a Wednesday bias audit that turns up a real fairness gap, get a step-by-step guide to the AIGP certification, learn the two due-diligence questions that expose whether a posting is real new headcount or a relabeled compliance job with no power to block anything, and build two full STAR-method interview answers before following a dated 90-day plan to your first application.

Inside

• The EU AI Act's four-tier risk model — prohibited, high-risk, limited-risk, minimal-risk — taught through worked examples (a mortgage pre-screening tool, a school's at-risk flagging model) and a self-check exercise to sort four systems yourself
• The conformity-assessment misconception corrected: for almost all high-risk AI systems it's an internal self-assessment your organization owns, with third-party audit legally required only for biometric identification systems
• A full week inside the job — Monday intake triage, a Wednesday bias audit on a lending model that surfaces a real approval-rate gap, and a Thursday vendor review that sends a resume-screening tool back for missing bias-testing evidence
• The AIGP certification walked step by step: no prerequisites, 100 questions, a 300-of-500 passing score, $649–$799, 30–60 hours of study, and the documented roughly 13% pay premium for holders
• Two due-diligence questions that expose whether a posting is real new headcount or a relabeled role, and whether a governance function can actually say no to a launch — shown through a candidate comparing two real job offers
• Two fully built STAR-method interview answers and a dated 90-day plan that ends with you building a real mock conformity-documentation pack to bring to an interview

Written for the compliance analyst, privacy officer, IT auditor, data engineer, or business analyst with real adjacent experience but none of it in AI governance yet — this book assumes that starting point, not a blank résumé.

What you get: the complete ebook as EPUB (Kindle, Kobo, Apple Books and every reader app) and as PDF, delivered the moment you pay. Book 1 of the From Experience to Evidence AI Governance Specialist series.

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