Working in AI Governance: The Function, the Skills, the Way In

Unlike the GDPR's data protection officer, the AI Act mandates no designated officer, which is why this work is currently done by people whose title says something else. This cursus describes the function rather than the job title: the seven recurring tasks, how they split across legal, risk, privacy and engineering, and where the seams fail. Then the four competencies and how deep each must go, with an honest read on certifications. Then what to actually produce, routes in from each adjacent profession, the first ninety days, and the parts of the work that are genuinely unpleasant.