Define and lead the data governance strategy, operating model, and roadmap spanning data ownership, contracts, event taxonomy, cataloging, access policy, data quality standards, and privacy and compliance (HIPAA, GDPR, CCPA), aligned with the DAA strategy.

Build, lead, and coach a small, senior team, developing your people while partnering closely with Staff level technical leaders across the org.

Establish a formal data ownership model, partnering with engineering and business stakeholders to assign stewardship and accountability for critical datasets.

Define the standards for data contracts between producing and consuming teams, covering schema stability, SLA adherence, and breaking-change management, with implementation owned by Data Platform & Engineering.

Own the event taxonomy governance framework, bringing structure to event tracking and standardizing how product and engineering teams define, name, and instrument events across platforms.

Set data quality standards (freshness, validation, monitoring) and the incident response expectations, partnering with Platform to operationalize automated testing and anomaly detection.

Champion AI powered governance approaches that proactively surface quality issues, ownership gaps, policy violations, and compliance risks.

Partner with GRC, Legal, and InfoSec to define the privacy, HIPAA, and compliance standards for how sensitive data is handled, which the platform then implements.

Define role-based access policy across the data platform, balancing security with self-service accessibility, with enforcement engineered by Platform.

Embed governance standards directly into engineering and developer workflows so the right way is the easy way, rather than relying on manual processes.

Develop governance metrics and reporting to track adoption, compliance, and data health across the organization.

Build a culture where trusted data is a shared responsibility across technical and business functions.

Director, Data Governance

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Whoop

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