Director, Data Governance

The role

You will lead the data governance function by defining the strategy, operating model, and roadmap for data ownership, quality, and compliance. You will build and lead a senior team to implement governance layers on top of a mature data platform.

What you will do

• Define and lead the data governance strategy, operating model, and roadmap
• Build, lead, and coach a small, senior team
• Establish a formal data ownership model
• Define standards for data contracts between producing and consuming teams
• Own the event taxonomy governance framework
• Set data quality standards and incident response expectations
• Champion AI powered governance approaches
• Partner with GRC, Legal, and InfoSec to define privacy and compliance standards
• Define role-based access policy across the data platform
• Embed governance standards into engineering and developer workflows

Required qualifications

• 10+ years in data, engineering, or data governance roles
• 4+ years of experience leading and building teams
• Direct experience building data governance programs or frameworks
• Hands-on experience with Snowflake, dbt, Airflow/orchestration, and data catalog/lineage tools
• Working knowledge of healthcare data regulations (HIPAA), or willingness to develop deep expertise quickly
• Experience implementing data quality frameworks with automated monitoring and alerting
• Experience with access control design and administration in cloud data platforms (Snowflake RBAC, row-level security, dynamic data masking)
• Ability to drive cross-functional alignment on data standards and policies
• Experience operating in regulated environments
• Proven track record managing data oversight for complex research initiatives, such as IRB-regulated studies or trials or regulatory filings for the FDA
• Excellent executive communication and organizational leadership
• A player-coach orientation

Nice to have

• ideally in a high-growth environment where governance was not yet formalized

Benefits

• competitive base salaries
• meaningful equity
• generous equity package

Before you apply

• The successful candidate must be prepared to relocate if necessary to work out of the Boston, MA office
• WHOOP participates in E-verify to determine employment eligibility

About the company

WHOOP is a data company that empowers members to perform at a higher level through a deeper understanding of their bodies and daily lives.