Senior Manager, Data Governance

The role

You will lead the Data Governance team as a player-coach. You will own programs, standards, and cross-functional relationships to enable self-serve analytics.

What you will do

• Lead and develop the Data Governance team
• Own the foundational governance buildout including metadata standards and taxonomy
• Run ongoing governance programs such as asset certification and data quality observability
• Own the data catalog Atlan
• Set and enforce certification standards
• Serve as a subject matter expert for Data & Analytics and cross-functional stakeholders
• Drive an AI-native way of working and thinking
• Contribute to the data governance strategy and roadmap

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in a data role such as analytics engineering, data engineering, or data governance
• Hands-on experience in SQL and dbt
• 3+ years in people management
• Experience owning data governance, data quality, or data standards programs
• Strong proficiency in SQL
• Working experience with dbt and dimensional modeling
• Demonstrated experience with managing data catalogs or data governance tooling (Atlan, Alation, Collibra, or similar)
• Hands-on fluency with AI tooling
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Nice to have

• Experience working in a startup or high-growth environment where programs had to be built from scratch

Benefits

• Welcoming and casual environment
• Great benefits
• Wellness program offerings
• Company retreats

About the company

Justworks helps businesses get off the ground by enabling them to focus on running their business. They solve HR issues and are a data-driven company.