Director, Data Strategy and Data Governance

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POSITION TITLE:  Director, Data Strategy & Data Governance

LOCATION:  NY, NY (hybrid position)                                       

The Director of Data Strategy & Data Governance is responsible for leading and operationalizing the organization’s product data governance framework, ensuring data integrity, consistency, and quality across systems. This role serves as a key bridge between data strategy and execution, focusing on both governance implementation and data quality improvement efforts.

This role requires a mix of strategic governance expertise and hands-on data leadership, ensuring that product data is well-structured, standardized, and aligned with business needs. The Director will collaborate with IT, product teams, business leaders, and data professionals to define governance policies, oversee data quality initiatives, and drive cross-functional alignment on data management practices.

The Director of Data Strategy & Data Governance needs to have the experience and competencies to proactively lead collaborative efforts across business groups, functional teams, at multi levels.  They are accountable to provide stable foundation for procedures & processes that will enable execution of Business goals.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES/ACCOUNTABILITIES OF THE JOB:

Data Governance Leadership & Execution

• Develop and implement data governance policies, standards, and best practices to ensure data integrity and consistency.

• Partner with the Senior Director of Data Strategy & Governance to define priorities and execution roadmaps.

• Establish governance workflows, data ownership models, and standardization guidelines for product data.

• Provide data governance training and awareness programs to stakeholders.

• Support the evolution of maturity of governance, setting the foundation for future data stewardship models.

• Ensure product data governance aligns with regulatory and compliance requirements.

Data Quality & Standardization

• Define and track data quality KPIs, ensuring continuous monitoring and improvement of data completeness, accuracy, and consistency.

• Work closely with IT and business teams to map data flows across systems and resolve inconsistencies.

• Lead data remediation efforts and drive data cleansing initiatives to improve product data accuracy.

• Lead data change request process supporting global/regional needs

• Resolve potential and actual cross functional process challenges that affect data flow between NA & EU Systems

Cross-Functional Collaboration & Enablement (Business & IT Alignment)

• Partner with product, IT, and analytics teams to ensure data governance policies are effectively implemented.

• Act as the bridge between business needs and technical execution, advocating for adoption of governance.

• Work closely with data engineers to optimize data pipelines, transformations, and integration strategies.

• Partner in metadata management, taxonomy structures, and product data classification efforts.

Team Development & Future Growth

• Lead and mentor data governance and quality analysts, as the team expands.

• Define governance roles and responsibilities, including future data stewardship functions.

• Support executive leadership in shaping the long-term vision for data governance.

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE: