Headspace

Data Governance Manager

Headspace

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: United States

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Salary

💰 $140,400 - $224,250 per year

About the role

  • Build and lead a scalable data governance program and operating model ensuring data is accurate, consistent, and secure across the enterprise
  • Define governance operating rhythms and decision frameworks (forums, ownership, escalation paths) that scale with the business
  • Drive adoption of governance practices through enablement, communication, and clear expectations—treating governance as a product
  • Define and implement data governance policies aligned with privacy, security, compliance, and ethical AI standards
  • Partner with Security, Legal, and Engineering to embed governance into tooling and workflows, enabling safe innovation in AI and analytics
  • Lead the strategy and implementation of a semantic/context layer (business glossary, metrics, data contracts, lineage) to standardize how data is understood
  • Ensure consistent data definitions and integration into core tools (BI, catalogs, transformation workflows) to reduce metric drift and improve usability
  • Improve data quality and trust at scale, including defining KPIs and driving remediation with data owners and engineering teams
  • Establish golden data sources, standards, and stewardship models to ensure accountability and cross-functional ownership
  • Develop a governance framework that supports privacy, security, compliance, and business continuity, including audit readiness, risk management, and access controls

Requirements

  • 5+ years in data governance, data management, analytics engineering, data program management, or adjacent roles with strong cross-functional influence.
  • Demonstrated ability to build governance programs that people actually use—balancing enablement with control.
  • Strong understanding of privacy/security principles as they apply to data (access controls, classification, retention, least privilege, auditability).
  • Experience defining and operationalizing data quality programs and working with engineering/data teams on remediation.
  • Proven success partnering with leaders across Product, Engineering, Analytics, Security, Legal/Privacy, and Operations.
  • Excellent communication skills—able to translate between technical teams and business stakeholders.
  • Healthcare / regulated data experience (e.g., HIPAA/PHI environments, sensitive member/patient data, clinical or outcomes-oriented analytics) (preferred).
  • Experience enabling ethical and responsible AI practices (e.g., governance for training data, model inputs/outputs, risk reviews, bias considerations, human-in-the-loop controls) (preferred).
  • Hands-on experience implementing or operating a semantic layer / metrics layer / business glossary and building shared definitions across BI and data products (preferred).
  • Familiarity with modern data governance and analytics tooling (examples: data catalogs, lineage/metadata, metric layers, data quality monitoring, and transformation frameworks—tool-agnostic experience is fine) (preferred).
Benefits
  • comprehensive healthcare coverage
  • monthly wellness stipend
  • retirement savings match
  • lifetime Headspace membership
  • generous parental leave
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
data governancedata managementanalytics engineeringdata program managementdata quality programssemantic layermetrics layerbusiness glossarydata integrationKPI definition
Soft Skills
cross-functional influenceenablementcommunicationstakeholder translationaccountabilityleadershipstrategic thinkingproblem-solvingcollaborationadaptability