Whoop
Director, Data Governance
$190K–$230K
Boston, MA · On-site · Director · Full-time · Posted Oct 15, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years in data, engineering, or data governance roles; 4+ years leading and building teams.
About the job
Leads WHOOP’s data governance function, setting strategy and standards to make company data trustworthy, secure, discoverable, and compliant while partnering with teams that implement them.
What you'll do
- Define the governance strategy, operating model, and roadmap for ownership, data contracts, event taxonomy, cataloging, access, quality, privacy, and compliance.
- Build and coach a small senior team; partner across technical and business functions to establish and drive adoption of governance standards.
- Set data quality, access, privacy, and compliance policies and champion AI-powered approaches to monitor data health and identify risks.
What they ask for
- 10+ years in data, engineering, or data governance roles, with a strong background in data governance, data quality, data engineering, or data platform.
- 4+ years of experience leading and building teams.
- Direct experience building data governance programs or frameworks.
- Experience implementing data quality frameworks with automated monitoring and alerting.
Nice to have
- Working knowledge of HIPAA, or willingness to develop deep expertise quickly.
- Proven track record managing data oversight for complex research initiatives, such as IRB-regulated studies or trials or regulatory filings for the FDA.
Pay
$190,000 - $230,000 USD base salary
Tools
Snowflake, dbt, Airflow, Snowflake RBAC, row-level security, dynamic data masking
AI focus
Champion AI-powered governance to surface data quality issues, ownership gaps, policy violations, and compliance risks; embrace and leverage AI tools in day-to-day work.
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