Job Description

Hungryroot is seeking an experienced Director of Data Platform & Governance to lead Hungryroot’s centralized data function, responsible for data engineering, data governance, and business intelligence infrastructure. This role will own the foundation that enables data-driven decision making across the organization, ensuring data integrity, accessibility, and security while building scalable platforms for analytics consumption.

Responsibilities

• Establish Centralized Data Governance
• Implement and enforce a centralized data dictionary and metric ownership model
• Create data access permissions, frameworks and compliance controls
• Formalize data ownership across teams
• Drive BI Platform Ownership and Self-Service Analytics
• Own BI tool end to end including dashboarding strategy, architecture, governance, and permissions
• Standardize dashboard/report design and create certified dashboards
• Empower analyst teams and business users via managed self-service tools
• Build and Maintain Scalable Data Infrastructure
• Oversee data engineering, platforms and integration processes
• Own Databricks and data aggregation
• Create single source of truth for dashboards and metrics
• Ensure clear data lineage and ownership
• Support decentralized Insights delivery via centralized foundation
• Ensure availability, performance, and security of data assets
• Enable Organizational Alignment and Strategic Partnership
• Serve as connected foundation for Insights, Product, Finance, and other business teams
• Extend best practices to embedded and specialized Analytics functions across the org
• Support experimentation and robust product analytics
• Partner closely with Insights team
• Partner and align with Data Science team
• Work with business units to understand data needs
• Collaborate with IT and cybersecurity teams
• Participate in cross-functional projects

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in data engineering, data platform management, or related technical roles
• 3+ years of people management experience, including leading technical teams
• Proven track record of building and scaling enterprise data platforms
• Experience implementing data governance programs in complex organizations, with public company experience a plus
• Ability to deeply understand business strategy and drivers and translate business requirements into technical solutions
• Deep expertise in modern data stack technologies
• Proficiency with cloud platforms and their respective data services
• Familiarity with data modeling, data architecture principles, and metadata management
• Experience working in a B2C environment preferred
• Strong project management and organizational skills
• Excellent communication and track record of driving change with both technical and business stakeholders

Benefits

• No benefits