Senior Manager, Enterprise Data Governance & Products

• • Posted on November 9, 2026

• 1550 Utica Ave. S., Suite 160 Minneapolis, MN 554
  Minneapolis, MN 55416, USA
• Remote
• Information Technology
• Full-Time
• Requisition #: SENIO
  005099

The Opportunity

The Enterprise Data Governance Leader is responsible for implementing, operationalizing, and continuously improving the organization’s enterprise data governance program, while serving as the product leader for prioritized enterprise data products and data capabilities. Working from a framework developed with an external advisor, this role serves as the internal program owner—translating strategy into sustainable business practices, clear accountabilities, measurable outcomes, and disciplined governance routines.

This role establishes the governance structures, standards, ownership models, decision rights, and operating disciplines needed to create trusted enterprise data. The role also ensures that governed data is translated into valuable, reusable data products that enable reporting, analytics, operational decision-making, automation, and future AI capabilities.

Working across business, governance, product, data, analytics, architecture, and technology teams, this position connects authoritative business meaning with product delivery. The role owns the effectiveness and adoption of the enterprise data governance program and is accountable for the vision, prioritization, lifecycle, adoption, and value realization of assigned enterprise data products.

What You’ll Do

Program Implementation & Product Ownership

• Lead implementation of the enterprise data governance framework, including roadmap, milestones, dependencies, communications, change management, and transition to business-as-usual operations.
• Translate the framework into actionable processes, standards, roles, responsibilities, decision rights, governance forums, and operating cadences.
• Serve as the long-term internal owner of the governance program, maintaining and evolving the framework as business needs, systems, organizational structures, and data requirements change.
• Assess program effectiveness, adoption, and maturity; identify improvement opportunities; and maintain a multi-year roadmap to advance data governance capabilities.

Governance Operating Model & Accountability

• Implement and sustain the Data Owner and Data Steward operating model, including expectations, participation, accountability, escalation paths, decision logs, and action plans.
• Facilitate the Enterprise Data Governance Council and related governance forums to resolve cross-functional issues, align priorities, and drive enterprise accountability.
• Embed governance responsibilities into business and system processes so ownership, stewardship, standards, and decision-making are consistently applied.

Data Standards, Tooling & Quality

• Implement enterprise standards for business definitions, critical data elements, ownership, stewardship, metadata, data documentation, and data quality governance.
• Coordinate creation and maintenance of the enterprise business glossary, data definitions, critical data domain inventory, and related governance artifacts.
• Serve as business owner for data governance tooling, including Microsoft Purview, partnering with IT on technical administration, architecture, metadata, cataloging, lineage, classification, and system integration needs.
• Develop data quality measures, governance scorecards, maturity assessments, and executive reporting to provide visibility into risks, adoption, trends, and business value.

Business Partnership, Change Management & Strategy

• Build strong partnerships with business and technology leaders to drive adoption, clarify expectations, and promote shared accountability for trusted enterprise data.
• Lead change…