Global Director of Data & AI Governance and Foundations

Ready for a challenge? Then Just Eat  might be the place for you. We’re a leading global online delivery platform, and our vision is to empower everyday convenience.
Ready for a challenge? Then Just Eat  might be the place for you. We’re a leading global online delivery platform, and our vision is to empower everyday convenience. Whether it’s a Friday-night feast, a post-gym poke bowl, or grabbing some groceries, our tech platform connects tens of millions of customers with hundreds of thousands of restaurant, grocery and convenience partners across the globe.

Data is at the heart of how Just Eat  (JET) serves customers, supports partners and drives business decisions. As we continue to evolve our data and AI capabilities, we’re looking for a Global Director of Data Foundations & Governance to shape how data is governed, trusted and used responsibly across our global organisation. Reporting directly to the VP Data & Analytics, you’ll lead our enterprise-wide data and AI governance strategy, data product standards and data strategy and change portfolio.

Working closely with Technology, Product, Legal, Info Sec and business leaders, you’ll define the frameworks and standards that enable teams to innovate with confidence, while ensuring our data and AI practices remain secure, high-quality and compliant. This is a critical leadership role where you’ll set the direction for data governance across JET’s markets and domains, partnering with our Platform team to translate standards into scalable solutions.

We’re looking for someone who can live our behaviours of Lead, Deliver and Care, challenge the status quo and bring people together to create lasting business impact.

• Set the direction – Define and evolve JET’s enterprise data and AI governance strategy, establishing clear frameworks, standards and controls that enable trusted, responsible innovation across the business.
• Lead through collaboration – Partner with Technology, Product, Legal, Info Sec and business leaders to embed governance into platforms, products and operational processes, building shared accountability across teams and markets.
• Champion responsible AI – Establish AI governance frameworks covering model risk, training data quality, bias, explainability, lineage and Generative AI, ensuring AI is used safely, ethically and responsibly.
• Raise the bar on data quality – Define enterprise-wide data quality standards, stewardship practices and monitoring requirements so that data used for business decisions and AI systems is accurate, complete and trusted.
• Build for reuse – Establish clear standards for data products, ownership, lifecycle management and data contracts, enabling teams to share trusted, consistent data while reducing duplication across domains.
• Shape our data strategy – Work with senior leadership to prioritise data initiatives based on business value, evolve our operating model and measure the return on our data investments.
• Turn standards into action – Define the requirements for governance tooling, metadata management, data lineage and automated controls, partnering with the Platform team to determine what good looks like and enable scalable implementation.
• Drive adoption and change – Lead initiatives that embed data-driven behaviours across JET, building a strong data community and developing data literacy and capabilities across different teams and markets.
• Protect our data ecosystem – Establish policies and standards that support regulatory compliance, including GDPR, CCPA and the EU AI Act, while defining governance expectations for third-party data providers and AI vendors.
• Lead and develop your team – Build a high-performing team with a culture…