Director, Enterprise Data Governance Office (AI)

Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States

Salary: $130,200–$241,800 base salary per year, plus eligibility for a discretionary annual bonus.

Company

hirify.global provides business travel services, with data spanning booking, ticketing, servicing, exchanges, refunds, invoicing, suppliers, and settlement across multiple platforms and brands.

What you will do

• Develop and execute the enterprise data governance roadmap, operating rhythms, measurable outcomes, and accountability mechanisms.
• Build the enterprise data domain model and establish governance bodies, forums, owner roles, steward roles, decision rights, and accountability.
• Define governance scope, priorities, strategic recommendations, resource tradeoffs, policies, and supporting standards.
• Lead audit preparation through control design, evidence management, remediation tracking, and collaboration with internal and external auditors.
• Establish definitions, taxonomies, standards, and data contracts for booking, ticketing, servicing, invoicing, and supplier data across systems, brands, and client contexts.
• Lead governance for multi-brand and multi-platform ecosystems, acquisitions, integrations, and generative and agentic AI data trustworthiness, including ownership, lineage, metadata, and traceability.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in data governance, data management, or related disciplines, including 5+ years leading teams or programs at manager or director level.
• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Information Systems, Data Management, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• Demonstrated success standing up and scaling enterprise data governance programs, including operating models, governance bodies, policies, standards, and owner/steward accountability in complex, multi-system environments.
• Proven experience authoring and operationalizing policies and standards that have withstood internal and external audit scrutiny.
• Hands-on experience governing ontology-governed content layers for enterprise AI, including business ontologies, knowledge models, or semantic layers.
• Technical proficiency with governance platforms such as Alation or Collibra, and familiarity with data quality and observability tools such as Ataccama, including lineage, glossary, and stewardship workflows.
• Ability to align and influence leaders across Technology, Legal, Privacy, Risk & Compliance, Information Security, and business units without direct authority.
• Strong ability to communicate governance strategy, risks, and recommendations to senior leaders and auditors in business-focused language.
• Experience governing data across merged, acquired, or multi-brand, multi-platform environments.

Nice to have

• Professional credentials such as CDMP.
• Experience in travel, transportation, or other data-intensive industries.
• Familiarity with travel data domains, cloud platforms such as Snowflake, data contracts, and metrics governance.

Culture & Benefits

• Inclusive and collaborative culture with opportunities to contribute to the business travel industry.
• Health and welfare insurance, retirement programs, parental leave, adoption assistance, and wellbeing resources.
• Travel deals on flights, hotels, cruises, and car rentals.
• Access to more than 20,000 learning courses, leadership courses, and internal career opportunities.
• Inclusion groups supporting shared identities and initiatives.