Sr Director - Data Governance & Enablement (Data Governance)

Location: Memphis, TN with a hybrid work schedule; remote consideration may be available for qualified candidates located within the United States.

Company

hirify.global is a nonprofit organization supporting St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and its mission to cure childhood cancer.

What you will do

• Develop and own the enterprise data governance, enablement, privacy strategy, roadmap, maturity plan, policies, standards, decision rights, and escalation paths.
• Lead operational privacy across data collection, use, sharing, retention, disposition, systems, campaigns, analytics, AI data use, and third-party services.
• Establish practices for data ownership, quality, classification, metadata, lineage, integration, access, acceptable use, master and reference data, retention, and certification.
• Govern data used in reporting, dashboards, self-service analytics, experimentation, machine learning, generative AI, and emerging technologies without owning AI models or applications governance.
• Lead a team and federated community of data owners, product owners, stewards, analysts, and technology partners; provide training, playbooks, and change leadership.
• Partner with ITS and Product teams to embed governance into architecture and delivery while advancing automation for metadata, lineage, quality monitoring, policy enforcement, access review, retention, consent, and evidence collection.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in information management, data or computer science, analytics, business, risk, law, public policy, or a related field is preferred; equivalent education and experience may be considered.
• 10 or more years of progressively responsible experience across data governance, data management, privacy, risk, technology, or related disciplines, including enterprise-scale program leadership.
• At least five years of experience leading teams, operating models, or federated communities in a complex environment.
• Experience establishing data governance frameworks, policies, standards, decision rights, and controls and translating privacy and risk requirements into practical business and technology practices.
• Strong understanding of modern data ecosystems, metadata and catalog capabilities, data quality, lineage, cloud platforms, analytics delivery, and data requirements for machine learning and generative AI.
• Executive communication, facilitation, negotiation, change leadership, and the ability to influence without direct authority.
• Ability to connect governance and privacy investments to growth, efficiency, trust, risk reduction, and strategic outcomes.

Nice to have

• Experience leading integrated data governance, enablement, and privacy programs.
• Experience with enterprise data catalogs, business glossaries, lineage, data-quality monitoring, governance workflows, or privacy-management capabilities.
• Experience establishing controls for data used in analytics, machine learning, or generative AI.
• Relevant credentials in data management, privacy, security, risk, analytics, project management, or business process management.
• Experience in a mission-driven, fundraising, consumer, healthcare-adjacent, or highly regulated environment.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment with hybrid work in Memphis and possible remote consideration within the United States.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance plans.
• 401(k) retirement plan with a 7% employer contribution.
• Paid time off, maternity and paternity leave, infertility treatment, adoption assistance, education assistance, and enterprise learning and development.
• Equal employment opportunity workplace; unsolicited assistance from search firms is not accepted without an approved agreement.