Senior Director (Data & AI Governance)

Location: US - Foster City, CA; at least 3 days per week in the office. Travel required 5–10% of the time.

Salary: $236,200–$413,700 USD per year, with potential bonus and equity eligibility.

Company

hirify.global is a global payments technology company facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and governments in more than 200 countries and territories.

What you will do

• Define, architect, and execute the global Data/AI management and governance platform strategy.
• Set the vision for data quality, metadata, context layers, access rights, and consent management.
• Lead product managers, data analysts, and process managers delivering the target architecture for merchant data.
• Collaborate with senior leaders across product, marketing, data science, data engineering, technology, and other business functions.
• Advance technical approaches including agentic solutions, data quality measurement, and product-led prioritization.
• Drive innovation, data integrity, and efficient data utilization across the enterprise.

Requirements

• 12+ years of work experience with a bachelor’s degree, 10+ years with an advanced degree, or 5+ years with a PhD.
• Experience leading data management functions and related teams, including data engineers or data scientists.
• Strong understanding of data strategy, data governance, data management, data quality, and data architecture.
• Experience managing large, global, distributed teams and delivering business outcomes.
• Strong analytical, communication, presentation, stakeholder management, and team leadership skills.
• Experience with data management and engineering tools and methodologies, including Apache Spark, Postman, Artifactory, Python, Scikit Learn, Pandas, and GitHub.

Nice to have

• Experience in payments, lending, financial services, or consulting.
• Master’s or PhD in computer science, statistics, finance, economics, or a related analytical field.
• At least 1 year of experience with cloud technologies.

Culture & Benefits

• Office-based work with department-dependent working hours.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• 401(k), FSA/HSA, life insurance, paid time off, and wellness program.
• Potential bonus, equity, and sales incentive eligibility where applicable.