The Role:

The Data Governance Lead will lead and support Newsela’s Data Governance (DG) initiative by capturing, compiling, and documenting DG policies, best practices and recommendations. You will assist in developing metadata standards to ensure accuracy and consistency. You will create DG and Data Quality KPIs, document workflow and lineage to determine change impact, control DG project scope, goals and objectives and assist in building and maintaining centralized data inventories, dictionaries, and data flows as it relates to DG. You will also take a hands-on approach to collaborating across analysts and business professionals. 

Why You’ll Love This Role: 

Leading the Data Governance Program for a mission-based company, growing 50% year over year, your work will directly help Newsela build an efficient, effective data organization. This is a rare opportunity to make an impact on how Newsela thinks about data during a critical time in the company’s evolution. You will work closely with the Director of Data Warehouse and other key stakeholders to define the most critical enterprise-wide Data Governance and Data Quality KPIs. Using cutting-edge cloud technology, your work will optimize the time to market and quality of data insights, and will serve as the backbone of business intelligence and decision-making for Sales, Marketing, Product, and Customer Success. You will be joining the Data team as it doubles in size over the next year, and will help build the foundation for a product that transforms education through reading engagement. 

Why We’ll Love You: 

You have 3+ years demonstrated success in leading data governance, Master Data Management (MDM) and data quality programs/projects in a complex environment with multiple operational systems and constituents You’re passionate about data governance and quality. You have experience defining data governance, MDM and data quality KPIs. You are a curious learner who enjoys understanding operational and data warehouse workflows and challenges, in addition to documenting and enforcing best practices. You have the innate ability to understand Sales, Marketing, Product, Clickstream data to deliver actionable insights. You do all this, while also contributing to an engaging data team culture.

About Newsela:

Newsela is an Instructional Content Platform that combines engaging, leveled content with integrated formative assessments and insights to supercharge engagement and learning in every subject. Students and teachers use Newsela to find digital content from 100+ of the best sources—from National Geographic to NASA, Biography.com to Encyclopedia Britannica, the Washington Post to the Wichita Eagle. Content is instructionalized to meet students where they are, with interactive tools and analytics to take them where they want to go. Newsela has become an essential solution for schools and districts, with a presence in over 90% of U.S. K-12 schools. Newsela is the content platform for the connected classroom.