About the role
<div class="content-intro"><p><strong><u>Application and Interview Impersonation Notice</u>:&nbsp; </strong>Impersonating another individual when applying for employment, and/or participating in an interview process to assist another individual in obtaining employment, with Precisely Software Incorporated (“Precisely”) is unlawful. &nbsp;If Precisely identifies such fraudulent conduct, then as applicable and to the extent permitted by law, the application will be rejected, an offer (if made) will be rescinded, or the employment will be terminated, and legal action may be taken against the impersonators.</p> <p>Precisely is the leader in data integrity. We empower businesses to make more confident decisions based on trusted data through a unique combination of software, data enrichment products and strategic services. What does this mean to you? For starters, it means joining a company focused on delivering outstanding innovation and support that helps customers increase revenue, lower costs and reduce risk. In fact, Precisely powers better decisions for more than 12,000 global organizations, including 95 of the Fortune 100. Precisely's 2500 employees are unified by four company core values that are central to
who we are and how we operate: Openness, Determination, Individuality, and Collaboration. We are committed to career development for our employees and offer opportunities for growth, learning and building community. With a "work from anywhere" culture, we celebrate diversity in a distributed environment with a presence in 30 countries as well as 20 offices in over 5 continents. Learn more about why it's an exciting time to join Precisely!</p> <p>Precisely is an AI-first organization. All employees are expected to demonstrate proficiency in applying AI tools to accelerate their work, improve output quality, and eliminate low-value tasks. Candidates should be comfortable using generative AI tools (e.g., Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT) in their day-to-day workflows, able to evaluate AI-generated outputs critically, and open to continuously adopting new AI capabilities as they emerge.</p></div><p><strong>Overview:</strong></p> <p>This is an enterprise governance leadership role focused on building the operating model, policies, standards, accountability, and cross-company collaboration needed to manage data as a shared business asset. You will lead the Data Governance Office, shape the agenda for the Data Governance Council, and coordinate data owners and stewards across business and technology functions. Your mandate is to create governance that enables execution, improves trust, and resolves cross-functional data issues without adding unnecessary friction. While this is not a hands-on engineering role, you must have sufficient technical depth to evaluate data architectures, challenge implementation decisions, review data-quality controls, and partner credibly with Data Engineering, Enterprise Applications, Analytics, and Governance teams.&nbsp; This role is enterprise-facing and&nbsp;operating-model led, with enough technical depth to ensure governance is implemented rather than merely documented. The ideal candidate is a strategic operator who can create alignment across functions, challenge solution designs constructively, and turn governance forums into a reliable mechanism for execution.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>What you will do:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Own the enterprise data governance strategy, charter, policy framework,&nbsp;standards&nbsp;library, decision rights, and multi-year roadmap.&nbsp;</li> <li>Lead the Data Governance Office as the operational center for cross-domain planning, issue triage, policy implementation, KPI monitoring, and escalation.&nbsp;</li> <li>Shape agendas and decision materials for the Data Governance Council, bringing forward cross-company priorities, policy approvals, exceptions, risks, and investment decisions.&nbsp;</li> <li>Build and sustain the network of executive data owners, business data stewards, operational data stewards, and technical data stewards across the organization.&nbsp;</li> <li>Define stewardship roles, RACI models, meeting cadences, escalation paths, service expectations, and evidence