Manager, Data Governance

At Curriculum Associates, we believe in the potential of every child and are changing the face of education technology with award-winning learning programs like i-Ready that serve a third of the nation’s K–8 students. For more than 50 years, our commitment to making classrooms better places, serving educators, and supporting accessible learning experiences for all students has driven the continuous improvement of our innovative programs. Our team of more than 2,500 employees is composed of lifelong learners who stand behind this mission, working tirelessly to serve the educational community with world-class programs and support every day.

We are looking for a Manager of Data Governance to establish, implement and scale a data governance framework that drives real business impact as part of our Data & Insights Center of Excellence (CoE). This role requires both hands-on execution and strategic leadership, ensuring governance policies and processes are embedded within data operations across the company. The ideal candidate has successfully led governance programs before and can influence stakeholders while driving adoption.
This role operates in an agile environment, collaborating closely with data engineering, analytics, and business teams across the U.S. and India. Success is measured by governance’s impact on data usability, trust, and accessibility, directly improving decision-making and operational efficiency.

Essential duties/responsibilities:

• Collaborate with stakeholders to develop and operationalize data governance policies, standards, processes and best practices in alignment with business goals.
• Implement data stewardship processes that integrate into agile workflows to support metadata management and data quality management, measurement, reporting and remediation
• Establish a data stewardship framework, empowering teams to take ownership of data quality.
• Engage with data governance council discussions, ensuring alignment across global teams.
• Implement and maintain data governance tools (Eg., Collibra, Alation, Informatica etc)
• Define and track success metrics that measure governance’s impact on end users, including improved data accessibility, decision-making, and operational efficiency.
• Manage workflows for data issue resolution, change management, and continuous improvement.
• Manage and mentor data stewards, ensuring consistency in data governance practices across the organization.
• Partner with data engineering to ensure governance policies are implemented in data pipelines and platforms.
• Support data analytics & BI teams to ensure governed data is trusted, accessible, and actionable.

Required job skills:
• Proven track record of executing and scaling data governance programs in agile environments.
• Strong expertise in data quality, metadata management, MDM, regulatory compliance, and best practices.
• Ability to drive adoption of governance practices, measure impact, and lead change management initiatives.
• Proven ability to influence stakeholders at all levels, ensuring governance priorities are aligned with business objectives.
Strong experience in documenting business requirements, business glossaries, data cataloging, data mapping, data quality
rules management and governance frameworks.
• Demonstrated ability to identify business process and data management gaps and drive improvements.
Experience collaborating with data engineering, analytics, infrastructure, and business teams in an agile setup, including
participation in sprint planning and governance integration.
• Ability to balance execution and leadership responsibilities, adapting to competing priorities while maintaining focus on
delivering results.

Minimum qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field such as Business Administration, Computer Science, or Data Analytics.
• 10+ years of experience in data management, or enterprise data teams.
• 7+ years of experience with data governance, data management, or enterprise data strategy.
5+ years of experience leading cross-functional collaboration and communicating with stakeholders across multiple business
lines.
• Experience with data governance tools (Eg., Collibra, Alation, Atacama, Informatica, etc).
• Industry certifications (e.g., CDMP/ DAMA DMBOK, or equivalent data governance certification) preferred.