Data Strategy And Governance Director

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About This Role:

We are seeking a Data Strategy And Governance Director to be a critical member of Forresters go-to-market operations working in conjunction with finance and IT. The Data Strategy And Governance Director will lead Forresters operational data strategy across product marketing sales and customer success. The role will be accountable for overall data strategy within the marketing and sales databases and related systems executing initiatives to improve data quality unification accessibility and enablement. The role requires a deep understanding of how data supports product marketing sales and customer success processes. This person will also play a central role in documenting the business context layer necessary to prepare data for advanced AI use cases within Forrester to better serve our addition the Data Strategy And Governance Director will oversee the daily maintenance of operational data define and enforce data governance policies as a key member of the data governance committee and ensure data consumers can readily access high-quality data.

Job Description:

The Data Strategy And Governance Director is expected to:

• Define Forrestersoperational data strategy.
• Evaluate and identify data quality integrity and accessibility issues and coordinate and implement corrections across company systems and channels including process improvement access management and ongoing data enablement.
• Evaluate and identify data privacy security and regulatory issues and implement corrections across company systems and channels to support company privacy policies.
• Coordinate and maintain ongoing/regular relationships communication and processes with subject matter experts and leads across lines of businesses as well as finance technology analytics legal and compliance and security and operations (SecOps) teams to create design apply and manage data policies.
• Establish ongoing coordination across functions particularly technology teams to ensure visibility into changes to data and architecture.
• Create and communicate the measurement plan for data management including database readiness metrics and metrics that capture the impact of database readiness on downstream product marketing sales and customer success processes.
• Support the documentation cleansing and construction of the data layer and marketing and sales business context layer necessary to support LLM model development.
• Define the data acquisition strategy to ensure that desired levels of breadth and quality are achieved.
• Provide subject matter expertise for AI data and business context development and internal quality control.

Job Requirements:

• At least 10 years experience including a director-level or above position in B2B data management leadership revenue operations go-to-market operations marketing and sales analytics and/or project management.
• Proven experience in driving data quality initiatives unifying data from disparate systems and finding new ways to provide data consumers easy access to the information they need.
• Experience in aligning data with marketing and sales business processes.
• Experience in designing data governance processes for data management by stewards custodians IT and business data consumers.
• Experience in cleansing data as well as designing and executing data unification strategies.
• Experience with LLMs MAP CRM MDM/CDP web BI data warehouse CPQ revenue orchestration and sales performance management systems.
• Creative problem-solving skills with high-level attention to detail.
• The ability to work cross-functionally as well as across geographies and cultures.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills: able to explain complex data management and data governance concepts to both technical and nontechnical stakeholders audiences and executive team members.
• Strong project management skills.
• Strong networking and stakeholder management skills.
• The ability to work with business owners (data enablers) and data consumers to define data and reporting requirements.
• Understanding of roadmap development and prioritization.
• Budget management.
• Data storytelling.
• Comfortable working in a cross-functional and matrixed environment.

Please note that the base salary range indicated here is inclusive of all applicable US geographies listed in this requisition. This salary range is based upon the position as described in the job listing. The offered compensation may vary within this range and is dependent upon the successful candidates primary work location experience training education and credentials.

Base salary range: $130000 - $212000

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