VP - Data Governance & Strategy

The Opportunity
The VP of Data Governance & Strategy is a senior leadership role within Ookla’s Chief Data & Analytics Office responsible for defining and operationalizing the enterprise data governance strategy, policies, standards, and data ownership frameworks that enable trusted, high-quality, secure, and compliant data across Ookla. This role reports directly to the CDAO.
This leader will establish the governance vision, operating model, and cross-functional practices that ensure Ookla’s data is discoverable, well-defined, properly owned, and fit for purpose. Working across product, engineering, analytics, legal, compliance, and business teams, the role will drive a culture of data accountability, data literacy, and responsible data use aligned to enterprise strategy and regulatory expectations.
This position operates in a hybrid work environment and includes approximately 25% travel to support stakeholder engagement, governance program delivery, data quality initiatives, and team collaboration.
Key Responsibilities
Define and lead Ookla’s enterprise data governance strategy, operating model, policies, standards, and multi-year roadmap.
Establish and operationalize data ownership, data stewardship, and accountability frameworks across all data domains.
Oversee enterprise data quality programs, including data quality rules, monitoring, observability, lineage, and remediation.
Lead data security and privacy governance, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements and enterprise data protection standards.
Build and run the enterprise data catalog, metadata management practices, and data discovery capabilities.
Drive data literacy, data enablement, and change management programs to build a data-fluent, governance-aware organization.
Partner with legal, compliance, engineering, product, analytics, and CDAO leadership to embed governance into data platforms, pipelines, and workflows.
Build, mentor, and develop a high-performing data governance, quality, security, and enablement organization.
Job Qualifications
Required Knowledge, Skills and Attributes