Data Governance Lead (London, U.K.)

Blab; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 57,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

20 vacation days + holidays

Medical and dental insurance

Life insurance

Income protection

Remote-first workplace

Flexible work environment

Job summary

B Lab in London is hiring a Data Governance Lead within the Data & ML Platforms pillar. You will own data standards, definitions, and sensitivity classifications while ensuring the platform and analytics comply with laws and internal policy.

You’ll help build data literacy and partner with engineers to align models and pipelines to standards. This remote-first role operates from the London hub; residency in the UK is required at start, with commuting distance to the office.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in data modeling or data governance roles.
• Experience establishing data standards, definitions and sensitivity classifications.
• Ability to audit and advise on governance implementations using SQL and data models.
• Experience communicating technical data concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Familiarity with data-related legal and regulatory requirements.

Responsibilities

• Own Data Standards & Definitions: establish and maintain standards, definitions, and sensitivity classifications.
• Ensure Compliance: keep data platform and analytics practices compliant with laws and policy.
• Drive Standards Adoption: ensure data standards are used across pillars.
• Build Data Literacy: create training and documentation for widespread adoption.
• Partner with Platform Peers to ensure models/pipelines are built to standard.
• Support Pillar 2 & 3 to apply standards consistently.
• Evaluate Governance Tooling and track literacy impact.

Skills

SQL

Data governance

Data literacy

Documentation

Cross-team collaboration

English fluency

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT or related

Tools

Data cataloging tools

Job description

Please Note: B Lab is not working with a third party to fill this role an no part of our process requires applicants to pay fees. Applicants should only use our job board to submit an application, and will interact directly with our team during this process.

This is a Full-Time Role (40 hours per week, 5 days per week) with no option for part-time work. While this is a remote-first opportunity, the candidate filling this role must be a resident of the Netherlands, the U.K. or Brazil at the start of employment. Additionally, they must be within commuting distance of our office in Amsterdam, London, or São Paulo.

About the Role

The Data & AI team is responsible for building B Lab's data platform, delivering on business priorities, and scaling AI adoption across the organization. The team reports directly to the CTDO. The Data & ML Platforms team owns the data platform, ML infrastructure, and the foundational data models the rest of the Data & AI team depends on — the supply-side capability layer that Business & Data Priorities and AI Enablement build on.

As the Data Governance Lead on the Data & ML Platforms pillar, you own data standards, definitions, and sensitivity classification across B Lab's data platform, and ensure the platform and its analytics comply with relevant laws and documentation requirements. Beyond governance, you play a growing role in building data literacy across the organization — helping teams understand and trust the data available to them, and ensuring definitions and standards are actually adopted, not just documented. You work closely with the Senior Analytics Engineer and Data Engineer to make sure new models and pipelines are built to standard from the start.

Core Responsibilities

Data Standards & Governance (35%):

• Own Data Standards & Definitions: Establish and maintain the organization's data standards, definitions, and sensitivity classifications.
• Ensure Compliance: Keep the data platform and analytics practices compliant with relevant laws and internal policy.

Data Literacy & Adoption (30%):

• Drive Standards Adoption: Work across pillars to ensure data standards are actually used, not just documented.
• Build Data Literacy: Develop training, documentation, and other enablement so teams across B Lab can confidently interpret and trust the data available to them.

Cross-Pillar Partnership (25%):

• Partner with Platform Peers: Work with the Senior Analytics Engineer and Data Engineer to ensure new models and pipelines are built to standard.
• Support Pillar 2 & 3: Help Network Priorities, Regional Enablement, and AI Enablement apply data standards consistently in their work.

Strategic Innovation & Business Impact (10%):

• Evaluate Governance Tooling: Explore and pilot new tools or approaches for data cataloging, lineage, and standards enforcement.
• Quantify Literacy Impact: Track and articulate how improved data literacy and standards adoption reduce rework and improve decision quality across teams.

Major Objectives/Project for the role in the first 6-12 months

• Create concepts for data classification (public, private, sensitive, etc)
• Apply concepts to our data
• Enable network to understand concepts and how to interact with them
• Enable the Data Platform to be more aligned with regulatory requirements and laws

About You

• Overall 3+ years of experience in data modeling and/or data governance roles
• SQL/Data Fluency: Working knowledge of SQL and data models sufficient to audit and advise on governance implementation.
• Data Governance: Experience establishing and maintaining data standards, definitions, and sensitivity/classification frameworks.
• Data Literacy & Enablement: Experience communicating technical data concepts to non-technical stakeholders and driving adoption of standards across teams.
• Compliance Knowledge: Familiarity with data-related legal and regulatory requirements relevant to the organization's data platform and analytics.
• Documentation: Strong written communication skills; comfort building and maintaining clear, discoverable documentation.
• Cross-Team Collaboration: Ability to influence without direct authority across the Data & AI department.
• Excellent communication skills and comfort with facilitating live and asynchronous trainings or workshops on data governance
• A BA/BS in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field preferred
• Fluent in English

Compensation Details

B Lab has a compensation plan that includes:

• An annual salary in the range of £57,100 - £70,000 based on skills and experience
• In your first year, you’ll start with 20 vacation days in addition to national & bank holidays; this increases to 25 days after your third anniversary
• Additional time off during org- wide closures when the entire organization is closed (not including holidays)
• After your first year of employment - paid time off for community service, 40 hours of paid time off for professional development, and a professional development budget (we assess this PD budget annually)
• Additional floating holidays and personal days (prorated to start date)
• Medical and dental supplemental insurance for the employee through BUPA
• Life insurance benefit
• Income protection insurance
• Statutory pension
• Global travel insurance
• A remote-first workplace
• A flexible work environment with the ability to plan your work week around your personal commitments

This is a Full-Time Role (40 hours per week, 5DWW) with no option for part-time work.

This job ad is for our London, UK hub. While this is a remote-first opportunity, the candidate filling this role must hold work authorization to work in the Netherlands without any time limitations or any other restrictions, and they must be a resident of the U.K. at the start of employment. Additionally, they must be within commuting distance of our office in London. This role is not eligibleto be remote from other countries in Europe. If you wish to be based in one of our other locations listed for this role, submit your application through the job ad that best fits with where you hold residency and work authorization.

About B Lab

B Lab™ is the nonprofit behind Certified B Corporations™, a community of businesses that meet verified social, environmental, and governance standards. Together, our movement is working towards a more inclusive, equitable, and fair economic system.

Our history B Lab began in 2006 with the idea that a different kind of economy was not only possible — it was necessary. Our founders Andrew Kassoy, Bart Houlahan, and Jay Coen Gilbert believed there was a better way to do business: better for workers, better for communities, and better for the planet.When our movement’s first 81 Founding BCorps signed the Declaration of Interdependence in 2007, they were not just proposing a better way of doing business. They were proposing a different definition altogether.

What we’ve achieved B Lab became known for certifying B Corporations™, companies that meet verified standards of social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency. But we do much more than that. We help mobilize a global community of businesses committed to collective action on society’s most critical challenges. In 2010, B Lab was part of successfully drafting and passing benefit corporation in Maryland, the first U.S. state to do so. This created a legal framework that allows companies to keep their values of care and community, not just shareholder value, at the forefront. Today, benefit corporation legislation is active in 52 jurisdictions around the world.

Our future In 2024, leaders from across the network agreed to evolve into a more integrated organization that embodies interdependence. This next iteration of our global network will balance global coherence with local agency to achieve our vision of economic systems change. We are now building this future together.