Head of Data Governance & Platform Trust (Remote)

LawnStarter Inc.; México; Hybrid; MXN 1,412,000 - 2,259,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote

Flexible PTO

Job summary

LawnStarter is seeking a hands-on Analytics Governance lead to own data quality, lineage, and the semantic layer on a growing platform. You’ll partner with product, marketing, ops, and finance to set priorities, define standards, and scale governance as the company migrates to Lightdash.

In this remote, autonomy-first role you’ll build checks, enforce data contracts, and lay groundwork for a Lead Analytics Engineer; you’ll shape the data roadmap and guardrails that keep dashboards trustworthy

Qualifications

• Governance is your craft and you enjoy building trustworthy data systems.
• You are a hands-on manager who writes SQL, tunes pipelines, and configures permissions.
• You operate with a product mindset, turning stakeholder asks into a prioritized plan.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the data roadmap, balancing stakeholder needs against platform health.
• Ensure data quality and freshness across source data, pipelines, and reports.
• Maintain data lineage, impact analysis, and data contracts with engineering.
• Administer Lightdash, workspace structure, permissions, and rollout.
• Extend the semantic layer definitions and mappings as the system scales.
• Govern the Segment event catalog and drift detection as tracking grows.

Skills

Governance

AI-native

Hands-on manager

Product minded

Automation-first

Enforcer

Tools

Redshift

dbt

Airflow

Lightdash

Segment

Brain

Job description

LawnStarter is seeking a hands-on Analytics Governance lead to own data quality, lineage, and the semantic layer on a growing platform. You’ll partner with product, marketing, ops, and finance to set priorities, define standards, and scale governance as the company migrates to Lightdash.

In this remote, autonomy-first role you’ll build checks, enforce data contracts, and lay groundwork for a Lead Analytics Engineer; you’ll shape the data roadmap and guardrails that keep dashboards trustworthy