Data & AI Governance Leader — Enterprise-Scale

Michels Corporation; Milwaukee (WI); On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Michels Corporation in Milwaukee is seeking a Staff Data & AI Governance Manager to help build the enterprise governance function from the ground up. As a founding member of the Enterprise Intelligence team, you will shape policies, standards, operating routines, and accountability to ensure data is trusted, discoverable, and usable across the business.

This role starts hands-on, laying groundwork that lets Michels move quickly on experimentation while applying strong oversight where durability,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 7+ years in data governance or related discipline at enterprise scale.
• Familiar with modern data platforms and governance tooling.

Responsibilities

• Build and operationalize Michels' data and AI governance framework.
• Establish foundational data governance across ownership, stewardship, quality, metadata, lineage, classification, and retention.
• Partner with business, operations, and IT teams to build shared ownership of governance across data and AI work.
• Create practical AI governance for use-case intake, risk classification, responsible AI review, vendor and embedded AI oversight, and monitoring.
• Facilitate the governance forums, stewardship routines, and cross-functional decisions that clarify accountability and make governance actionable.
• Develop metrics and reporting that give leadership visibility into data quality, governance maturity, AI adoption, and emerging risks.
• Grow the function over time, evolving from hands-on builder into the leader of future governance capabilities, communities, and team.

Skills

Data governance

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

Risk management

AI governance

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Tools

Microsoft Fabric

Databricks

Snowflake

Collibra

Alation

Atlan

Job description

Michels Corporation in Milwaukee is seeking a Staff Data & AI Governance Manager to help build the enterprise governance function from the ground up. As a founding member of the Enterprise Intelligence team, you will shape policies, standards, operating routines, and accountability to ensure data is trusted, discoverable, and usable across the business.

This role starts hands-on, laying groundwork that lets Michels move quickly on experimentation while applying strong oversight where durability,