Data Trust & AI Governance Lead

Uber; New York (NY); On-site; USD 185,000 - 205,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonuses

Equity

401(k) plan

Job summary

Uber is conducting a senior data governance leadership search to own Data Trust and Governance within the DI&S team of CAS. You will ensure data reliability, lineage, and semantic clarity to support AI-enabled analytics at scale.

You will partner with engineering, analytics, product, and operations to embed governance into data design and establish clear ownership and accountability for data quality and trust.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years in analytics-focused roles with data insights experience.
• Experience operationalizing core data governance functions at enterprise scale.
• Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field is required.

Responsibilities

• Establish and enforce data quality and trust standards.
• Govern canonical data foundation powering analytics and AI.
• Set observability, freshness, and reliability standards.
• Govern master data, metadata, and data semantics.
• Oversee metric definitions and data lineage for traceability.
• Ensure analytics- and AI-readiness of data standards.
• Define ownership, stewardship, and governance adoption.
• Embed governance into data design and modernization.

Skills

Analytics

Data governance

Python

SQL

R

Education

Bachelor's degree in Math, Economics, Statistics, CS, Engineering

Master's degree preferred

Tools

SQL tooling

Job description

About the Role

We are looking for a senior leader to own the Data Trust and Governance on Data Infrastructure and Strategy (DI&S) team within Uber’s Customer Advocacy Solutions (CAS) organization. This role is critical to ensuring that our customer support data remains reliable, consistent, trusted, and fit for purpose as we scale support operations, modernize the data platform, and expand AI-driven fully self-service.

The person in this role will establish and drive governance standards across data quality, observability, lineage, metadata, metric definitions, semantic clarity, and full data context. They will work closely with engineering, analytics, product, operations, science and AI stakeholders to ensure customer support data is correct, aggregated and explainable for human users, while also being connected, contextual, timely, and grounded for AI systems.

This is a high-impact data leadership role at the intersection of product, engineering and AI. Success in this role requires building trust in data for both traditional governance outcomes and the next generation of agentic AI analytics readiness.

What You Will Do:

1. Data Quality & Trust: Establish and enforce high data quality and trust standards, making quality the default expectation and measurably proven through data, not assumed.
2. Analytics & AI Data Foundation: Govern the shared canonical data foundation powering trusted analytics and AI.
3. Data Observability: Establish observability, freshness, and reliability standards with effective system controls to proactively detect issues and consistently meet defined data contract and SLAs.
4. Master Data & Semantics: Govern master data, metadata, business definitions, semantics, context and ontology for consistent human and AI consumption.
5. Metrics & Lineage: Govern metric definitions, lineage, and source traceability so root-cause analysis and drill-down from reported metrics to underlying facts are available by default.
6. AI Readiness: Establish and enforce analytics- and AI-ready data standards for reliable agentic AI and analytics.
7. Governance & Adoption: Establish clear ownership, stewardship, accountability, and adoption of governance standards.
8. Shift-Left Governance: Embed governance, quality, observability, and AI-readiness requirements into data design and modernization.

Basic Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of experience in an analytics-focused role with experience in extracting insights from data and summarizing key findings and takeaways
• Bachelors Degree in Math, Economics, Statistics, Computer Science, Engineering or related quantitative fields
• Experience establishing and operationalizing at least two of the core data governance functions: data quality, data observability, data lineage or metadata management, master data management and metrics governance at enterprise level.

Preferred Qualifications

• Masters Degree in Math, Economics, Statistics, Computer Science, Engineering or related quantitative fields
• Experience establishing data governance and trust for AI/ML and agentic AI, including standards for machine-consumable, contextual, grounded, and evaluation data.
• Experience with canonical data modeling, event and state modeling, identity resolution, and end-to-end journey data supporting both analytics and AI.
• Experience embedding shift-left governance into large-scale data modernization, cloud platforms, source instrumentation, and data engineering practices.
• Practical understanding of LLMs, AI agents, retrieval, copilots, and AI-driven workflows, particularly the data foundations required to make them reliable.
• Experience applying modern data governance in customer support or similarly complex operational domains, where data connects customer journeys, automation, human workflows, and business outcomes.
• Experience working knowledge of metadata, master data, business semantics, metric governance, data lineage, and source traceability.
• Experience leading cross-functional data governance programs, establish ownership and accountability, and communicate effectively with technical, business, and executive stakeholders.
• Experience establishing and operationalizing data quality, trust, observability, data SLAs, issue management, and governance controls at scale.
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, R, and SQL with proven ability to write and understand complex queries.

You may be eligible for bonuses, equity, and other compensation, as well as a range of benefits. Explore our benefits.

Offices remain key to collaboration and Uber's culture. Unless approved for full remote work, employees must spend at least 50% of their time in-office. Some roles, like those at greenlight hubs, require full-time in-office presence. Ask your Recruiter for details about this role's requirements.

Uber is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing this form.

For New York City, NY-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD $185,000 per year - USD $205,000 per year.

For San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD $185,000 per year - USD $205,000 per year.

For Sunnyvale, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD $185,000 per year - USD $205,000 per year.

For all US locations, you will be eligible to participate in Uber's bonus program, and may be offered an equity award & other types of comp. All full-time employees are eligible to participate in a 401(k) plan. You will also be eligible for various benefits.