Director, Data Platform & Governance

Hungryroot; United States; Remote; USD 200,000 - 215,000; Full time

Job summary

Hungryroot is seeking a Director of Data Platform & Governance to lead its centralized data function. This key role involves ensuring data integrity and accessibility, managing data governance programs, and collaborating across departments to enhance data-driven decision making while supporting a remote-first work environment.

Benefits

Equity

Unlimited vacation policy

Universal paid parental leave

Comprehensive health, vision, dental, and life insurance

Wellbeing benefits

401k with match

Work from home stipend

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in data engineering or related roles.
• 3+ years of people management experience.
• Experience with enterprise data platforms.

Responsibilities

• Implement data governance and compliance controls.
• Own BI tool end to end and empower self-service analytics.
• Build scalable data infrastructure and oversee data engineering.

Skills

Data Engineering

Data Governance

Business Intelligence

Project Management

Cloud Platforms

Data Modeling

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in relevant field

Tools

Databricks

Job description

At Hungryroot, we understand that food is deeply personal—it fuels our bodies and minds, impacting how we feel and function every day. Yet, the current food system makes it difficult to make healthy, enjoyable choices. With busy lifestyles and traditional grocery experiences that leave us overwhelmed, many struggle to find balance. Hungryroot is changing that through a seamless digital experience designed to make healthy eating effortless. At Hungryroot, we’re building the most consumer-centric food and wellness company to ever exist, empowering people to eat healthier, feel better, and make food choices that truly support their well-being.

We are a distributed team built on top talent from over 28 states across the U.S. While we have a headquarters in New York City, we support employees working from wherever they are based. We believe in fostering team connection and collaboration across all of ourOur cutting-edge AI technology, SmartCart, powers a personalized meal planning and grocery shopping experience that is tailored to each customer’s unique preferences, dietary needs, budget, and goals. By recommending the right groceries and recipes, SmartCart saves hours of meal prep and shopping time, reduces stress, and ensures that customers always have fresh, nutritious options on hand. With an intuitive, easy-to-use digital platform, we bring variety and convenience to the forefront, helping customers discover new foods they love, while minimizing waste and saving money. employees' locations. Expect to attend regular team building events and an annual company retreat. Expect to be treated like an owner who cares about our common goal, not someone who has to clock in and out of work.

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Director of Data Platform & Governance to lead Hungryroot’s centralized data function, responsible for data engineering, data governance, and business intelligence infrastructure. This role will own the foundation that enables data-driven decision making across the organization, ensuring data integrity, accessibility, and security while building scalable platforms for analytics consumption.

Reporting to the CFO, this position represents a critical component of our consolidated analytics strategy, working in close partnership with our Insights and Finance teams to deliver trusted data products that drive business value and decision making.

Responsibilities

• Implement and enforce a centralized data dictionary and metric ownership model for new and existing metrics, ensuring business team alignment
• Create data access permissions, frameworks and compliance controls
• Formalize data ownership across teams to ensure accountability

Drive BI Platform Ownership and Self-Service Analytics:

• Own BI tool (current or replacement) end to end including dashboarding strategy, architecture, governance, and permissions
• Standardize dashboard/report design and create certified dashboards, while eliminating duplicative and non-conforming versions
• Empower analyst teams and business users via managed self-service tools

Build and Maintain Scalable Data Infrastructure:

• Oversee data engineering, platforms and integration processes
• Own Databricks and data aggregation
• Create single source of truth for dashboards and metrics
• Ensure clear data lineage and ownership
• Ensure availability, performance, and security of data assets

Enable Organizational Alignment and Strategic Partnership:

• Serve as connected foundation for Insights, Product, Finance, and other business teams
• Extend best practices to embedded and specialized Analytics functions across the org
• Support experimentation and robust product analytics

Cross-Functional Collaboration:

• Partner closely with Insights team to understand analytical requirements and deliver appropriate data products
• Partner and align with Data Science team on AI and ML-driven company products and strategies
• Work with business units to understand data needs and translate requirements into technical solutions
• Collaborate with IT and cybersecurity teams on broader infrastructure and security matters
• Participate in cross-functional projects requiring data integration or platform changes

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in data engineering, data platform management, or related technical roles
• 3+ years of people management experience, including leading technical teams
• Proven track record of building and scaling enterprise data platforms
• Experience implementing data governance programs in complex organizations, with public company experience a plus
• Ability to deeply understand business strategy and drivers and translate business requirements into technical solutions
• Proficiency with cloud platforms and their respective data services
• Familiarity with data modeling, data architecture principles, and metadata management
• Experience working in a B2C environment preferred
• Strong project management and organizational skills
• Excellent communication and track record of driving change with both technical and business stakeholders
• Remote-first: work from home, work from our NYC office, work from anywhere in the U.S. - you decide!
• Equity
• Unlimited vacation policy
• Universal paid parental leave
• Comprehensive health, vision, dental, and life insurance
• Wellbeing benefits including One Medical, Spring Health, LiveHealth, Rightway care concierge, and more
• 401k with match
• A work from home stipend to support your initial home-office setup

Expected Pay Range
$200,000 - $215,000

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Our mission to help make healthy eating easy, accessible, and joyful is better served by a diverse workplace. We are a proud Equal Opportunity Employer committed to building an inclusive workplace. We have zero-tolerance for harassment or discrimination. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected class.

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