Head of Data Governance & Field Operations

chaosindustries; El Segundo (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

CHAOS Industries in El Segundo, CA seeks a Manager of Data Management and Operations to own the end-to-end data lifecycle. You will define data definitions, govern data, and ensure secure, auditable access for engineering, AI, test, and business teams.

This is a technical leadership role spanning data governance, data-platform coordination, and test operations. You will build durable systems and teams while remaining close to field execution to understand data quality and collection challenges.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience across data engineering, data platforms, data governance, analytics infrastructure, test data, or similarly complex technical environments, including significant team leadership.

Responsibilities

• Establish company-wide governance for data definitions, ownership, quality, lineage, retention, and calculation change management.
• Create authoritative, documented analytical datasets and shared definitions so teams can work from consistent data and metrics.
• Work with the Foundry engineering team to ensure that data ingestion, ETL, modeling, transformation, validation, and monitoring align with stakeholder needs.
• Own permissions management and partner with Security and Compliance to implement least-privilege access, auditability, retention, and handling controls for sensitive data.
• Build a repeatable process for planning data capture at test events, including required sensor data, metadata, truth data, labels, logging, storage, and validation.
• Coordinate across teams to translate test objectives into clear data requirements and ensure collection systems are ready before testing begins.
• Establish pre-test readiness and post-test reconciliation processes so required data is captured, validated, transferred, cataloged, and available for analysis.
• Use test outcomes and data gaps to continuously improve collection methods, retention strategy, data quality controls, and the underlying data architecture.
• Build and manage teams responsible for data governance and field data operations, while establishing an effective partnership with the Foundry engineering team.
• Sustain data operations at CHAOS test sites, including contributing to test schedule strategy, extraction technology and logistics, , and data labeling.
• Create clear operating procedures, ownership, service levels, and metrics for pipeline reliability, test data capture, and data availability.
• Partner with Foundry engineering to balance immediate test and program needs with long-term investments in scalable architecture, automation, , and team capability.

Skills

Data governance

Data platforms

Analytics infrastructure

Team leadership

ETL

Job description

CHAOS Industries in El Segundo, CA seeks a Manager of Data Management and Operations to own the end-to-end data lifecycle. You will define data definitions, govern data, and ensure secure, auditable access for engineering, AI, test, and business teams.

This is a technical leadership role spanning data governance, data-platform coordination, and test operations. You will build durable systems and teams while remaining close to field execution to understand data quality and collection challenges.