Head of Data Management & Field Operations

Chaos, Inc.; El Segundo (CA); Hybrid; USD 246,000 - 339,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401k with company match

Relocation assistance

Free daily lunch

No meeting Fridays

Unlimited PTO

Job summary

CHAOS Industries in Los Angeles and other global offices seeks a Manager of Data Management and Operations to own end-to-end data lifecycle, governance, and field data operations. You will partner with the Foundry engineering team to ensure secure, auditable data flow from ingestion to analysis and define durable data platforms for rapid test execution.

The role blends technical leadership with operations, focusing on data quality, access control, and scalable architecture while supporting field

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

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Strategic thinking

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, Information Systems, or related technical field

Tools

Palantir Foundry

Job description

CHAOS Industries in Los Angeles and other global offices seeks a Manager of Data Management and Operations to own end-to-end data lifecycle, governance, and field data operations. You will partner with the Foundry engineering team to ensure secure, auditable data flow from ingestion to analysis and define durable data platforms for rapid test execution.

The role blends technical leadership with operations, focusing on data quality, access control, and scalable architecture while supporting field