Senior Data Management Lead - AI & Automation

StepStone Group; La Jolla Ranch (CA); On-site; USD 117,000 - 143,000; Full time

Job summary

StepStone Group is seeking a Data Analytics & Technology Solutions leader to own end-to-end data workflows, quality controls, and AI-driven automation across private markets. You will manage a diverse team across onshore, offshore, and vendor resources, partnering with engineering, analytics, and product teams to translate operations into scalable platform capabilities.

This role requires hands-on technical fluency (SQL, data platforms, AI tooling), strong leadership, and the ability to drive

Qualifications

• Experience designing and implementing data workflows at scale, with measurable automation gains.
• Direct people management experience, including offshore or vendor delivery.
• Hands-on experience applying AI to operational data problems, including document extraction, data classification, mapping, and quality controls.
• Working knowledge of private markets data, including fund structures, cash flows, performance reporting, and portfolio company financials.

Responsibilities

• Owns the end-to-end design, execution, and quality of data management workflows within the team’s scope, from intake and extraction through validation, mapping, and release to downstream systems and clients.
• Establishes the control framework for data quality: accuracy and completeness standards, automated checks and exception queues, and accountability to defined SLAs
• Leads the application of AI and automation across its data management processes, including data extraction, classification, entity resolution, and mapping, while evaluating technologies, designing human-in-the-loop workflows, and measuring accuracy gains and efficiency improvements against manual processes
• Assesses current-state workflows to find the root causes of rework and error, and delivers redesigned processes with documented procedures, controls, and measurable throughput gains
• Governs the data mapping framework that connects source data to StepStone’s enterprise data model, including taxonomies, entity hierarchies, identifiers, and the processes for proposing, approving, versioning, and maintaining mapping rules
• Manages and develops a team across onshore, offshore, and vendor resources. Sets priorities and capacity plans and builds training and quality review programs
• Partners with DATS engineering, analytics, and product teams to translate recurring operational pain into platform capability, writing clear requirements and following through to adoption
• Serves as the escalation point for data quality issues raised across investment, finance, reporting, and client-facing teams, driving resolution to root cause rather than symptom
• Defines, tracks, and reports operational KPIs across volume, cycle time, quality, cost, and automation, using performance trends to determine where the team should focus its next investments and improvement efforts

Skills

SQL

Data modeling

Analytical thinking

Stakeholder communication

People management

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Tools

Snowflake

Power BI

Power Platform

APIs

Job description

StepStone Group is seeking a Data Analytics & Technology Solutions leader to own end-to-end data workflows, quality controls, and AI-driven automation across private markets. You will manage a diverse team across onshore, offshore, and vendor resources, partnering with engineering, analytics, and product teams to translate operations into scalable platform capabilities.

This role requires hands-on technical fluency (SQL, data platforms, AI tooling), strong leadership, and the ability to drive