Director, Product & Data Governance

Responsibilities

• Own the governance framework for the Insurance Platform, spanning product onboarding, data usage, API standards, and shared platform assets.
• Establish and maintain clear decision rights and guardrails for teams onboarding to the platform, reducing ambiguity and rework while accelerating delivery.
• Govern platform-wide consistency across data definitions, schema evolution, versioning, backward compatibility, and deprecation policies.
• Ensure governance enables parallel onboarding of products without fragmentation across delivery channels.
• Design and run the platform governance operating model, including intake processes, review forums, escalation paths, and exception management.
• Stand up and lead the appropriate governance forums (cadence, scope, and participants) to ensure fast, high-quality decisions.
• Act as the single point of accountability for governance outcomes across the Insurance Platform.
• Partner with Platform Product Management to ensure all core and strategic products onboard to the Insurance Platform in alignment with governance standards.
• Provide governance oversight across the product lifecycle—from concept and onboarding through change management and retirement.
• Ensure customer-facing behaviors and artifacts (e.g., OpenAPI specs, JSON documentation, platform standards) are consistent and reliable.
• Ensure product- and platform-level governance aligns with regulatory, privacy, security, and data quality requirements while enabling speed to value and innovation.
• Partner closely with Legal, Privacy, Information Security, and Compliance teams to embed controls and risk management into standard ways of working.
• Proactively identify governance risks and drive mitigation strategies before they impact our markets.
• Enable governance as a capability and an enabler—driving adoption through clarity, shared standards, and education.
• Lead, coach and mentor a talented governance team that is highly influential, scaling capabilities and working within our Data Governance Product team.
• Lead, coach and mentor a talented governance team that is highly influential, scaling capabilities and working within our Data Governance Product team.
• Act as a trusted partner to senior product, technology, and business leaders.
• Influence without authority—driving alignment across distributed teams with competing priorities.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in product management, data governance, platform governance, or large-scale technology platforms.
• Prior experience operating in platform-based or API-driven environments, preferably in regulated industries (insurance, financial services, healthcare).
• Deep understanding of product onboarding, data models, API standards, and platform operating models.
• Proven ability to design and run governance that scales with growth and modernization.
• Experience applying AI, automation, or advanced analytics to improve governance processes, strengthen decision-making, and accelerate platform adoption.
• Strong executive presence with the ability to communicate clearly with senior leadership and cross-functional partners.
• Proven ability to coach and mentor others.