Director of Data Platforms & Governance

AssetWatch serves global manufacturers by powering manufacturing uptime through the delivery of an unparalleled condition monitoring experience, with a passion to care about the assets our customers care for every day. We are a devoted and capable team that includes world-renowned engineers and distinguished business leaders united by a common goal – To build the future of predictive maintenance. As we enter the next phase of rapid growth, we are seeking people to help lead the journey. Director of Data Platforms & Governance AssetWatch serves global manufacturers by powering manufacturing uptime through the delivery of an unparalleled condition monitoring experience, with a passion to care about the assets our customers care for every day. We are a devoted and capable team that includes world-renowned engineers and distinguished business leaders united by a common goal – To build the future of predictive maintenance. As we enter the next phase of rapid growth, we are seeking people to help lead the journey. With a bleeding edge tech stack, we have a unique opportunity to scale how we operate as a data-driven and AI-ready organization . If you love the startup life and the sense of urgency where the platforms you build materially impact the organization’s growth, let us talk. The Director of Data Platforms & Governance owns data as a first-class company asset , ensuring it is reliable, well-governed, discoverable, and ready to power analytics, AI, and product innovation. This leader defines the strategy, architecture, and operating model for AssetWatch’s data platform while building and leading the team responsible for delivering it. The role works closely with Product, Engineering, Analytics, AI, Security, and Enterprise Applications leadership to ensure the company’s systems and data evolve together. What You'll Do Define Data Platform Strategy: In partnership with senior leadership, define the vision, roadmap, and operating model for AssetWatch’s data platform, ensuring it supports analytics, product development, and AI initiatives across the organization. Lead the Data Platforms Organization: Build, lead, and develop the data platforms team, establishing clear goals, accountability, and performance expectations. Develop managers and engineers while fostering a culture of ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement. Set Organizational OKRs: Partner with executive leadership to define strategic OKRs for the data platform organization and translate them into measurable goals for teams and individuals. Own Data as a Company Asset: Establish the governance framework that ensures data across the organization is well-defined, trusted, and properly managed, including dataset ownership, data definitions, lineage, access controls, and lifecycle management. Data Platform Architecture: Design and evolve AssetWatch’s cloud data platform using AWS technologies such as S3, Glue, Athena, Redshift, and Lambda to support scalable analytics, reporting, and AI workloads through MCPs. Data Ingestion & Pipelines: Oversee the development and reliability of data pipelines ingesting information from product telemetry, APIs, and enterprise SaaS systems. Curated Data & Data Modeling: Lead the creation of trusted datasets used for reporting, operational decision making, and machine learning. AI-Ready Data Infrastructure: Ensure the company’s data platform is structured to support AI and machine learning initiatives by enabling reliable, well-modeled data inputs for ML pipelines and advanced analytics. Enterprise Systems Data Integration: Partner closely with Enterprise Applications leadership to ensure systems such as Salesforce, finance platforms, and customer success tools integrate cleanly into the data platform. Data Quality & Reliability: Establish monitoring and operational processes that ensure data accuracy, pipeline reliability, and data freshness. Security, Privacy & Compliance: Work with IT and Security teams to ensure the data pl