Data Governance Lead (São Paulo, Brasil)

Please Note: B Lab is not working with a third party to fill this role an no part of our process requires applicants to pay fees. Applicants should only use our job board to submit an application, and will interact directly with our team during this process.

This is a Full-Time Role (40 hours per week, 5 days per week) with no option for part-time work. While this is a remote-first opportunity, the candidate filling this role must be a resident of the Netherlands, the U.K. or Brazil at the start of employment. Additionally, they must be within commuting distance of our office in Amsterdam, London, or São Paulo.

Please visit our Careers page to review all opportunities and submit your application for the role(s) that best fit your location and work authorization.

The Data & AI team is responsible for building B Lab's data platform, delivering on business priorities, and scaling AI adoption across the organization. The team reports directly to the CTDO. The Data & ML Platforms team owns the data platform, ML infrastructure, and the foundational data models the rest of the Data & AI team depends on - the supply-side capability layer that Business & Data Priorities and AI Enablement build on.

As the Data Governance Lead on the Data & ML Platforms pillar, you own data standards, definitions, and sensitivity classification across B Lab's data platform, and ensure the platform and its analytics comply with relevant laws and documentation requirements. Beyond governance, you play a growing role in building data literacy across the organization - helping teams understand and trust the data available to them, and ensuring definitions and standards are actually adopted, not just documented. You work closely with the Senior Analytics Engineer and Data Engineer to make sure new models and pipelines are built to standard from the start.

Core Responsibilities

Data Standards & Governance (35%):

Data Literacy & Adoption (30%):

Cross-Pillar Partnership (25%):

Strategic Innovation & Business Impact (10%):

Major Objectives/Project for the role in the first 6-12 months

About You

• Own Data Standards & Definitions: Establish and maintain the organization's data standards, definitions, and sensitivity classifications.
• Ensure Compliance: Keep the data platform and analytics practices compliant with relevant laws and internal policy.
• Drive Standards Adoption: Work across pillars to ensure data standards are actually used, not just documented.
• Build Data Literacy: Develop training, documentation, and other enablement so teams across B Lab can confidently interpret and trust the data available to them.
• Partner with Platform Peers: Work with the Senior Analytics Engineer and Data Engineer to ensure new models and pipelines are built to standard.
• Support Pillar 2 & 3: Help Network Priorities, Regional Enablement, and AI Enablement apply data standards consistently in their work.
• Evaluate Governance Tooling: Explore and pilot new tools or approaches for data cataloging, lineage, and standards enforcement.
• Quantify Literacy Impact: Track and articulate how improved data literacy and standards adoption reduce rework and improve decision quality across teams.
• Create concepts for data classification (public, private, sensitive, etc)
• Apply concepts to our data
• Enable network to understand concepts and how to interact with them
• Enable the Data Platform to be more aligned with regulatory requirements and laws
• Overall 3+ years of experience in data modeling and/or data governance roles
• SQL/Data Fluency : Working knowledge of SQL and data models sufficient to audit and advise on governance implementation.
• Data Governance: Experience establishing and maintaining data standards, definitions, and sensitivity/classification frameworks .
• Data Literacy & Enablement: Experience communicating technical data concepts to non-technical stakeholders and driving adoption of standards across teams.
• Compliance Knowledge: Familiarity with data-related legal and regulatory requirements relevant to the organization's data platform and analytics.
• Documentation: Strong written communication skills; comfort building and maintaining clear, discoverable documentation.
• Cross-Team Collaboration: Ability to influence without direct authority across the Data & AI department.
• Excellent communication skills and comfort with facilitating live and asynchronous trainings or workshops on data governance
• A BA/BS in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field preferred
• Fluent in English

B Lab has a compensation plan that includes:

We also offer other benefits that are based on company policy and are not included in your contract and therefore are subject to change or addition as our organization works to support our staff.

• A yearly salary in the range of R$212,960 - R$261,030 (not including the 13th salary)
• Sick & other leave in accordance with Brazilian statutory leave allowance
• Company provided laptop
• Paid time off during organization-wide closures for wellness
• Professional Development and time off: 40 hours paid time off with access to professional development after 1 year of service
• Paid time o