Growth Acceleration Partners is hiring a Senior Data Governance Lead to support a leading private equity firm. In this highly hands-on role, you will help build and mature the data governance function from an early stage, designing ownership models, rule sets, and scalable processes. You will work directly with senior stakeholders in a fast-paced New York finance environment.

What You'll Do

Support and help shape the execution of data management and governance initiatives across multiple business functions and projects.
Work directly with business stakeholders to understand current data landscapes, challenges, and needs.
Capture stakeholder meeting outcomes and translate them into clear action plans and governance deliverables.
Identify and prioritize high-impact, low-complexity opportunities to deliver immediate value.
Contribute to the enrichment and maintenance of the enterprise data catalog (definitions, ownership, metadata).
Assist with defining, implementing, and monitoring data quality rules in collaboration with Data Quality and Engineering teams.
Support data lineage and metadata documentation efforts.
Help coordinate data governance activities across domains, ensuring follow-through and execution.
Document governance processes, decisions, definitions, and artifacts clearly and consistently.
Participate in business-facing sessions and working meetings, serving as a bridge between business and data teams.
Support regulatory and audit-related data governance requirements through proper documentation and controls.

What We're Looking For

Strong understanding of data governance concepts, data ownership, stewardship, and metadata.
Hands-on experience with data catalogs and lineage tools (e.g., Collibra, Alation, Informatica EDC, Azure Purview).
Solid SQL skills to support data investigation, validation, and profiling.
Familiarity with data quality concepts and collaboration with DQ teams.
Understanding of ETL/ELT processes and data pipelines.
Experience using Jira, ServiceNow, or similar tools to track governance tasks and issues.
Comfortable operating in complex, sometimes ambiguous environments with multiple senior stakeholders and shifting priorities.
Direct, clear communicator who can hold their own with New York finance stakeholders, while remaining low-ego and collaborative.
Comfortable interacting directly with senior business stakeholders and facilitating working sessions in a direct, fast-paced New York finance culture.
Highly organized, able to manage multiple parallel tasks and follow through on deliverables.
Practical, execution-oriented mindset and the ability to bring structure and momentum in environments with many stakeholders.