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. About the Role 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%): 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. Data Literacy & Adoption (30%): 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. Cross-Pillar Partnership (25%): 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. Strategic Innovation & Business Impact (10%): 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. Major Objectives/Project for the role in the first 6-12 months 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 About You 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 Compensation Details B Lab has a compensation plan that includes: 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 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. 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 off for volunteering - after one year of service One time home office set-up allowance Additional perks you may qualify for: monthly home office allowance, monthly food allowance & monthly health insurance reimbursement Remote-first workplace This will be a CLT contract. This is a Full-Time Role (40 hours per week, 5DWW) with no option for part-time work. This job ad is for São Paulo, Brazil. While this is a remote-first opportunity, the candidate filling this role must hold Brazilian work authorization without any time limitations or any other restrictions, and they must be a resident of Brazil at the start of employment. Additionally, they must be within commuting distance of São Paulo. If you wish to be based in one of our other locations listed for this role, please visit our Careers page and submit your application through the job ad that best fits with where you hold residency and work authorization. Hiring Process We require all of the following in order to consider your application: Resume - Please submit an English translation of your resume Complete responses to our standard set of application questions - Please respond to our questions in English Please do not include a cover letter. Please note that incomplete applications will not be considered. If you progress through additional stages in the hiring process you can expect to: Step 1: Submit your resume and responses to our application questions in full Step 2: Participate in an interview with a panel via Google Meet or Zoom (all candidates must have their cameras on) Step 3: Participate in an interview with a panel via Google Meet or Zoom (all candidates must have their cameras on) Step 4: Complete an exercise and participate in a final interview with a panel via Google Meet or Zoom (all candidates must have their cameras on) Please note that your first day of work must be in-person at one of our office locations to complete onboarding documents and meet with some members of our team. We will begin reviewing applications on September 7th, 2026 and will continue until we identify a diverse and qualified candidate pool. Please note: All applications will be reviewed by our team, and all candidates will receive a status update via email after their application has been reviewed, which we expect to complete by mid March. This job ad will close automatically at 9:00AM EST on September 25th . It may be closed sooner the planned based on the volume and quality of applications. Due to capacity constraints on our hiring team, we are unable to provide you with a specific status update beyond these parameters but all candidates will hear back via e-mail once we have completed or review of applications. Our ideal start date for this role is early November to December