Data Governance and Tooling Manager

Chainguard is seeking a Senior Data Governance & Tooling Manager to own the integrity, structure, and long-term strategy of our GTM data ecosystem. This role will be accountable for ensuring our CRM data - from accounts and contacts through lifecycle, enrichment, and attribution - is accurate, trusted, scalable, and actionable across Sales, Marketing, RevOps, and GTM Systems. The Senior Manager will establish a digital data governance framework, ensure data assets are trusted, compliant and effectively leveraged, and embed data stewardship into the culture of the organization. This person will also serve as a key liaison between Revenue Operations and the GTM systems to ensure all core tools are configured correctly and optimized for the fields needs.

This person will sit at the intersection of data governance, systems, and revenue operations, partnering closely with Sales Operations, GTM Systems, and Marketing Operations to ensure that every downstream decision is powered by high-quality data. What you will do: Data Strategy & Governance

• Work with our systems team to define Chainguard’s CRM data strategy, including data models for accounts, contacts, leads, opportunities, and related objects
• Establish and enforce data governance standards: definitions, ownership, validation rules, SLAs, and quality thresholds
• Create a clear system of record philosophy across tools (CRM, enrichment platforms, marketing automation, analytics stack)

Data Quality & Integrity

• Own ongoing data hygiene across accounts and contacts, including deduplication, normalization, enrichment, and lifecycle management
• Design scalable processes and governance for data accuracy, completeness, freshness, and consistency
• Proactively identify and remediate data issues before they impact reporting, pipeline, or go-to-market execution

Cross-Functional Enablement

• Partner with:

• Sales Ops / RevOps to ensure data supports territory planning, forecasting, and pipeline management, and sales process
• GTM Systems to align data models with CRM architecture, integrations, and automation
• Marketing Operations to ensure clean inbound data flow, lead-to-account matching, and attribution

Translate business requirements into scalable data frameworks that work across teamsProcess, Tooling & Scalability

• Own and optimize enrichment strategy (e.g., Clay and related tools), balancing coverage, cost, and accuracy
• Design processes for data ingestion from inbound, outbound, partners, and product-led sources
• Prepare the data foundation to scale with company growth, new segments, new motions, and future tooling changes
• Align on systems roadmap from a RevOps perspective to ensure prioritization is clear

Leadership & Influence

• Act as the authoritative owner of GTM data, driving alignment without becoming a bottleneck
• Educate stakeholders on best practices around data usage and governance
• Build a roadmap for data maturity that aligns with Chainguard’s growth stage

• 5+ years of experience in Data Governance or GTM Systems roles
• Deep hands-on experience with CRM systems (Salesforce strongly preferred)
• Experience building or scaling data governance frameworks at a high-growth company
• Proven ownership of account and contact data models in a B2B SaaS environment
• Experience working closely with Sales Ops, Marketing Ops, and Systems teams
• Strong understanding of enrichment providers, inbound data flows, and lifecycle management
• Ability to balance strategic thinking with tactical execution.

Traits for Success:

• Opinionated but collaborative - able to drive standards while partnering effectively
• Systems thinker who anticipates second- and third-order effects of data decisions
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity and evolving environments
• High bar for data quality, with pragmatism about speed vs. perfection

• Our Approach to Equity: Receive stock options upon hire and promotion. Plus, you can participate in secondary offerings and have 10 years to exercise your options (yes, you read that correctly: 10 years!).
• 100% Covered Health Insurance: We cover 100% of your health, vision and dental insurance premiums for you and your dependents. Nothing comes out of your paycheck.
• ? Flexible Time Off: Take the time you need - to do our best work, we need to recharge and reset.
• 18 Weeks Paid Parental Leave: We offer 18 weeks for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents, with the option to use it all at once or throughout your child’s first year.

Chainguard is the trusted source for open source. By delivering hardened, secure, and production-ready builds of all the open source software engineers and AI agents rely on, Chainguard helps organizations build faster, stay compliant, and eliminate risk.

Our customers include Fortune 500 enterprises and global industry leaders, including Anduril, Canva, Fortinet, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, OpenAI, Snap Inc., and Snowflake.

Chainguard is venture-backed by leading investors, including Amplify, IVP, Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Mantis VC, Redpoint Ventures, Sequoia Capital, and Spark Capital., We live and breathe our company values:

• We are customer obsessed - We focus on delivering solutions to our customers that create value and make their lives better.
• We have a bias for intentional action - We prioritize, plan, try things, and fail fast.
• We don’t take ourselves too seriously (but we do serious work) - We are solving an important problem which takes focus, but we also like to enjoy the journey.