Principal, Data Strategy & Governance

Role Overview

The Principal, Data Strategy & Governance is a driving force behind PTC’s unified, trusted, AI-ready foundation for product usage data across its software portfolio. This role will translate data governance strategy into working standards, set the cross-product data direction, and drive the AI-ready data foundation.

What You Will Do

Key responsibilities include establishing and maintaining data ownership and stewardship models, developing and publishing data standards, owning the data catalog, defining data quality dimensions, and partnering with Security, Legal, and Privacy to apply classification and access policies to product usage data.

Why It Might Be a Fit

The ideal candidate will have 10+ years of experience in data governance, data management, analytics delivery, or product analytics, including at least 4 years running programs or delivery workstreams with cross-functional stakeholders.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative, technical, or business discipline, or equivalent practical experience
• 10+ years of experience in data governance, data management, analytics delivery, or product analytics
• Demonstrated hands-on ownership of governance capabilities such as data ownership models, business glossaries, metadata and lineage, data quality frameworks, or classification and access policy
• Working fluency in SQL and comfort profiling data directly to validate quality, coverage, and definitions
• Experience with product telemetry and instrumentation, including event schema design, identity and key strategy, and partnering with engineering teams to deliver reliable events
• Practical experience with a cloud data platform (Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, or similar) and modern BI tooling

Benefits

• Anticipated annual salary range of $120,000-$140,000
• Performance-based bonus
• Employee share purchase program (ESPP)
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Paid time off and sick leave
• Tuition reimbursement
• 401(k) contributions and employer match
• Flexible spending accounts
• Life insurance
• Disability coverage
• Commuter subsidy

Tagged as: BigQuery, Snowflake, SQL