Earnest empowers people with the financial capital they need to live better lives.

We're an accomplished team of technology, finance, and design geeks who believe consumer lending can be radically improved and are doing something about it. We are disrupting the trillion dollar student loan industry by redefining what it means to be creditworthy. We created a company that combines data science, streamlined design, and technology to:

• Build products that simplify the lending process
• Personalize loans to suit the needs of our customers
• Engage with our customers through more human experiences

Our culture is one that values transparency and blameless problem solving. Earnest has a strong track record of employee growth and career progression. Earnies are empathetic, product-focused, proactive, and curious.

The Senior Data Governance Analyst will create the Data Governance program at Earnest. You will provide leadership to develop the practical data policies and guidelines to manage the accuracy, quality, and governance of data. As the Senior Data Governance Analyst, you will report to the Head of Data and you will:

• Lead Data Governance Council and Working Group meetings to resolve issues from marketing, operations and finance teams
• Collaborate with product engineering teams to determine the causes of data quality issues and implement preventative controls
• Create and operationalize the Data Governance roadmap, focusing on data handling, data curation/catalog, and data quality through policy, auditing, and collaboration
• Design data lineage, quality checks, business rules and data dictionary
• Identify data owners and collaborate with business/technical stewards of our information assets

Ideal background and expertise:

• Master's in Information Management/Systems, Technology, or related graduate degree, or a Bachelor's Degree with relevant experience
• 6+ years of professional experience in data or business analysis, data management/engineering, data quality/governance
• Experience establishing and implementing Data Governance/Quality programs
• Proficiency with SQL and data visualization tools such as Looker or Tableau
• Experience building quality tooling, writing quality tests/checks and working with Quality/Infrastructure engineering teams
• Experience using Airflow, dBt, Redshift, Snowflake, Postgres or other ETL tools and databases a plus

Earnest Perks & Benefits:

• Health, Dental, & Vision benefits plus savings plans
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• 401(k) plan to help you save for retirement plus a company match
• Tuition reimbursement program
• $1000 flight on each Earnie-versary to anywhere in the world and 25 days of annual PTO

Earnest provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. Qualified applicants with criminal histories will be considered for the position in a manner consistent with the Fair Chance Ordinance.