Data Governance & Platform Manager

Job Overview

com About LawnStarter LawnStarter is the nation's leading on-demand marketplace for lawn care and outdoor services, with over $100M in annual bookings.

We're expanding beyond lawn care to become the one-stop shop for all home services - operating across three brands (LawnStarter, Lawn Love, Home Gnome) on a single shared platform.

Job Description

The foundation is solid: a centralized Redshift data warehouse where all source data lands, modeled in dbt and orchestrated by Airflow, with Segment feeding event data in.

You won't be stitching scattered sources together - the platform exists; your job is to make it trustworthy and keep it that way. We're mid-migration to Lightdash as our single BI platform, replacing Tableau and Metabase.

Here's the honest gap: everyone on the team today is an analyst. Data quality, tracking standards, and platform hygiene get done as side work, squeezed between analyses. Nobody wakes up thinking about them - which is exactly the job we're hiring for.

The Role You'll be the first person at LawnStarter dedicated to data governance - the owner of whether our data can be trusted.

That means the quality and freshness of our source data, pipelines, and reports; the definitions behind our metrics; the standards behind our Segment event tracking; the health of our Lightdash workspace; the data feeding our machine learning models; and the security of the data itself.

This is a hands-on role. You'll work solo at first, with the Analytics team around you but nobody under you - building automation, writing checks, fixing what's broken, and putting processes in place that scale past you.

Key Responsibilities

• .com About LawnStarter LawnStarter is the nation's leading on-demand marketplace for lawn care and outdoor services, with over $100M in annual bookings.
• About Analytics at LawnStarter We're a small, senior analytics team supporting the entire company - product, marketing, operations, and finance all run on the data we serve.
• You'll work solo at first, with the Analytics team around you but nobody under you - building automation, writing checks, fixing what's broken, and putting processes in place that scale past you.
• If the scope grows the way we expect, this becomes the foundation of a team you'd build.
• The hard part: autonomy and tidiness pull in opposite directions, and you have to deliver both.
• Every area of the business manages on official, well-maintained metrics and dashboards - product, marketing, ops, and finance self-serve in Lightdash against a fully mapped semantic layer; Tableau and Metabase are retired; arguments about whose number is right don't happen.
• You use AI tools (Claude Code, Copilot, ChatGPT) daily to build quality checks, write automation, triage anomalies, and document as you go - one person covering ground that used to take a team.
• Your instinct for any recurring check is to build a monitor, not a checklist.

Required Skills and Qualifications

• You need hands-on depth in the warehouse/pipeline layer and credible experience keeping a BI tool and tracking plan healthy at company scale.

Benefits and Perks

• Benefits Compensation & Benefits Base salary : $75k-$100k/year Equity : The whole company makes decisions on the data you'll guard.
• Flexible PTO : We focus on results.

Work Location and Schedule

This role is listed as Remote USA with location information shown as Remote USA. The employment type is Full Time.

About the Company

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