Data Governance and Platform Manager

About LawnStarter LawnStarter is the nation's leading on-demand marketplace for lawn care and outdoor services, with over $150M 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.

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.

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. If the scope grows the way we expect, this becomes the foundation of a team you'd build.

What makes this role different: You're first. Governance has been everyone's side job, so what exists today is yours to reshap