(Senior) Data Governance Manager (f/m/d)
Upvest provides regulated, API-first investment infrastructure for fintechs, banks, brokers, and wealth managers across Europe and the UK.
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About Upvest
Upvest is a Berlin-based, regulated investment-infrastructure company serving financial institutions that want to launch and scale brokerage, wealth, and pension products. Its cloud-native Investment API provides brokerage, settlement, custody, and real-time investment functionality, while its operations offering automates middle- and back-office processes. Upvest supports flexible operating models under its own or clients’ licences and offers fractional securities, portfolios, and savings plans across European and UK markets.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
As Upvest's first Data Governance Manager, you will own the entire market data governance function, manage provider and exchange relationships, negotiate licensing agreements, ensure compliant redistribution, and advise the business on new products and asset classes.
Requirements
- Law degree or equivalent legal training preferred, or 5+ years of hands-on market data licensing experience.
- 3–6 years of experience in the market data space.
- Strong knowledge of exchange licensing, redistribution rights, derived data rules, and reporting obligations.
- Ability to independently conduct commercial negotiations.
- Understanding of entitlement systems, data feeds, and APIs.
- Detail-oriented and experienced in documenting complex licensing landscapes.
- Fluent English; German is a plus.
- Based in Berlin is mandatory.
Responsibilities
- Own relationships with market data and static asset data providers.
- Lead commercial negotiations from initial terms through signature and renewal.
- Ensure market data redistribution to B2B clients is properly licensed.
- Fulfill entitlement and usage reporting obligations.
- Maintain records of data consumption and distribution for audit readiness.
- Advise internal teams on market data access, costs, and licensing conditions.
- Assess, select, and onboard new market data providers and exchanges.
- Establish best-practice market data governance processes.
- Identify cost savings through renegotiation, consolidation, and usage optimization.
- Monitor policy and commercial changes and communicate material developments.
- Support management of other Network partners.
Benefits
- €20,000 per year for AI tools
- 30 days of annual leave
- Sports benefits
- Confidential professional coaching
- Remote work abroad for up to 183 days per year
- One-month fully paid sabbatical every four years
- Personal development budget
- Flexible work environment across Berlin, London, or Tallinn hubs
- Equity participation program
- Company-wide events, dinners, offsites, and holiday party
- Employee Resource Groups
