Data Operations - Enterprise Market Data Strategy Lead

TEAM OVERVIEW

KKR’s Global Data Operations team is an enterprise data management and delivery organization focused on making the firm’s data more trusted, connected, actionable, and valuable. The team provides leverage across the full data lifecycle, from data sourcing and collection through data quality, enrichment, governance, reporting, and analytics. Working globally across KKR’s businesses and functions, Data Operations partners with stakeholders to translate complex data needs into scalable solutions, stronger operating processes, and high-quality insights that improve transparency, accelerate decision-making, and help the firm operate with greater speed, consistency, and intelligence.

Within Data Operations, KKR is establishing a new Enterprise Market Data Strategy capability to shape the future of one of the firm’s most critical information assets. This role will define and drive the firm-wide strategy for market data, partnering across businesses and functions to optimize investments, unlock greater value from data providers, and ensure market data capabilities evolve alongside KKR’s growth. The leader will influence commercial negotiations, steer enterprise-wide demand management, drive transparency into spending and usage, and build the operating model, reporting, and tools that enable smarter decision-making across the firm. Working at the intersection of strategy, data, finance, and operations, this role offers a unique opportunity to create a scalable market data ecosystem that enhances investment insight, improves efficiency, and delivers measurable enterprise value.

POSITION OVERVIEW

We are seeking a Principal, Enterprise Market Data Strategy to serve as the dedicated enterprise lead for market data strategy, execution, and optimization within KKR’s Global Data Operations organization. This is a newly created role designed to elevate a critical capability area — building a structured, enterprise-wide approach to KKR’s market data landscape, spanning hundreds of vendor relationships, thousands of product subscriptions, and millions of dollars in annual spend across multiple business lines and functions.

The scope of this role is strategic and cross-functional. The person in this seat will own KKR’s overall market data vision, build deep knowledge of the firm’s vendor and product ecosystem, develop a comprehensive enterprise inventory, drive demand management and optimization, create transparency around spend and utilization, and establish the governance cadences and decision-making processes needed to manage market data. They will partner actively with business COOs, Sourcing, Legal, FP&A, Technology, and Data Operations to connect insights across the organization, align market data investments with business priorities, and build a scalable enterprise capability that delivers measurable value across the firm.

The ideal candidate combines deep knowledge of the market data vendor and product ecosystem with the strategic orientation, executive presence, and cross-functional execution discipline required to operate as a senior leader at a world-class