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American Century Investments is a leading global asset manager with over 65 years of experience helping a broad base of clients achieve their financial goals. Our expertise spans global equities and fixed income, multi-asset strategies, ETFs, and private investments.

Privately owned and independent, we focus solely on investment management. But there's an unexpected side to us, too. We direct 40% of our dividends every year-over $2 billion since 2000-to the Stowers Institute for Medical Research. Our ongoing financial support drives the Institute's breakthrough work and mission of defeating life-threatening diseases like cancer and Alzheimer's. So, the better we do for our clients, the more we can do for everyone.

All who work here around the globe are inspired every day by the unique difference our hard work can make in so many lives. It shows in the curiosity we bring to every initiative, the deep relationships we build with our clients, and the way we treat each other in the hallway. If you're excited to learn more about us, we can't wait to learn more about you.

Are you a Data Governance Analyst passionate about making unstructured data trusted, compliant, and AIready? In this role, you'll partner with business and technology teams to support and help scale enterprisewide governance efforts that enable unstructured content to be safely leveraged for business operations, analytics, and AI.

You'll join our Enterprise Data Governance team and help support the design and scaling of governance programs and assist in implementing governance practices with a strong focus on unstructured metadata management, information lifecycle management, records and retention, security standards, cataloging, and stewardship enablement. You'll work closely with structured data teams where needed to ensure consistent, endtoend governance.

Success in this role requires the ability to execute the data governance operating model, leverage governance tools to support automation, and contribute to solving business challenges such as content sprawl, data discoverability, sensitivity labeling, retention and disposition, legal hold, and regulatory compliance across unstructured data (e.g., documents, emails, chat content, PDFs, presentations, and images). You'll collaborate with stakeholders to help translate governance concepts for business audiences and contribute to scalable solutions, with guidance from senior team members.

This hybrid position will be based out of our Kansas City, MO office.

This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship. Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. without visa sponsorship, now or in the future.

• Execute the firm's data governance operating model by partnering with business and technology teams to implement enterprise policies and standards across unstructured data (primary focus) and structured data (secondary), including data used for AI and advanced analytics.

• Support and help monitor the rollout of unstructured data governance practices across key content repositories (e.g., SharePoint/Teams, file shares, and cloud content platforms), ensuring metadata quality, accurate classification and sensitivity labeling, retention readiness, and AI fitness.

• Ensure unstructured data complies with regulatory, legal, privacy, and recordsmanagement requirements throughout the information lifecycle.

• Support governance oversight activities for Data Domain teams, including review of data maps, content inventories, metadata documentation, data quality issues, access and security controls, SLAs, and audit, retention, and legalhold readiness.

• Partner with Data Owners, Data Stewards, and technology teams to support the design and implementation of workflows, dashboards, and automation for unstructured data classification, metadata generation, retention controls, access governance, and eDiscovery readiness.

• Support governance enablement through training by partnering with HR Learning & Development to curate and deliver Data Governance, Data Stewardship, and toolspecific education.

• Support Collibra administration and help drive user adoption, including assisting with training and onboarding users, and promoting consistent, effective use of governance tooling.

• Collaborate with governance technology vendors and support discussions on roadmap enhancements related to unstructured metadata, classification, lineage, and policy enforcement.

• Support the management and maintenance of internal data products, including unstructured content repositories and AIready metadata assets (e.g., taxonomies, labels, ownership, and classification outputs), coordinating with structured data teams when shared reference data is required.

• Partner with data platform and cloud engineering teams to contribute to defining governance guardrails for AWSbased processes that automatically extract, enrich, and register unstructured metadata to support AIready data.

• Support efforts to ensure governance standards are embedded into automated pipelines for classification, lineage, retention, and access controls are embedded into automated unstructured metadata pipelines by design.

• Support the enablement of trusted use of unstructured data in AI, analytics, and retrievalaugmented generation (RAG) solutions by ensuring data is discoverable, governed, and approved through appropriate stewardship workflows.

• Collaborate with AI, analytics, and data product teams to align unstructured data governance with AI intake, risk assessment, and inventory processes, ensuring clear traceability between data assets, use cases, and controls.

• Assist in translating AIready data requirements into scalable, repeatable governance patterns that can be consistently applied across domains and development teams.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and relevant work experience.

• 2+ years of experience in data governance, data management, or data operations including exposure to classification, tagging, retention, and access controls.

• Strong communication skills, with the ability to translate complex data governance concepts for both business and technical audiences.

• Proven problem solver with an analytical, methodical approach and comfort operating in dynamic, fastpaced, and ambiguous environments.

• Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively and communicate clearly with stakeholders at all levels of the organization.

• Demonstrates the American Century Investments Winning Behaviors: Client Focused, Courageous and Accountable, Collaborative, Curious and Adaptable, Competitively Driven.

• Experience governing unstructured metadata and content controls (e.g., sensitivity labels, classification, tagging, retention schedules), with the ability to align to structured metadata standards as needed.

• Experience governing unstructured data in platforms such as SharePoint, Teams, file shares, or cloud content repositories.

• Experience using data governance or cataloging tools (e.g., Collibra, Informatica, IBM IGC) for content inventory, data mapping, metadata management, and traceability.

• Familiarity with AIready data concepts, including governance of unstructured data used in AI, search, and RAGbased solutions.

• Experience with information lifecycle management, records management, and legal hold processes.

• Familiarity with data security and data protection principles.

• Background in policy and standards development for data classification and retention.

• Experience in financial services or asset management environments.

• Familiarity with cloud technologies and automation supporting unstructured data governance.

• Project Management, Agile, or Six Sigma skills.

• Experience with Python and SQL.

The above statements are not intended to be a complete list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required.

• Competitive compensation package with bonus plan

• Generous PTO and competitive benefits

• 401k with 5% company match plus annual performance-based discretionary contribution

• Tuition reimbursement, formal mentorship program, live and online learning

Learn more about our benefits and perks.

Employees are required to be in the office on a scheduled frequency. Adherence to this schedule is essential to fulfilling the expectations of the role.

American Century Investments is committed to complying with the Americans with Disabilities Act and all other applicable Equal Employment Opportunity laws and regulations. As such, American Century strives to provide a reasonable accommodation to any qualified individual under the ADA to perform essential job functions.

We encourage people of all backgrounds to join us on our mission. If you require reasonable accommodation for any aspect of the recruitment process, please send a request to HR-Talent_Acquisition@americancentury.com. All requests for accommodation will be addressed as confidentially as practicable.

American Century Investments believes all individuals are entitled to equal employment opportunity and advancement opportunities without regard to race, religious creed, color, sex, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age for individuals forty years of age and older, military and veteran status, sexual orientation, and any other basis protected by applicable federal, state and local laws. ACI does not discriminate or adopt any policy that discriminates against an individual or any group of individuals on any of these bases.

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