Chief Data Officer

Chief Data Officer

Department: Department of Commerce

Location(s): Alexandria, Virginia

Salary Range: $147649 - $204000 Per Year

Job Summary: The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is seeking a technical expert to ensure data is managed as a valuable asset. The role will provide technical expertise in managing data as a strategic asset to enable evidence-building, data-driven activities, advanced analytics such as artificial intelligence (AI), drive business value, and ensure compliance with Federal laws and regulations at the USPTO.

Major Duties:

• The Chief Data Officer (CDO) is responsible for developing and implementing the agency's data strategy across the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), ensuring data is managed as a valuable USPTO asset. The CDO serves as the principal advisor to the Chief Information Officer, Deputy Chief Information Officer and Senior Executives and manages data as a strategic asset to ensure and enable evidence-building, data-driven activities, advanced analytics such as artificial intelligence (AI), digital transformation, and the delivery of business value. The CDO ensures compliance with all legal and regulatory requirements relevant to the USPTO's data governance and data management activities, data inventory, and promotion of enhanced access and use of the USPTO's expansive and valuable data. The CDO will also serve as the USPTO's representative and primary point of contact for the Department of Commerce and other federal agencies regarding matters of data and data governance. Major duties of the Chief Data Officer include, but are not limited to the following: Data Strategy Development: Implementing a comprehensive USPTO-wide data strategy that aligns with the USPTO's goals and objectives, ensuring data is AI ready and managed to effectively drive business outcomes. This includes implementing the strategy and ensuring agency-wide alignment to the strategy. Data Management: Applying the operating model to manage a data asset throughout its lifecycle to ensure quality and standard data for effective use and improved evidence-based and data-driven decision-making. Ensuring that data is effectively managed throughout its lifecycle, implementing policies and practices that promote data integrity, security, and compliance with data governance and protection laws and other federal regulations. Data Governance: Serving on the Agency-wide data governance board with executive level representatives from across the USPTO; designing the Agency-wide operating model outlining how the USPTO organizes and manages its data. Establishing a logical grouping of data assets based on shared characteristics. Clearly outline data ownership and data asset accountability. Define and implement operating model roles and responsibilities within each USPTO business unit and for each logical grouping of data assets. Risk Management: Identifying and mitigating data-related risks, ensuring robust data security measures are in place to protect sensitive information. Partnering with other executives when data governance, data management, or data assets may mitigate business operations risks. Enable Data Analytics: Leading data analytics initiatives to extract insights from data, supporting decision-making processes across the organization, or assist other Business Units in accomplishing their data analytics goals. Using data analytics to manage data as an asset and uncover any gaps or inconsistencies in implementing data governance, data management, or data quality. Collaboration: Working closely with agency executives, senior leaders and experts, such as the Commissioners for Patents and Trademarks, Chief Financial Officer, Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer, Chief Information Security Officer, Performance Improvement Officer, and Chief Administrative Officer to manage the data lifecycle and identify opportunities for leveraging data to enhance business performance, drive digital transformation initiatives, and ensure that data strategies support overall business goals. Reviewing data asset accessibility and coordinate to reduce barriers that inhibit data asset accessibility for evidence building; facilitating maximum use of data in the USPTO, to produce evidence for policy, support cybersecurity, and improve operations. The position may not require relocation to headquarters if applicant is within distance or willing to report to one of the Regional Offices. Occasional travel will be required.

Qualifications: To meet the minimum requirements for a Senior Level position, candidates must be a recognized subject matter expert with directly related experience. Typically, experience of this nature will have been gained at the GS-15 or equivalent level in the federal service or its equivalent in the private sector. Candidates must demonstrate their experience meets the Professional Technical Qualifications (PTQs) for this position in their two-page resume and this experience must have been at a sufficiently high level of difficulty to clearly show the candidate possesses the required subject matter expertise and technical qualifications set forth below. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. To be considered, the resume must not exceed two pages. Written narratives for the Professional Technical Qualifications are not required. Candidates must demonstrate their experience meets the Professional Technical Qualifications for this position in their two-page resume. PROFESSIONAL TECHNICAL QUALIFICATIONS (PTQS): Knowledge of, and demonstrated experience with, the principles, procedures, and tools of data governance and data management, such as data assets, data operating models, data glossaries, data dictionaries, metadata standardization, and data lifecycle management. Demonstrated experience overseeing an enterprise data catalog. This includes experience creating and scaling data inventorying and cataloging operations, leading enterprise data governance through implementing roles and responsibilities in a data catalog, and promulgating data governance and data management policies and best practices across the enterprise to leverage data for maximum business value. There is NO requirement to prepare a narrative statement specifically addressing the PTQs. Candidates should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government, passionate about the ideals of our American republic, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United States Constitution. Candidates will not be hired based on their race, sex, color, religion, or national origin.

How to Apply: The following instructions outline our application process. You must complete this application process and submit any required documents by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time (ET) on the closing date of this announcement. To preview the Application Questionnaire, please click the following link: To begin, click Apply to access the online application. You will need to be logged into your USAJOBS account to apply. If you do not have a USAJOBS account, you will need to create one before beginning the application. Follow the prompts to select your resume and/or other supporting documents to be included with your application package. You will have the opportunity to upload additional documents to include in your application before it is submitted. Your uploaded documents may take several hours to clear the virus scan process. After acknowledging you have reviewed your application package, complete the Include Personal Information section as you deem appropriate and click to continue with the application process. You will be taken to the online application which you must complete in order to apply for the position. Complete the online application, verify the required documentation is included with your application package, and submit the application. You must re-select your resume and/or other documents from your USAJOBS account or your application will be incomplete. It is your responsibility to verify that your application package (resume, supporting documents, and responses to the questionnaire) is complete, accurate, and submitted by the closing date. Uploaded documents may take up to one hour to clear the virus scan. Additional information on how to complete the online application process and submit your online application may be found on the USA Staffing Applicant Resource Center.

Application Deadline: 2026-01-02