Job Title: Director of Data
Job Responsibilities:
Data Science Leadership and Strategy:
- Define the vision and roadmap for the firm's data initiatives in collaboration with the innovation leadership team.
- Lead problem definition, agile problem solving, and integrated data solutioning, including both technical and organizational data transformation.
- Establish and lead a high-performing data team to support business goals.
- Develop and promote a modern, collaborative, and solution-oriented data culture throughout the organization.
Data Management and Organization:
- Ensure data management is focused on the problems and needs of end-users and customers.
- Oversee the development of a modern enterprise data management system and process, including legal-specific data products.
- Coordinate cross-functional collaboration on data cleanup and migration.
- Identify, acquire, and integrate data sources (internal and external) to support analytics and other firm use cases.
Data Science and Engineering:
- Oversee the development of the firm's data infrastructure into a modern, flexible, best-in-industry capability that connects data management with infrastructure, data science, and AI capabilities, and the ultimate end-user demands.
- Implement data systems with robust data pipelines and workflows for efficient data collection, storage, and analysis end-to-end.
- Oversee the integration of data modeling, data science and AI solutions development, and software engineering.
- Collaborate with other enterprise technology, information governance, and security teams to ensure proper data governance, security, and privacy protocols in the data platform.
Data Delivery and Automation:
- Oversee the integration of service delivery to internal and external customers of data-driven products, including AI solutions with the management and development of data capabilities.
- Collaborate with business owners to streamline and automate routine data delivery capabilities while expanding service footprint with increased coverage and new opportunity identification.
- Create systems and processes to integrate data delivery with other crucial firm functions such as business analysis, financial analysis, business development, and legal service delivery.
Collaboration and Stakeholder Engagement:
- Collaborate with other firm functions to ensure a highly integrated data operation that supports business needs and drives innovation.
- Serve as the primary liaison between business units and other technical teams to ensure the data strategy aligns with enterprise goals across the entire enterprise.
- Communicate complex data science concepts and insights to non-technical stakeholders in a clear and actionable manner.
Legal and Compliance Awareness:
- Familiarity with legal industry-specific data requirements, such as E-Discovery processes, and compliance with regulatory standards (GDPR, HIPAA, etc.).
- International operational experience across geographic and regulatory environments for data.
Team Building and Mentorship:
- Define team roles and responsibilities, ensuring alignment with organizational objectives.
- Recruit, train, and mentor a diverse data team, including data managers, data scientists, data engineers, data analysts, and other roles as deemed appropriate.
- Serve as a direct supervisor and mentor to direct reports.
- Provide day-to-day supervision of direct reports, ensuring compliance with assigned work hours and monitoring for compliance with all firm and department policies. Manage staffing coverage, review and process time logs/time off requests.
- Support business professional development and continued educational opportunities.
- In collaboration with the immediate supervisor and HR, participate in hiring, performance appraisals, counseling, termination, and other employee lifecycle events.
- Foster a collaborative, innovative, and results-driven team culture.
- All other duties as assigned or required.
Education and Experience Information:
Required:
- Bachelor’s degree.
- 10+ years of experience in a directly applicable data-related role (., data research, data delivery, data operations, etc.) along with 5+ years of management experience in relevant roles with a proven track record of effective leadership.
- Experience in leading large-scale data initiatives, preferably within technology or highly regulated industries (., finance, healthcare).
Preferred:
- Strong understanding of the legal industry, particularly around legal tech systems, analytics, and legal operations.
- Strong understanding of modern data operations, including data lakes, data pipelines, and experience with complex data migrations.
- Experience in managing cross-functional projects involving engineering, data engineering, and operational business units.
- Knowledge and experience with distributed systems and organizations.
Competencies:
- Strong leadership experience in building, managing, and mentoring data science teams.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to translate complex technical concepts to legal professionals and senior executives.
- Ability to influence and collaborate with multiple stakeholders across various departments (legal, IS, etc.).
Salary Information:
The expected annual pay range for this position with a full-time schedule is $300,000 - $400,000. Please note that the final offer amount will be dependent on geographic location, applicable experience, and skillset of the candidate.
Benefits:
The law firm offers a competitive compensation and excellent benefits package and is committed to fair and equitable employment practices. A full range of elective benefits is provided, including medical, health savings account (with applicable medical plan), dental, vision, health and/or dependent care flexible spending accounts, pre-tax commuter benefits, life insurance, AD&D, long-term care coverage, backup care for children and/or adults, and other parental support benefits. In addition to elective benefit options, benefited employees receive firm-paid life insurance, AD&D, LTD, short-term medical benefits, as well as 25 days of Paid Time Off (“PTO”) and 10 paid holidays each year. Generous parental leave and fertility benefits are also provided. New employees will attend a detailed benefit orientation to learn more about the many benefits and resources available.
