Director of Data
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Director of Data responsible for building data infrastructure at TopDog Law. Leading data strategy, team management, and ensuring data governance as the firm scales.
Responsibilities:
- Own the company’s data strategy and roadmap, aligned to business priorities
- Lead, mentor, and develop an existing team of data engineers
- Build and evolve the data platform, including ingestion pipelines, data models, and analytics foundations
- Define canonical data models, metrics, and shared business definitions
- Establish standards for data quality, reliability, and monitoring
- Partner with Product and Engineering to embed data into product and operational workflows
- Enable analytics and reporting for stakeholders across the business
- Define governance practices for data access, usage, and consistency
- Identify and mitigate data-related risk as scale and complexity increase
Requirements:
- 8 or more years of experience in data engineering, analytics, or data platform roles
- Experience leading and developing data engineering teams
- Strong understanding of data modeling, ETL or ELT pipelines, and analytics systems
- Proven ability to define metrics and shared data semantics in partnership with business stakeholders
- Experience building reliable, scalable data systems in growing organizations
- Ability to balance hands-on technical work with leadership and strategic thinking
- Strong communication skills and comfort working across engineering, product, and business teams
- Experience in regulated or data-sensitive environments is a plus
- Strong communication skills—written and verbal
- Ability to think critically, prioritize effectively, and execute with speed
Benefits:
- Health insurance
- 401(k) matching
- Flexible work hours
- Paid time off
- Remote work options


















