Senior Manager of Data Products

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Job Summary:

Ropes & Gray is a preeminent global law firm known for its leading practices across various sectors. The Senior Manager of Data Products is responsible for shaping and delivering enterprise-wide data assets that drive business operations and strategic initiatives, while also mentoring a high-performing team and ensuring alignment with business priorities.

Responsibilities:

• Provide strategic leadership and vision for the design, implementation, and evolution of enterprise data products, including curated datasets, semantic layers, and stewardship tools that support trusted data use across the organization.

• Own and communicate a multi-year data product vision and roadmap in partnership with executive stakeholders, ensuring alignment with enterprise goals and processes.

• Establish and manage transparent intake and prioritization processes for data product requests, proactively balancing scope, resources, and timelines across multiple teams.

• Drive effective project execution and triage, ensuring timely resolution of blockers, consistent follow-through, and successful delivery of data solutions at scale.

• Champion modern data development practices (e.g., dbt, CI/CD, version control, metadata-driven pipelines) to increase efficiency, quality, and adoption of data products.

• Promote and enforce strong adherence to data governance principles, including definitions, quality standards, and lineage tracking, across the enterprise.

• Cultivate a culture of critical thinking, realistic planning, and risk-awareness, enabling teams to anticipate challenges and adapt effectively.

• Mentor, coach, and develop future leaders by investing in their growth, encouraging ownership, and providing opportunities for leadership and development across teams.

• Escalate resource constraints or competing priorities early, and strategically manage time, talent, and tooling to maintain momentum and quality across the enterprise.

• Lead change management efforts to drive adoption of data products and governance practices throughout the organization.

• Collaborate continuously with governance, BI, and data infrastructure teams to improve discoverability, usability, and trust in enterprise data products.

• Present and communicate data product strategy, progress, and impact to executive leadership and other senior stakeholders.

Qualifications:

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Information Systems, or a related field

• 10 years of experience in data analytics, data modeling, or business intelligence environments

• 6 years of experience in a management or team lead role with demonstrated ownership of data products or platforms, including cross-functional leadership

• Proven track record of delivering scalable data products in both on-prem and cloud-based environments, with enterprise-level impact

• Hands-on expertise in SQL, dbt, and analytics tooling; experience with agile methodologies and product lifecycle management

• Exceptional communication and negotiation skills, with experience aligning technical work with strategic business objectives and presenting to executive leadership

• Ability to manage multiple priorities across teams and initiatives with a proactive, organized, and strategic approach

Preferred:

• advanced degree preferred

Company:

Ropes & Gray, a preeminent, global law firm, has been ranked in the top-three on The American Lawyer's prestigious "A-List" for eight consecutive years and listed on Law.com’s UK “A-List” for three years in a row. Founded in 1865, the company is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, with a team of 1001-5000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage. Ropes & Gray LLP has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships.