Director of Data Products

Director of Data Products Cooley AI is seeking a Director of Products to join the Innovation team.

Cooley AI is the wholly-owned subsidiary of Cooley LLP. The frontier development arm of the leading technology law firm in the world. Our mission is to bring the best-in-class practices from the technology field into the legal domain to help lead our firm and the legal industry into the AI era. All employees of Cooley AI are employees of Cooley and are seconded to Cooley AI.

As a leading technology law firm, Cooley is determined to become a leader in the digital practice of law. The Director of Data Products is a leadership role responsible for building, leading, and delivering data products that turn the Northstar Lakehouse into value the firm can use. This role leads a multi-track team spanning AI-powered application engineering, technical data analysis, and business reporting and analytics, translating the firm’s legal intelligence and practice of law ambitions into data products that attorneys, business professionals, and firm leadership can trust and consume.

This role steps into an active, well-resourced program, with platform foundations already live and Silver layer structures underway, and owns the product roadmap end to end in close partnership with the Director of Data. The Director is responsible for bringing strong delivery leadership and product judgment, building a high-performing team, and shipping data products that matter.

Data Products Leadership & Team Development:
Lead and develop the Data Products function across three tracks: application engineering, technical data analysis, and business reporting and analytics.

Build a high-performing, accountable team through clear expectations and consistent feedback.

Provide direct leadership to the team and as the function matures and the application engineering track grows, make deliberate decisions regarding introducing a management layer beneath the Director.

Develop each track lead as a capable, independent leader within their domain and invest in team management and technical capabilities.

Partner with the Director of Data on function strategy, product roadmap, hiring sequencing, and the long-term capability development of the Data Products team as the Northstar Lakehouse transitions from build phase to a platform serving active legal intelligence and analytics products.

Build and maintain a delivery culture across the Data Products function, where squads ship what they commit to, quality is non-negotiable, and every data product delivered is something the firm can trust.

Serve as direct supervisor and mentor to direct reports.

Provide day-to-day supervision of direct reports, ensure compliance with assigned work hours and monitor 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 immediate supervisor and central HR, participate in hiring, performance appraisals, counseling, termination and other employee lifecycle events.

Product Roadmap & Delivery Ownership:
In partnership with the Director of Data, own the full product roadmap, inheriting an active program with platform momentum, a developing semantic layer, and established Data Domain Squad delivery patterns across the Northstar Lakehouse build.

Translate legal intelligence, analytics, and practice of law product requirements that come through the Director of Data and the Intelligence & Client Services function into a clear, prioritized product roadmap.

Own the delivery cadence of the Data Products function within the squad-based EPIC delivery model.

Ensure Agile ceremonies are effective, sprint commitments are realistic and met, and the team is unblocked and productive across active squads.

Drive the gold layer product strategy across the Data Vault Business Vault consumption layer serving legal intelligence, competitive intelligence, and AI-powered legal products, and the 3NF relational reporting layer serving financial reporting and billing analytics from 3E.

Maintain a clear product backlog that reflects firm priorities, platform dependencies, and team capacity.

Make hard prioritization decisions transparently and communicate clearly with stakeholders and the team.

Define and maintain product quality standards for every data product the function ships, ensuring data accuracy,…