Assistant Director: Global Analytics Delivery

Overview

Mayer Brown is an international law firm positioned to represent the world’s major corporations, funds, and financial institutions in their most important and complex transactions and disputes. We are recognized by our clients as strategic partners with deep commercial instincts and a commitment to creatively anticipating their needs and delivering excellence in everything we do.

We are a collegial, collaborative firm where highly motivated individuals with an unwavering commitment to excellence receive the opportunity, support, and development they need to grow, thrive, and realize their greatest potential all while supporting the Firm’s client service principles of excellence, strategic partnership, commercial instinct, integrated strengths, innovation, and collaboration across our international firm.

 

If you thrive in a collaborative environment that values exceptional client service, initiative, professionalism, responsiveness, and adaptability, we invite you to consider joining our Information Technology department in our Chicago office as an Assistant Director: Global Analytics Delivery.

 

The Assistant Director: Global Analytics Delivery owns end-to-end delivery for the firm’s business intelligence, data science, and GenAI analytics solutions.  Reporting into Director: Global Data and Analytics, this role builds and delivers a prioritized roadmap in partnership with stakeholders across the firm, while leading a blended team of 8-10 BI and data science professionals.

The position ensures successful strategic outcomes through team leadership, technical oversight, stakeholder alignment, and disciplined portfolio management.  Starting from an established enterprise data strategy and a governed, modern Microsoft data platform, the role applies discipline to a prioritized queue of high-value analytics projects for both the business and practice of law. 

The successful candidate brings hands-on experience delivering programs that span both business intelligence and data science, working expertise in AI concepts and their practical application on a Microsoft-centered stack, including Fabric, Power Platform, and Databricks.  Success is measured on disciplined, quality, on-time delivery of impactful analytics solutions with demonstrable business value aligned to firm strategy.

Responsibilities

Essential Functions

• Lead, develop, and manage a blended team of 8-10 BI and data science professionals; set direction, manage workload, review performance, and ensure throughput and quality
• Build and own the analytics delivery roadmap: a prioritized, capacity driven queue of BI, data science, and AI-agent projects sequenced with stakeholders and the firm’s strategic programs to maximize business value
• Translate firm and senior-leadership priorities into scoped, estimated, committed work, matching the right technique to the right problem and making explicit trade-offs on scope, quality, and timeline; continuously update the portfolio as priorities, capacity, and platform capabilities evolve
• Own delivery cadence, prioritization, and quality for all business and practice facing analytics output, holding the team and stakeholders to standards, timelines, and strict adherence to scope
• In coordination with the Director and program managers, establish and continuously refine the delivery operating model, including intake, scoping, build, review, release, and adoption
• Define, track, and report delivery and value-realization metrics, including throughput, on-time performance, quality, adoption, and business impact, to IT and firm leadership
• Oversee data science research and proof-of-concept activity that enhances analytical capabilities and strengthens controls for AI agents, model output, and automated workflows
• Ensure delivered solutions comply with the firm's data governance, security, and AI controls, partnering with Enterprise Data, Information Governance and Information Security
• Serve as the point of accountability between the Analytics team and business leadership, practice groups, and operational functions; build and maintain trusted relationships with stakeholders
• Manage contractor and vendor resources supporting delivery, including scoping engagements, overseeing quality, and holding partners to delivery commitments
• Provide input to the Director on budget, headcount, tooling, and external spend for Analytics
• Perform other duties as assigned or required to meet Firm goals and objectives

Qualifications, Experience and Personal Attributes

Education/Training/Certifications:

• Required: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Business Analytics, or a related quantitative or technical field
• Preferred: Advanced degree in Computer Science, Dat