Director of Data

The Opportunity: Join TopDog Law and Build Something Meaningful

This role is an opportunity to:

• Join a rapidly growing national firm at a formative stage
• Make a visible, measurable impact on a rapidly growing business
• Grow your skills, responsibility, and influence as the firm scales
• Work alongside high-caliber, mission-driven teammates who care deeply about doing great work

We are looking for people who don’t just want a job, they want purpose and impact.

What You’ll Do

In this role, you will be responsible for:

• 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

At TopDog Law, everyone is expected to think critically, communicate clearly, and take ownership of their work.

How This Role Drives the Business

As Director, Data, you will lead the strategy and evolution of TopDog Law’s data platform. This role is responsible for building reliable, well-governed data infrastructure that enables analytics, reporting, and decision-making across marketing, intake, operations, legal, and leadership.

You will define how data is ingested, modeled, and accessed across the organization, ensuring consistency, trust, and usability. You will lead and develop an existing team of data engineers while partnering closely with Product, Engineering, and business stakeholders to translate business questions into clear data structures and shared metrics. This is a hands-on leadership role that blends strategic direction with practical execution as the company continues to scale.

This role is critical to our success because it:

• Directly impacts [clients / revenue / case outcomes / team efficiency]
• Supports speed, quality, and consistency as we scale
• Helps protect and elevate the TopDog Law brand and client experience
• Strengthens the foundation needed to grow responsibly and sustainably

What Success Looks Like

Within your first 6–12 months, success in this role looks like:

• You consistently deliver on commitments with minimal oversight
• You proactively identify issues and propose solutions
• Your work raises the bar for quality, clarity, and follow-through
• You are viewed as a reliable, trusted partner by teammates and leaders
• You contribute positively to team energy, morale, and momentum

Qualifications

Required:

• 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

Nice to Have:

• Experience in a fast-growing or high-volume environment
• Comfort with ambiguity and evolving systems
• Experience in legal, professional services, or client-centric organizations

About TopDog Law

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