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This role leads the Firm's consolidation of disparate data warehouses into a single trusted source and the delivery of entity-focused data 360s for Matter, Lawyer, and Client, giving dashboards and applications one source of truth. The role also manages the product roadmap, leads a team of Product Managers, and partners with Engineering, Governance, Finance, Marketing, HR, and other functions to turn data into a reusable, high-value asset that supports innovation, automation, and informed decision-making across the Firm.\n\nDuties & Responsibilities:\nLead the consolidation of disparate data warehouses into a single trusted source, establishing the governed foundation for enterprise dashboards, applications, and AI initiatives.\nDrive the design and delivery of entity-focused data 360s for Matter, Lawyer, and Client, providing a consistent, trusted view of each entity across the Firm's dashboards and applications.\nContribute to the long-term vision for the Firm's enterprise data ecosystem, advancing unification, speed to insight, operational efficiency, and business growth.\nTranslate strategic priorities into an actionable roadmap that accelerates data maturity and readiness for advanced analytics and AI initiatives.\nManage and prioritize the enterprise data product backlog to ensure alignment with the strategic roadmap and the Firm's value proposition.\nLead, mentor, and develop a team of Product Managers, setting clear expectations, recognizing strong performance, and fostering a culture of collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement.\nCollaborate with teams across the Firm to maintain an integrated view of program and portfolio activities, and manage intake, prioritization, and resourcing for assigned product areas.\nPartner with stakeholders to understand their data, reporting, and insight needs, and refine ambiguous or complex requests into clear, solvable data problems.\nMaintain, rationalize, and optimize the inventory of enterprise reports, dashboards, and visualizations to ensure they are accurate, relevant, and aligned to business goals.\nPrepare presentations and communications for senior and executive leadership, including business cases, program updates, roadmaps, and OKR progress, and communicate product direction, decisions, and progress to stakeholders to ensure alignment and transparency.\n\nEducation and Experience: \nRequired:\nBachelor's degree in Accounting/Finance, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.\nA minimum of 10 years of experience building and implementing data products, including at least 3 years in a leadership or team lead capacity.\nExperience working across product and engineering teams to build scalable data capabilities that deliver measurable business impact.\nExperience leading the consolidation of disparate data sources or warehouses into a centralized, governed platform and delivering entity-based data models that serve as a trusted source for reporting and applications.\nSolid understanding of data-as-a-product principles, metadata management, and modern data platform concepts.\nSolid understanding of data management concepts, tools, and technologies, including governance, quality, and lifecycle management best practices.\nDemonstrated ability to lead work streams across multiple teams and to coach and develop team members.\nStrong communication and stakeholder management skills, including the ability to articulate a clear vision, influence senior stakeholders, and create alignment amid complexity.\nExperience contributing to enterprise-wide transformation efforts in large-scale, matrixed environments.\nAbility to navigate ambiguity, manage multiple priorities, and deliver outcomes in fast-paced environments while maintaining confidentiality and exercising sound judgment.\n\nPreferred:\nMaster's degree in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.\nLaw firm or professional services industry experience.\nExperience working with agile and iterative delivery methodologies.\nOther Skills and Abilities:\nThe following will also be required of the successful candidate:\nStrong organizational skills\nStrong attention to detail\nGood judgment\nStrong interpersonal communication skills\nStrong analytical and problem-solving skills\nAble to work harmoniously and effectively with others\nAble to preserve confidentiality and exercise discretion\nAble to work under pressure\nAble to manage multiple projects with competing deadlines and priorities\n#LI-Hybrid\nThe target salary range for this role is:\n$185,200 - $264,000 if located in Illinois.Salaries vary by location and are based on numerous factors, including, but not limited to, the relevant market, skills, experience, and education of the selected candidate. Our compensation package also includes bonus eligibility and a comprehensive benefits program. Benefits information can be found at Sidley.com/Benefits.\nTo perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform the Duties and Responsibilities above satisfactorily and meet the requirements. The requirements listed above are representative of the minimum knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations will be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job. If you need such an accommodation, please email  (current employees should contact Human Resources).\nSidley Austin LLP is an Equal Opportunity Employer.","description_format":"text","description_chars":5667,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":10,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Legal Services"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-11-10T03:31:09Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":1,"expected_fill_days":50,"reasons":["conf:2","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-11-10T05:34:20Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":264000,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/sidley-product-management-associate-director-data-solutions","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/sidley-product-management-associate-director-data-solutions.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-10T05:34:20Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":12958,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-11T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":15213},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=15213"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fsidley-product-management-associate-director-data-solutions"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":2,"usd":0.2},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fsidley-product-management-associate-director-data-solutions"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fsidley-product-management-associate-director-data-solutions"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/sidley-product-management-associate-director-data-solutions\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fsidley-product-management-associate-director-data-solutions"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":4001110}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"sidley.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":4001110},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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