Data Governance Lead

Overview

Cleary Gottlieb is a pioneer in globalizing the legal profession. We have 14 offices in major financial centers around the world, but we operate as a single, integrated global partnership and not as a U.S. firm with a network of overseas locations. The firm employs approximately 1,100 lawyers from more than 50 countries.

Since 1946 our lawyers and staff have worked across practices, industries, jurisdictions, and continents to provide clients with simple, actionable approaches to their most complex legal and business challenges, whether domestic or international. We support every client relationship with intellectual agility, commercial acumen, and a human touch.

Cleary Gottlieb is seeking a Data Governance Lead to help establish, implement, and mature the Firm’s global data governance practice. Reporting to the Director of Data Strategy and Governance, this role will translate the Firm’s data governance strategy into an effective operating model, practical standards, clearly defined decision rights, and measurable improvements in the quality, consistency, understanding, and governance of Firm data.

The Data Governance Lead will serve as the operational owner of the Firm’s data governance framework and processes. The role will establish how data governance operates across the Firm, including the Data Owner and Data Steward model, governance forums and decision processes, data quality methodology, metadata and lineage practices, issue management and escalation,…