Technical Project Manager

Ropes & Gray is a preeminent global law firm ranked in the top three on The American Lawyer's A-List for eight consecutive years and #1 on Law.com's UK A-List twice in the past three years. The firm has approximately 2,500 lawyers and professionals serving clients in major centers of business, finance, technology, and government across the globe. Recognized for leading practices in asset management, private equity, M&A, finance, real estate, tax, antitrust, life sciences, health care, intellectual property, litigation & enforcement, privacy & cybersecurity, and business restructuring.

About the role

The Business Intelligence Project Leader will play a critical leadership role within the firm’s Enterprise Data & Reporting function. This individual will partner closely with business stakeholders, data engineering, and BI development teams to lead reporting and analytics initiatives from intake through delivery and adoption. The role combines business analysis, solution design, and project leadership, with end-to-end ownership of assigned data and reporting initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary lead for assigned BI/reporting initiatives from concept through delivery, driving requirements gathering, scope definition, prioritization, and timeline management.
• Coordinate across Data Engineering, BI Developers, Architects, and business stakeholders; proactively manage risks, dependencies, and competing priorities.
• Provide regular status reporting and executive-ready updates.
• Understand data models/schemas and perform hands-on data analysis using toolsets such as SQL.
• Ensure solutions align with enterprise data strategy and governance standards.
• Partner with business sponsors to understand short- and long-term needs and translate business objectives into clear, structured functional requirements.
• Create documentation including BRDs, user stories, process flows, and wireframes; conduct hands-on data analysis to validate business rules and logic.
• Define KPIs, metrics, and reporting frameworks aligned to business goals.
• Support evolution and enhancement of existing dashboards and reporting assets.

Requirements

• 5+ years of hands-on experience capturing business requirements and transforming them into data and reporting solutions.
• 3–5+ years leading data/reporting initiatives or acting as project lead for BI solutions.
• Familiarity with MicroStrategy or similar BI tools (Power BI, Tableau).
• Proven ability to translate complex business requirements into scalable BI solutions.
• Strong organizational and project management skills; ability to manage multiple initiatives simultaneously.
• Experience preparing executive-level reporting and communicating with senior leadership.
• Experience in the Legal and/or Financial Services industry strongly preferred.
• Understanding of BI governance, reporting standards, and data stewardship principles.

Pay

The anticipated pay range for this role is listed below and represents the firm’s good faith and reasonable estimate of the starting salary range at the time of posting. The actual offered rate will be determined based on qualifications, experience, geographic location, education, external market data, and internal equity. This role is also eligible for a discretionary bonus based on performance.

• Boston: $117,200 - $178,700
• New York: $127,900 - $195,000

Schedule

This position requires hybrid on-site presence as an essential function of the role. Consistent and predictable on-site presence is required for ongoing business continuity, professional development, and effective collaboration with colleagues and management.