Director of Legal, Data Governance & Innovation

Brookfield; New York (NY); On-site; USD 250,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Brookfield is seeking a senior legal operations professional to manage the Investment Committee process and the Data Governance program for its Real Estate Group. The role spans transaction reviews, governance application, and cross-functional collaboration with investment, legal, finance, and technology teams.

You will lead AI-enabled process improvements, update governance precedents, and develop training for global teams while ensuring data integrity and compliant operations across regions.

Qualifications

• J.D. and active membership in at least one U.S. state bar.
• Four+ years of legal experience in leading law firm, investment firm, or comparable organization.
• Demonstrated experience supporting complex processes and coordinating stakeholders across legal, investment, operations, and technology functions.
• Experience with complex transactions, corporate and legal entity structures, and related documentation.
• Experience with private equity, M&A, real estate, funds, financing, or other complex transactional matters preferred.
• Strong judgment and the ability to interpret and apply policies to complex or novel circumstances.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across geographies, functions, and levels of seniority.
• Highly organized and comfortable managing multiple concurrent, deadline-driven workstreams.
• Strong interest in legal operations, data governance, and the application of AI or automation to business processes.

Responsibilities

• Own the Investment Committee process from transaction submission through classification, routing, committee review, and follow-up.
• Review transactions and advise deal teams on the application of governance requirements and internal data and authority policies.
• Oversee the team responsible for initial transaction reviews, ensuring submissions are accurate, complete, and appropriately reviewed before committee consideration.
• Drive each committee review cycle, including agenda development, issue resolution, stakeholder coordination, and post-committee follow-up.
• Translate committee decisions and recurring issues into practical guidance, precedents, and training for investment and support teams globally.
• Own day-to-day operations of the data governance program, ensuring that transaction, investment, property, and other data is created and maintained in accordance with the firm’s data model.
• Resolve complex questions regarding the application of the data model to transactions, ownership structures, investment vehicles, and other business arrangements.
• Evaluate gaps or ambiguities in the data model and recommend changes to definitions, attributes, and governance standards as the business evolves.
• Serve as an escalation point for complex master-data matters, partnering with investment, legal, finance, technology, and operations teams to determine appropriate outcomes.
• Maintain a knowledge base of key decisions, interpretations, precedents, and complex scenarios.
• Identify opportunities to redesign and automate relevant legal, governance, and investment workflows using AI, automation, analytics, and other technology.
• Lead the evaluation and implementation of approved enhancements, working with business and technology teams to translate operational problems into scalable solutions.
• Analyze recurring governance and workflow issues and recommend changes to policies, processes, systems, and controls.
• Support enterprise risk management matters, including investment-related risk analysis, policy development, transaction negotiation on a limited basis, and other legal analysis, as needed.
• Review commercial contracts as needed.
• Provide targeted legal and regulatory support related to the governance programs and other global real estate matters, as needed.

Skills

Strong judgment

Excellent written and verbal comms

Cross-functional collaboration

Highly organized

Interest in legal ops, data governance

Education

J.D. and state bar admission

Job description

Brookfield is seeking a senior legal operations professional to manage the Investment Committee process and the Data Governance program for its Real Estate Group. The role spans transaction reviews, governance application, and cross-functional collaboration with investment, legal, finance, and technology teams.

You will lead AI-enabled process improvements, update governance precedents, and develop training for global teams while ensuring data integrity and compliant operations across regions.