Director, CoCounsel Transactional Drafting

Summary:

As an employee at Thomson Reuters, you will shape and lead the global knowledge economy. Our technology drives global markets and helps professionals worldwide make decisions that matter.  Whether solving for today’s challenges or tomorrow’s aspirations, you will work with the industry’s brightest thinkers on diverse projects, creating next-generation solutions that deliver powerful results.   As the world’s leading provider of intelligent information, we want your unique perspective to create the solutions that advance our business—and your career. 

CoCounsel Drafting is hiring a Director of Transactional Drafting. After a successful product launch this summer, we seek a seasoned product leader to help us double down. CoCounsel Drafting is an end-to-end drafting solution that streamlines and improves the drafting process for legal professionals within Microsoft Word. It’s the latest set of capabilities available for CoCounsel, the first professional-grade GenAI assistant from Thomson Reuters.

About the Role:

The Director, Product Management will lead a team of Senior Product Managers and Product Managers across the CoCounsel Transactional Drafting Product team. The product team is a high-performing, global team with an ambitious roadmap ahead of us. We are looking for a strong people manager with product execution experience to lead the way. A successful candidate will have experience weighing and communicating tradeoffs across a complex product, and know how to ask probing questions, listen to customers, and help teams get to the right solution quickly. They work backward from customers, are connected to the details, and help the team break down strategies into executable phases and distinct features. They are transparent with their prioritization framework, welcome and incorporate feedback, and measure and effectively communicate the results of product investments to leaders.

As a Director, Product Management you will: 

• Build, manage and lead a world class team of product managers.  You will lead and inspire a team of product managers to define and deliver significant strategic initiatives while coordinating their activities to ensure that they meet key performance indicators (KPIs).

• Develop strong product intuition by interpreting and assessing customer problems, business needs, and opportunities and offering potential solutions.

• Build world-class capabilities and products by creating a vision for the product and maintaining the product roadmap while partnering closely with dev team, UX, and Labs to execute the roadmap and deliver efficiently. This includes serving as the customer voice for the engineering teams, prioritizing the product backlog based on customer and business value, using metrics to monitor and measure progress monitoring the market landscape and staying updated on industry trends to ensure the product remains competitive while addressing evolving customer needs

• Demonstrate leadership by taking ownership of a product, its performance and reliability, and delighting our clients with a positive experience. You will show that you can learn from your experiences, recover from setbacks, and effectively evangelize the product vision to colleagues. You will socialize with a wide variety of cross-functional stakeholders to align strategy, vision, and roadmaps

• Support CoCounsel Director of International and Commercial Strategy to successfully plan product launches by collaborating with product marketing, the development team, and the sales teams to develop go-to-market strategies, positioning, messaging, and pricing

About You:

In order to be successful in achieving these goals, you will be:

• Curious & Innovative, starting with an obsession for our customer's problems and needs and then working closely with customers, partners, and other Thomson Reuters colleagues to solve them in unique ways

• Agile with a strong sense of urgency and a desire to work in a fast-paced dynamic environment to deliver solutions against strict timelines, unafraid of failure

• An effective communicator who projects confidence and communicates concisely and clearly to management, peers, customers, and partners

Preferred Qualifications

• Product Management Leadership Role – 4+ years of people managing experience (required)

• 8+ years of Product Management experience

• Experience with AI products

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What's in it For You?

You will join our inclusive culture of world-class talent, where we are committed to your personal and professional growth through:

• Wellbeing: Comprehensive benefit plans; flexible and supportive benefits for work-life balance: flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days Off; work from another location for up to a total of 8 weeks in a year, 4 of those weeks can be out of the country and the remaining in the country, Headspace app subscription; retirement, savings, tuition reimbursement, and employee incentive programs; resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.

• Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.

• Learning & Development: LinkedIn Learning access; internal Talent Marketplace with opportunities to work on projects cross-company; Ten Thousand Coffees Thomson Reuters café networking.

• Social Impact: Ten employee-driven Business Resource Groups; two paid volunteer days annually; Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives for local and global impact.

• Purpose Driven Work: We have a superpower that we’ve never talked about with as much pride as we should – we are one of the only companies on the planet that helps its customers pursue justice, truth and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.

In the United States, Thomson Reuters offers a comprehensive benefits package to our employees. Our benefit package includes market competitive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance programs, as well as a competitive 401k plan with company match. In addition, Thomson Reuters offers market leading work life benefits with competitive vacation, sick and safe paid time off, paid holidays (including two company mental health days off), parental leave, sabbatical leave. These benefits meet or exceeds the requirements of paid time off in accordance with any applicable state or municipal laws. Finally, Thomson Reuters offers the following additional benefits: optional hospital, accident and sickness insurance paid 100% by the employee; optional life and AD&D insurance paid 100% by the employee; Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts; fitness reimbursement; access to Employee Assistance Program; Group Legal Identity Theft Protection benefit paid 100% by employee; access to 529 Plan; commuter benefits; Adoption & Surrogacy Assistance; Tuition Reimbursement; and access to Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

Thomson Reuters complies with local laws that require upfront disclosure of the expected pay range for a position. The base compensation range varies across locations. Eligible office location(s) for this role include one or more of the following: Eagan, MN; Ann Arbor, MI; Richmond, VA; Rochester, NY. The base compensation range for the role in any of those locations is $149,700 - $277,900. Chicago, IL; Frisco, TX; Houston, TX; fully remote location. For these locations and any eligible US locations not otherwise noted, including for fully remote location if applicable, the base compensation range for this role is $157,500 - $292,500. This role may also be eligible for an Annual Bonus based on a combination of enterprise and individual performance. Base pay is positioned within the range based on several factors including an individual’s knowledge, skills and experience with consideration given to internal equity. Base pay is one part of a comprehensive Total Reward program which also includes flexible and supportive benefits and other wellbeing programs.

This job posting will close 01/17/2025.

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