Senior Product Manager

Summary:

Practical Law is the market-leading provider of practice guidance for legal users. We are a global team that develops products and solutions that bring the expertise of our 600+ attorney editors to our customers by delivering that expertise throughout our native applications and tools as well as fueling other TR products that rely on subject matter expertise. Our mission is to enable our customers to deliver high-quality, differentiated legal services by getting them from discovery to analysis to work product faster. A key component of delivering these solutions is developing AI skills and enabled features that leverage Practical Law's content and editor subject matter expertise.

Thomson Reuters leads at the intersection of content and technology with trusted data, workflow automation, and AI. TR has a bold vision to be the leader in AI-powered, content-driven technology, and the Senior Product Manager, Practical Law will work closely with colleagues from Product, Compliance, Engineering, TR Labs, and Design teams who are already dedicated to delivering on this mission. Teams are working closely with customers to create a product experience that is unmatched in the market today. In this role, you will work with leaders and stakeholders from these teams in refining our product roadmap, while also playing a hands-on role in leading cross-functional distributed product teams through product discovery and delivery.

About the Role

The Senior Product Manager, Practical Law will own the vision, direction, and priorities for the feature or product area they are responsible for, managing the product life cycle from strategic planning to tactical execution. The Sr. PM, Practical Law will have a strong technical background and a firm understanding of AI and ML technologies and how to develop solutions that build upon Practical Law content and expertise to solve customer problems. They will be comfortable with ambiguity and the need to respond to a rapidly evolving market. The Sr. PM, Practical Law will work closely with colleagues in editorial, as well as other product groups, to deliver solutions of the highest quality, accuracy, and customer value. The Sr. PM, Practical Law will be able to communicate customer needs crisply and succinctly across the organization and work with design and engineering teams to translate those needs into clear priorities, compelling roadmaps, and high-impact, innovative solutions. The balance between tactical execution and strategic vision is critical at this level as is the ability to coordinate across multiple functions simultaneously.

As a Senior Product Manager, you will find that no two days or hours are alike - from working on product strategy to assessing feature performance metrics to leading customer interactions to writing stories and user acceptance criteria, roadmap planning, and more. You will be accountable to make sure we maximize customer and business value using Practical Law guidance and expertise.

As a Senior Product Manager, you will:

1. Develop strong product intuition by interpreting and assessing customer problems, business needs, and opportunities and offering potential solutions with a moderate level of guidance and direction.
2. Build world-class capabilities and products by creating a vision for the product maintaining the product roadmap for your features and partnering closely with the dev team, UX, and other partners to execute the roadmap and deliver efficiently. This includes defining your product or feature backlog based on customer and business value and using metrics to monitor and measure progress.
3. Demonstrate leadership by taking extreme ownership of a feature/product, its performance and reliability, and delighting our clients with a positive experience as it is deployed in end-to-end product experiences. You will show that you can learn from your experiences, recover from setbacks, and effectively evangelize the product vision to colleagues.
4. You will be a well-rounded AI expert for our teams by staying on the cutting edge of AI and technology development, inspiring teams to ideate and experiment with applying AI, and sharing your unique perspective on how AI can propel the legal profession through writing, blogging, and shareouts with teams and customers.

About You

To be successful in achieving these goals, you will be:

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. An effective communicator who projects confidence and communicates concisely and clearly to management, peers, customers, and partners.

Foundational Skills

Successful Senior Product Manager (SPM) candidates will exhibit and show the aspiration to further develop the following skills:

• Problem-Solving
• Leadership
• Technical
• Design Thinking
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Communication
• Effective Execution

Preferred Qualifications

• Experienced Product Management professional.
• Strong technical background, with a degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience, required.
• JD degree or strong legal background and understanding of legal use cases developed through education and/or work experience preferred.
• Demonstrated understanding of prompt engineering and other strategies, such as content optimization and taxonomy utilization, for purposes of developing AI-driven skills or features preferred.
• Understanding of legal use cases and content preferred.
• 4+ years of Product Management or equivalent experience.
• Experience developing and delivering solutions that employ AI, ML, Gen AI and related tech is required.

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:

• Hybrid Work Model: We've adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.
• 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 cafe 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 exceed the requirements of paid time off in accordance with any applicable state or municipal laws.

Finally, Thomson Reuters complies with local laws that require upfront disclosure of the expected pay range for a position. The location(s) for this role include one or more of the following metro locations: Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco, Washington, DC. The base compensation range for the role in any of those locations is $132,400 - $246,000. The location(s) for this role include one or more of the following states: KS, MI, MN, NY, VA. The base compensation range for the role in any of those locations is $114,400 - $212,400. The base compensation range in other locations may vary. 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.

Accessibility

As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.