AI Editorial Senior Program Manager– AEM

Thomson Reuters Corp.; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 140,000 - 195,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible vacation

Mental Health Days

Headspace app

Retirement savings

Tuition reimbursement

Volunteer days off

Job summary

Thomson Reuters seeks a Senior Program Manager to lead editorial AI initiatives across CoCounsel Legal, Practical Law, and Westlaw in Asia and Emerging Markets. You will drive project roadmaps, oversee resources, and ensure timely, high-quality outcomes while coordinating with product, labs, technology and editorial teams.

You will manage gold data tests for AI evaluation and communicate progress to senior stakeholders, balancing priorities and driving continuous editorial improvements across

Qualifications

• Law degree from an accredited school.
• At least two years’ experience at a law firm or in-house legal team.
• Proven project management experience, ideally within editorial or AI technology contexts.
• Strong leadership skills with a strategic mindset.
• Excellent communication to articulate complex concepts clearly to various audiences.
• Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams, including technical and non-technical members.
• Comfortable managing relationships with senior stakeholders, including navigating competing priorities and difficult conversations.
• Continuous improvement mindset with a passion for leveraging AI in editorial processes.
• Ability and willingness to work flexibly across time zones, including North American and the Asia-Pacific region, as needed to support global stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead editorial program planning across CoCounsel Legal, Practical Law, and Westlaw by creating project roadmaps, overseeing resource planning, managing schedules, and ensuring timely delivery of high-quality outcomes.
• Manage the creation and maintenance of gold data tests supporting AEM AI evaluation initiatives.
• Communicate with leadership by providing regular reports and updates on progress toward deliverables.
• Facilitate effective communication and collaboration across diverse teams.
• Manage risk by proactively identifying potential project risks, developing comprehensive mitigation strategies, and addressing issues promptly to maintain project momentum and efficiency.
• Assure high quality by maintaining and troubleshooting deliverables, supporting testing and validation of AI outputs and coordinating feedback to product, engineering and data science partners, and implementing continuous improvement processes to enhance editorial workflows.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional collaboration

Risk management

Time management

Problem solving

Education

Law degree

Tools

CoCounsel Legal

Westlaw

AI tools

Job description

Job Description Thomson Reuters is seeking a dynamic and experienced Senior Program Manager to lead and drive key editorial initiatives that integrate cutting‑edge AI technologies into our customer‑facing products in Asia and Emerging Markets (AEM). This role is pivotal in ensuring that our AI editorial projects align with the company’s strategic objectives and are delivered with the highest standards of quality and efficiency. This role will work collaboratively with our global partners, including product, labs, technology, and editorial. The successful candidate will have a strong interest in AI technologies, excel in project planning, problem solving, time management, stakeholder communication, risk management, and quality assurance.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead editorial program planning across CoCounsel Legal, Practical Law, and Westlaw by creating project roadmaps, overseeing resource planning, managing schedules, and ensuring timely delivery of high‑quality outcomes.
• Manage the creation and maintenance of gold data tests supporting AEM AI evaluation initiatives.
• Communicate with leadership by providing regular reports and updates on progress toward deliverables.
• Facilitate effective communication and collaboration across diverse teams.
• Manage risk by proactively identifying potential project risks, developing comprehensive mitigation strategies, and addressing issues promptly to maintain project momentum and efficiency.
• Assure high quality by maintaining and troubleshooting deliverables, supporting testing and validation of AI outputs and coordinating feedback to product, engineering and data science partners, and implementing continuous improvement processes to enhance editorial workflows.

Required Qualifications

• Law degree from an accredited school.
• At least two years’ experience working at a law firm or in an in‑house legal team.
• Proven project management experience, ideally within editorial or AI technology contexts.
• Strong leadership skills with a strategic mindset.
• Excellent communication skills to articulate complex concepts clearly to various audiences.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with cross‑functional teams, including technical and non‑technical members.
• Comfortable managing relationships with senior stakeholders, including navigating competing priorities and difficult conversations.
• A continuous improvement mindset with a passion for leveraging AI in editorial processes.
• Ability and willingness to work flexibly across time zones, including North American and the Asia‑Pacific region, as needed to support global stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

• A good understanding of existing AI legal tools and how to use them.
• A good understanding of Westlaw and CoCounsel Legal, and their current AI solutions.
• Excellent problem‑solving skills with proven analytical skills.
• A proven ability to build relationships and to influence individuals to action.
• Adaptability and comfort working in a dynamic, fast‑paced environment.

What’s in it For You?

Hybrid Work Model

We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment for our office‑based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.

Flexibility & Work‑Life Balance

Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, empowering employees to achieve a better work‑life balance.

Career Development and Growth

By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow’s challenges and deliver real‑world solutions. Our Grow My Way programming and skills‑first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI‑enabled future.

Industry Competitive Benefits

We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company‑wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.

Culture

Globally recognized, award‑winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work‑life balance, and more. We live by our values: Obsess over our Customers, Compete to Win, Challenge (Y)our Thinking, Act Fast / Learn Fast, and Stronger Together.

Social Impact

Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro‑bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.

Making a Real‑World Impact

We are one of the few companies globally 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.

About Us

Thomson Reuters informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions. We serve professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media. Our products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data, intelligence, and solutions needed to make informed decisions, and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice, truth, and transparency. Reuters, part of Thomson Reuters, is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news. We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness, and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them.

Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward. As a global business, we rely on the unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences of all employees to deliver on our business 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 Employer providing a drug‑free workplace. We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.

More information about Thomson Reuters can be found on thomsonreuters.com. At Thomson Reuters, we’re not riding the AI wave — we’re reshaping the future of professional work across law, tax, compliance, and journalism. Here, you will collaborate with smart, ambitious people who thrive on solving complex problems, delivering market‑leading solutions, and innovating with curiosity and care.

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