Director, AI Specialty Sales

Thomson Reuters; Eagan (MN); On-site; USD 256,000 - 475,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flex My Way

Grow My Way

Industry benefits

Culture & inclusion

Social impact

Real-world impact

Job summary

Thomson Reuters is seeking a Director of AI Specialty Sales for Small Law to drive revenue growth and adoption of AI solutions, including CoCounsel Legal. You will lead a specialized sales team, align cross-functional partners, and scale go-to-market motions across Sales, Product, Marketing, CS, and Partnerships.

This role requires 8+ years in sales leadership, strategic influence, and strong executive engagement.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of sales experience including leadership of high-performing sales teams.
• Demonstrated success building and executing growth strategies.
• Experience leading complex cross-functional initiatives.
• Strong forecasting, pipeline management, sales coaching, and operational leadership skills.
• Ability to influence senior leaders and drive alignment across multiple functions.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and executive engagement skills.
• Experience navigating fast-moving technology markets.

Responsibilities

• Lead AI revenue growth
• Own the growth strategy for CoCounsel Legal and other AI solutions across Small Law, leading the AI Specialty Sales and Partnership & Alliance Sales teams.
• Deliver revenue, pipeline, adoption, and market share goals, growing AI trial volume and conversion.
• Build and lead a high-performing team
• Recruit, coach, and retain top AI sellers and leaders, setting clear goals and operating rhythms that build accountability and continuous improvement.
• Develop deep expertise in legal AI, customer workflows, and competitive positioning.
• Drive AI go-to-market execution
• Align priorities across Sales, Product, Marketing, Customer Success, RevOps, Partnerships, and Enablement, and build co-sell motions that complement existing coverage.
• Coordinate the customer journey from trial through expansion, creating scalable programs and processes.
• Advance AI enablement and market leadership
• Build AI and competitive readiness across the sales organization, with Enablement and Product Marketing, and turn market insights into clear seller actions.
• Represent Thomson Reuters as an AI thought leader with customers, partners, and the legal community.
• Lead strategic influence programs
• Lead influencer programs, including Bar Alliance and professional association relationships, and expand the partner ecosystem to grow partner-sourced and partner-influenced opportunities.
• Strengthen Thomson Reuters’ visibility and competitive position with Marketing and Partnerships

Skills

Sales leadership

Forecasting

Pipeline management

Cross-functional

Executive engagement

Strategic influence

Communication

AI knowledge

Channel partnerships

Education

MBA

JD

Job description

Director, AI Specialty Sales - Small Law

Location: United States of America, Eagan, Minnesota, United States of America, Frisco, Texas, United States of America, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Remote Type: Remote

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

The Director, AI Specialty Sales leads the Small Law strategy for AI adoption, revenue growth, and customer acquisition. This leader owns the go-to-market approach for CoCounsel Legal and other AI solutions, working across sales, partnerships, and the broader Legal Professionals organization.

The role leads a specialty sales team that helps law firms evaluate, purchase, adopt, and realize value from legal AI. It connects Sales, Product, Marketing, Customer Success, Partnerships, and Enablement to create a consistent customer experience and accelerate growth.

Success requires a leader who can scale effective sales motions, strengthen the partnership ecosystem, translate competitive insights into action, and build a highperforming team.

Key Responsibilities

Lead AI revenue growth

• Own the growth strategy for CoCounsel Legal and other AI solutions across Small Law, leading the AI Specialty Sales and Partnership & Alliance Sales teams.
• Deliver revenue, pipeline, adoption, and market share goals, growing AI trial volume and conversion.

Build and lead a high-performing team

• Recruit, coach, and retain top AI sellers and leaders, setting clear goals and operating rhythms that build accountability and continuous improvement.
• Develop deep expertise in legal AI, customer workflows, and competitive positioning.

Drive AI go-to-market execution

• Align priorities across Sales, Product, Marketing, Customer Success, RevOps, Partnerships, and Enablement, and build co-sell motions that complement existing coverage.
• Coordinate the customer journey from trial through expansion, creating scalable programs and processes.

Advance AI enablement and market leadership

• Build AI and competitive readiness across the sales organization, with Enablement and Product Marketing, and turn market insights into clear seller actions.
• Represent Thomson Reuters as an AI thought leader with customers, partners, and the legal community.

Lead strategic influence programs

• Lead influencer programs, including Bar Alliance and professional association relationships, and expand the partner ecosystem to grow partner-sourced and partner-influenced opportunities.
• Strengthen Thomson Reuters’ visibility and competitive position with Marketing and Partnerships

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of sales experience, including multiple years leading high-performing sales teams
• Demonstrated success building and executing growth strategies
• Experience leading complex cross-functional initiatives
• Strong forecasting, pipeline management, sales coaching, and operational leadership skills
• Ability to influence senior leaders and drive alignment across multiple functions
• Excellent communication, presentation, and executive engagement skills
• Experience navigating fast-moving technology markets

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience selling AI, SaaS, legal technology, or productivity solutions
• Knowledge of the legal market and legal professional workflows
• Experience working with channel, alliance, or partnership ecosystems
• Experience leading customer adoption and change-management initiatives
• MBA, JD, or equivalent business leadership experience

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What’s in it For You?

• 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.

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 target total cash compensation range varies across locations. For any eligible US locations, unless otherwise noted, the target total cash compensation range for this role is $255,500 USD - $474,500 USD. 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 and any target sales incentive are part of a comprehensive Total Reward program which also includes flexible and supportive benefits and other wellbeing programs. Target total cash compensation ranges are inclusive of both base pay and any target sales incentive. This job posting will close 11/15/2026.

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