Practice Innovation Advisor- Legal Professionals

Thomson Reuters Foundation; New York (NY); On-site; USD 137,000 - 255,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible vacation

Mental Health Days

Headspace access

Retirement savings

Tuition reimbursement

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Thomson Reuters is building a senior advisory function to support strategic law firm accounts. The Practice Innovation Advisor will engage senior firm leadership on AI strategy, transformation roadmap, and operating model design, operating across the full client lifecycle from pre-sale to post-sale.

The role emphasizes executive relationships over demos, insights into legal practice dynamics, and collaboration with product and professional services to articulate customer needs and market

Qualifications

• 5+ years of innovation experience in a law firm environment.
• Understanding of how law firm partnerships and governance decisions work.
• Executive communication skills: effective one-on-one with partners and in committees.
• Collaborative by nature, working with CSMs, Editors, AI Architects, engineers, and professional services.

Responsibilities

• Serve as senior executive advisor for a portfolio of strategic law firm accounts.
• Build trusted relationships with firm leadership to enable strategic technology decisions.
• Partner with Account Executives across the full sales and relationship lifecycle, providing credibility.
• Develop and deliver a point of view on how AI reshapes economics and operating models in law firms.
• Represent Thomson Reuters at senior legal industry forums and client events.

Skills

Innovation experience

Law firm exposure

Executive communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Westlaw

CoCounsel

Practical Law

Job description

Job Description Thomson Reuters is building a new senior advisory function to serve our most strategic law firm accounts. Practice Innovation Advisor is a client-facing role operating at the intersection of AI strategy, technology transformation, and the business of law. This person engages senior firm leadership to help them think through how AI changes the way their organizations operate, compete, and deliver value — and works across the full client lifecycle from pre-sale through post-sale to ensure Thomson Reuters is positioned as an indispensable strategic partner. This is a peer advisory role. Its credibility depends entirely on the depth of experience the person brings from inside the legal profession. The role is not about product demos or adoption metrics — it is about executive relationships and strategic counsel at the highest level of the firm.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the senior executive advisor for a portfolio of strategic law firm accounts, engaging firm leadership — Managing Partner, CIO, CKO, COO — on AI strategy, transformation roadmap, and operating model design.
• Build trusted, peer-level relationships with firm leadership that give Thomson Reuters a seat at the table when strategic technology decisions are being made.
• Partner with the Account Executive across the full sales and relationship lifecycle — from pre-sale and close through post-sale — providing the executive credibility and strategic altitude that enables the broader account team to operate more effectively.
• Develop and deliver a clear, informed point of view on how AI is reshaping the economics and operating models of law firms — grounded enough to hold up in a partners' committee conversation.
• Partner and maintain dotted line relationships to Product Organization to deeply understand our product roadmap, feature development and upcoming launches to best articulate back to customers.
• Surface executive-level insight back to TR product and business leadership on where firms are investing, what is blocking AI adoption, and what senior leaders need that the market is not yet providing.
• Represent Thomson Reuters at senior legal industry forums, client roundtables, and executive events where firm-level credibility is the prerequisite for the room.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of innovation experience, with meaningful time inside a law firm environment that mirrors the clients you will serve.
• Practical understanding of how law firm partnership structures work — what drives partner adoption, how governance decisions get made, and where technology change efforts stall.
• Executive communication skills: effective one-on-one with a skeptical partner and equally effective in a structured committee presentation.
• Collaborative by nature — you will work alongside CSMs, Practical Law Editors, AI Solutions Architects, Forward Deployed Engineers, and Professional Services, each owning a distinct part of the client relationship.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience as a senior technology, innovation, or transformation leader inside a major law firm — such as a Director or Senior Director of Legal Technology, Innovation, or Knowledge Management at an AmLaw 200 or equivalent global firm.
• You have operated at a level where you shaped firm strategy and built executive buy-in.
• A grounded point of view on how AI changes legal staffing, pricing, client delivery, and competitive positioning — developed through direct experience, not observation.
• Fluency in the legal technology landscape, including Westlaw, CoCounsel, Practical Law, and how they fit into firm-wide technology strategy.
• Ability to operate credibly with firm leadership without a commercial agenda — you will not carry a quota, but your relationships will directly influence retention and growth.

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

• flexible vacation
• two company-wide Mental Health Days off
• access to the Headspace app
• retirement savings
• tuition reimbursement
• employee incentive programs
• resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing
• 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
• access to Employee Stock Purchase Plan

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.

The base compensation range varies across locations. For any eligible US locations, unless otherwise noted, the base compensation range for this role is $137,200 USD - $254,800 USD. 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 role may also be eligible for an Annual Bonus based on a combination of enterprise and individual performance.

This job posting will close 12/31/2026.

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.

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