Principal AI Transformation Consultant, Professional Services

Thomson Reuters Foundation; Eagan (MN); Remote; USD 100,000 - 186,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flex My Way

Grow My Way

Mental Health Days (two company-wide)

Headspace app access

Tuition reimbursement

401k plan

Job summary

Thomson Reuters seeks a Principal AI Transformation Consultant to lead AI-enabled workflow redesign and value realization for large client teams, embedding with sales, AI engineers, enablement, and product groups from first contact through rollout.

You’ll guide senior leaders on workforce changes, adoption strategies, and measurable outcomes, leveraging broad industry and regulatory knowledge and a strong consulting background in complex technology delivery.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Law, Business, Organizational Transformation, Computer Science, or a related field; advanced degree or relevant certifications preferred.
• 10+ years in professional services, management consulting, transformation consulting, or complex AI or enterprise‑technology delivery.
• Experience leading complex workflow redesign, targeted operating changes, technology‑enabled adoption, and measurable customer outcomes.
• Ability to advise executives, structure ambiguity, facilitate difficult decisions, challenge assumptions, and translate strategy into practical plans.
• Commercial judgment in shaping opportunities, scoping work, estimating effort, and delivering against what was promised.
• Analytical ability to combine usage, survey, operational, and stakeholder evidence into defensible recommendations and value measures.
• Experience in legal, tax, trade, risk, compliance, or another complex regulated knowledge‑work domain.
• Strong understanding of AI capabilities and limitations, change and adoption, responsible‑use considerations, and cross‑functional delivery.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex transformation engagements from discovery and value hypothesis through workflow redesign where needed, proof of value adoption, and value realization.
• Advise senior leaders on priority AI‑enabled workflows and the targeted changes to roles, skills, practices, controls, and ways of working needed to scale them.
• Shape transformation opportunities from early customer discovery through delivery planning, defining achievable outcomes, scope, approach, estimates, and statements of work with Sales and specialist teams.
• Own the hardest calls on your engagements: the approach when the path is unclear, the tradeoffs when stakeholders disagree, and the commitments we make to the customer on scope and outcomes.
• Set the adoption and activation strategy; diagnose and recover stalled or declining adoption, including barriers in workflow fit, confidence, risk, or customer ownership.
• Establish value hypotheses, baselines, measures, and evidence standards so customer‑facing value claims match what the data supports.
• Work shoulder to shoulder with forward deployed AI engineers as they build against the customer’s real systems and data, shaping what gets built and turning technical possibility into workflow change that holds up in practice.
• Bring adoption, enablement, product, and customer‑success specialists into one outcome; coach consultants on complex work; and turn field learning into reusable methods and value frameworks.

Skills

AI transformation

Change management

Executive advisory

Workflow redesign

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Law/Business/CS

Advanced degree preferred

Job description

Principal AI Transformation Consultant, Professional Services

Focus: AI Transformation Services for CoCounsel and Thomson Reuters solutions Many in-house legal, tax, and trade teams now have access to AI. The harder question is what changes because of it: which work gets redesigned, what good looks like, what guardrails the work needs, and how leaders will know it is working. As a Principal AI Transformation Consultant, you will help senior leaders answer those questions for the workflows that matter most, then lead the change and measure what it delivers — with CoCounsel Legal and CoCounsel for Tax and Trade at the center. You’ll work embedded with client teams, alongside Sales, our AI engineers, enablement specialists, and product teams, from the first client conversation through rollout and measured value.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead complex transformation engagements from discovery and value hypothesis through workflow redesign where needed, proof of value adoption, and value realization.
• Advise senior leaders on priority AI‑enabled workflows and the targeted changes to roles, skills, practices, controls, and ways of working needed to scale them.
• Shape transformation opportunities from early customer discovery through delivery planning, defining achievable outcomes, scope, approach, estimates, and statements of work with Sales and specialist teams.
• Own the hardest calls on your engagements: the approach when the path is unclear, the tradeoffs when stakeholders disagree, and the commitments we make to the customer on scope and outcomes.
• Set the adoption and activation strategy; diagnose and recover stalled or declining adoption, including barriers in workflow fit, confidence, risk, or customer ownership.
• Establish value hypotheses, baselines, measures, and evidence standards so customer‑facing value claims match what the data supports.
• Work shoulder to shoulder with forward deployed AI engineers as they build against the customer’s real systems and data, shaping what gets built and turning technical possibility into workflow change that holds up in practice.
• Bring adoption, enablement, product, and customer‑success specialists into one outcome; coach consultants on complex work; and turn field learning into reusable methods and value frameworks.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Law, Business, Organizational Transformation, Computer Science, or a related field; advanced degree or relevant certifications preferred.
• 10+ years in professional services, management consulting, transformation consulting, or complex AI or enterprise‑technology delivery.
• Experience leading complex workflow redesign, targeted operating changes, technology‑enabled adoption, and measurable customer outcomes.
• Ability to advise executives, structure ambiguity, facilitate difficult decisions, challenge assumptions, and translate strategy into practical plans.
• Commercial judgment in shaping opportunities, scoping work, estimating effort, and delivering against what was promised.
• Analytical ability to combine usage, survey, operational, and stakeholder evidence into defensible recommendations and value measures.
• Experience in legal, tax, trade, risk, compliance, or another complex regulated knowledge‑work domain.
• Strong understanding of AI capabilities and limitations, change and adoption, responsible‑use considerations, and cross‑functional delivery.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with CoCounsel or other Thomson Reuters AI solutions and professional workflows.
• Experience building consulting methods, playbooks, assessments, value frameworks, or service offerings.
• Relevant change, process‑improvement, project‑management, or responsible‑AI certification.

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 base compensation range varies across locations. For any eligible US locations, unless otherwise noted, the base compensation range for this role is $100,100 USD - $185,900 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.

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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.

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