Product Manager

Thomson Reuters; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 88,000 - 164,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a passionate Product Manager to join their innovative team. This role involves transforming legal research workflows with cutting-edge generative AI technology. You will leverage your legal expertise and product management skills to ensure the quality of AI-generated content, working collaboratively with a diverse team of professionals. This position offers a unique opportunity to make a significant impact in the legal technology space while enjoying a hybrid work model and a comprehensive benefits package. If you're eager to drive change and thrive in a dynamic environment, this role is perfect for you.

Benefits

Flexible vacation

Mental Health Days

Tuition reimbursement

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Fitness reimbursement

Work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year

Paid volunteer days

Commuter benefits

Career development programs

Access to Headspace app

Qualifications

• Deep understanding of legal research methods and their application.
• Experience translating user needs into product requirements.

Responsibilities

• Manage the implementation of automated evaluation frameworks for generative AI.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate requirements into user stories.

Skills

Legal Research

Product Management

Generative AI

Analytical Skills

Communication

Education

J.D. from an accredited law school

3-5+ years of product management experience

Tools

Python

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Summary:

The Product Manager will join the market-leading team at Thomson Reuters Westlaw and contribute to transforming legal research and litigation workflows with generative AI. We are seeking a passionate and detail-oriented Product Manager to support the development and implementation of automated evaluation systems for our cutting-edge AI models. This role offers a fantastic opportunity to apply your deep understanding of legal processes and product management skills to ensure the quality and reliability of AI-generated content used by legal professionals. You will work closely with product managers, research scientists, and engineers, playing a key role in bringing innovative legal technology solutions to life.

About the Role:

Key Responsibilities:

• Strong Legal Research: Break down complex legal research and related litigation workflows to identify how generative AI can enhance specific tasks (legal research, brief analysis, motion improvement) and define the evaluation criteria necessary to ensure AI outputs meet the high standards of legal practice.
• Evaluation Framework Execution: Contribute to the design and manage the implementation of automated evaluation frameworks and metrics for generative AI in the legal domain, ensuring alignment with product roadmaps. Focus on assessing factors like factual accuracy, legal soundness, citation validity, hallucination detection, bias, and relevance for specific features.
• Data Management and Testing Coordination: Manage the creation and curation of high-quality datasets needed for auto-evaluation (ground truth, adversarial examples). Coordinate the execution of automated testing and validation pipelines, track results, and help identify areas for improvement.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate closely with research scientists, engineers, attorney editors, and other product managers to translate requirements into clear user stories and specifications, facilitate development, and ensure smooth execution of generative AI evaluation features.
• Technical Insight & Application: Stay current with advancements in LLMs, generative AI evaluation techniques, and prompt engineering. Apply this knowledge to support the continuous improvement of evaluation methods and tools for assigned features.
• Stakeholder Communication: Clearly communicate feature status, requirements, evaluation results, and potential risks to relevant team members and stakeholders.
• User & Market Understanding: Participate in and support market research, competitive analysis, and user research activities to gather insights into the needs and expectations of legal professionals regarding AI-generated content evaluation.
  
  
  

About You:

You are a fit for the role of Product Manager if your background includes:

• Legal Expertise (Required): J.D. from an accredited law school and a deep understanding of legal research methods, concepts, and their application within litigation workflows. Ability to dissect complex legal issues.
• Product Management Fundamentals (Required): 3-5+ years of product management experience with a track record of contributing to the end-to-end lifecycle (concept to launch) of complex technical products/features. Experience translating user needs into product requirements, especially for evaluation.
• AI & Technical Proficiency (Required): Minimum 6 months working with generative AI; familiarity with and strong interest in learning about current AI tools and techniques (Legal AI focus highly preferred). Understanding of the importance of evaluation metrics and data quality for AI. Direct experience contributing to the development or implementation of evaluation processes for AI/ML models, experience working directly with data science teams on model processes (training, tuning, evaluation), and comfort with intermediate programming, specifically Python a plus.
• Analytical & Problem-Solving Skills: Strong critical thinking and analytical skills. Ability to break down complex problems, identify core issues, and contribute to effective solutions. Comfortable working through ambiguity.
• Communication & Collaboration: Excellent communication and collaboration skills; ability to work effectively within cross-functional teams and articulate requirements.
• Mindset & Work Ethic: Bright, tech-savvy, proactive self-starter with a strong sense of ownership and a drive to deliver results. Eager to learn and stay informed about emerging research and industry trends.
  
  
  

What’s in it For You?

• 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.
• 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.

Eligible office location(s) for this role include one or more of the following: New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and/or Irvine, CA; McLean, VA; Washington, DC. The base compensation range for the role in any of those locations is $101,640 - $188,760.

For any eligible US locations, unless otherwise noted, the base compensation range for this role is $88,200 - $163,800.

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.

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.

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  Product Management and Marketing

• Industries

  Financial Services, Legal Services, and IT Services and IT Consulting

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