Senior Product Manager

Reuters; Eagan (MN); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 256,000; Full time

Job summary

Reuters, Westlaw product team, seeks a Senior Product Manager to drive the transformation of legal research and litigation workflows using advanced AI technologies. You will collaborate with engineers and data scientists to integrate complex systems and deliver precise, compliant outputs for legal professionals.

In this role you will define product direction across large datasets, lead evaluation frameworks, and engage stakeholders to validate concepts.

Qualifications

• Law degree (Juris Doctorate) required.
• Significant experience in the legal industry with substantial legal research involvement.
• Practical experience with AI tools and an eagerness to keep learning as technology evolves.

Responsibilities

• Leverage deep subject matter expertise to collaborate with cross-functional teams evaluating feasibility and impact of new product ideas and enhancements.
• Lead the development of AI-enabled legal research products and experiences, ensuring outputs are precise, compliant, and contextually relevant to standards required by legal professionals.
• Innovate and improve user experience to boost productivity and satisfaction for customers.
• Lead product direction and work closely with engineers and data scientists to integrate complex systems and assess performance.
• Design and implement robust evaluation frameworks to ensure system outputs meet high-quality standards.
• Engage with product segment professionals and internal stakeholders to gather insights and validate concepts.

Skills

Legal domain expertise

Cross-functional collaboration

AI in product

People leadership

Education

Juris Doctorate

Job description

**Senior Product Manager** **Job Description:**We inform the way forward by bringing together trusted content and technology that professionals need to make the right decisions. Our company serves experts across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media sectors. Our products combine specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data, intelligence, and solutions needed to make informed decisions and 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 empower our more than 26,000 teammates across 70+ countries to do work that matters, act decisively for critical institutions, and anticipate future challenges. Sound exciting? Apply today to join our team! We are seeking a Senior Product Manager on the Westlaw product team to drive the transformation of legal research and litigation workflows with advanced AI technologies. In this role, you will leverage your deep subject matter expertise to collaborate with cross-functional teams, innovate user experiences, and integrate complex systems, ensuring our solutions are precise, compliant, and contextually relevant to industry standards. **Key Responsibilities:**In this role as **Senior Product Manager, Westlaw** you will:* Leverage deep subject matter expertise to collaborate with cross-functional teams in evaluating the feasibility and impact of new product ideas and enhancements.* Lead the development of AI-enabled legal research products and experiences, ensuring outputs are precise, compliant, and contextually relevant to the standards that legal professionals require.* Innovate and improve user experience, drawing on extensive expertise to boost productivity and satisfaction for customers.* Lead product direction and work closely with engineers and data scientists, providing expert insights to integrate complex systems, assess their performance, and make informed modifications.* Design and implement robust evaluation frameworks, applying subject matter expertise to ensure system outputs meet high-quality standards.* Establish evaluations using in-depth knowledge to maintain quality and consistency across large datasets and over time.* Engage with product segment professionals, industry leaders, and internal stakeholders, utilizing subject matter expertise to gather insights and validate product concepts effectively.* Maintain a sharp sense of focus on solving the right problems for our customers. **Required Qualifications:*** **Law degree (Juris Doctorate) required.*** Significant experience in the legal industry with substantial legal research involvement.* Practical experience with AI tools and an eagerness to keep learning as technology evolves. **Preferred Qualifications*** **Recent litigation and/or judicial clerkship experience strongly preferred.*** Demonstrated success developing AI solutions for research or litigation workflows.* A proven track record of successful and timely delivery against product roadmaps. #LI-DS4 **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. 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 $137,900 USD - $256,100 USD.For any eligible US locations, unless otherwise noted, the base compensation range for this role is $119,700 USD - $222,300 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.