Senior Product Manager - Legal practice areas

UpToDate; Waltham (MA); Sur place; USD 102 600 - 179 250; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Medical, Dental, & Vision Plans

401(k)

Tuition Assistance Plan

Paid Parental Leave

Résumé du poste

Mass Digital Health is seeking a Senior Product Manager to lead product development for legal practice areas. You'll translate customer insights into actionable product strategies while collaborating closely with editorial and marketing teams.

The ideal candidate has a JD or significant legal experience and over 7 years of product management expertise. This role offers a comprehensive compensation package, including a competitive base salary and bonuses.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in product management, legal publishing, or professional information services.
• Strong ability to work credibly with attorneys and legal associations.
• Demonstrated customer-facing and GTM experience.

Responsabilités

• Own the product direction for assigned legal practice areas.
• Translate customer needs and legal developments into product requirements.
• Monitor performance indicators to improve offerings.

Connaissances

Legal knowledge

Product management experience

Customer engagement

GTM strategy

Formation

JD or equivalent legal background

Description du poste

Senior Product Manager – Legal Practice Areas

Role Purpose

The Senior Product Manager is responsible for customer‑ and market‑driven product leadership for one or more legal practice areas within the Legal Markets Group portfolio. This role serves as a deep subject‑matter expert and market interpreter, translating customer needs, legal developments, and competitive dynamics into clear product and go‑to‑market direction. The Senior Product Manager partners closely with Editorial, with the Lead Product Manager responsible for the content roadmap, and with the other Product Managers to ensure that customer insight, content strategy, and commercial execution are tightly aligned. While primarily practice‑area focused, the role may also contribute selectively to enterprise‑wide initiatives where deep legal or market expertise is required.

Key Responsibilities

Customer & Market Insight (Primary Focus)

Customer and market understanding is a core accountability of this role.

• Act as the primary source of customer and market insight for assigned legal practice area(s).
• Engage directly and regularly with:
  • Customers and prospects
  • Sales and account management teams
  • External practitioners, advisors, and industry bodies
• Analyze legal, regulatory, and market trends to:
  • Anticipate emerging customer needs
  • Identify implications for product direction and GTM
  • Surface risks and opportunities early
• Synthesize insights into clear recommendations that inform:
  
  • Product priorities and roadmap discussions
  • Go‑to‑market messaging and positioning
  • Portfolio and lifecycle reviews led by Product Management leadership

Practice Area Product Ownership

• Own the product direction and execution for assigned legal practice area(s), from discovery through ongoing optimization.
• Serve as the product authority on legal workflows, customer jobs‑to‑be‑done, and use cases within the practice area.
• Translate legal complexity into clear product requirements and customer‑oriented value narratives.

Go‑to‑Market Leadership (Practice Area Level)

• Lead practice‑area‑specific GTM execution, including:
  
  • Use cases and workflow definition
  • Value proposition and positioning inputs
  • Product and feature readiness for launch
• Partner with Product Marketing and Marketing teams to:
  • Review and validate marketing copy for legal accuracy and credibility
  • Ensure campaigns reflect real customer needs and legal workflows
• Support Sales through:
  • Deal support on complex opportunities
  • Participation in customer briefings, webinars, and industry events
  • Competitive positioning guidance at the practice area level

Collaboration with Editorial & Lead Product Management

• Partner closely with Editorial leadership to align product direction with content strategy and expertise, ensuring editorial strengths are translated into differentiated product value.
• Work in close coordination with the Lead Product Manager responsible for the content roadmap to:
  • Feed customer and market insight into roadmap prioritization
  • Align practice area needs with portfolio‑level decisions
  • Support coherent execution across content, technology, and GTM
• The Senior Product Manager does not own the content roadmap, but is accountable for ensuring it is customer‑and market‑driven.

Commercial Performance & Optimization

• Monitor practice area performance indicators such as:
  
  • Adoption and usage
  • Retention and customer feedback
  • Revenue and pipeline signals (in partnership with Sales and Finance)
• Identify opportunities to:
  • Improve positioning, packaging, and messaging
  • Enable cross‑sell and upsell opportunities
  • Address underperforming offerings
• Provide insights and recommendations into pricing, packaging, and portfolio discussions (without owning pricing governance).

Qualifications & Experience

• JD or equivalent legal background strongly preferred; meaningful legal industry experience will also be considered.
• 7+ years of experience in product management, legal publishing, legal research, or professional information services.
• Strong ability to work credibly with attorneys, legal departments, and legal associations.
• Demonstrated customer‑facing and GTM experience.
• Proven skill translating legal complexity into product and customer value.

Compensation

Compensation: $102,600.00 - $179,250.00 USD. This role is eligible for Bonus.

Compensation range listed is based on primary location of the position. Actual base salary offer is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skills, experience and actual hiring location.

Benefits

Wolters Kluwer offers a wide variety of competitive benefits and programs to help meet your needs and balance your work and personal life, including but not limited to Medical, Dental, & Vision Plans, 401(k), FSA/HSA, Commuter Benefits, Tuition Assistance Plan, Vacation and Sick Time, and Paid Parental Leave. Full details of our benefits are available upon request.