Senior Product Manager

Senior Product Manager, Practical Law

Practical Law is the market leading provider of practice guidance for legal users. We are a global team that develops products and solutions that bring the expertise of our 600+ attorney editors to our customers by delivering that expertise throughout our native applications and tools as well as fueling other TR products that rely on subject matter expertise. Our mission is to enable our customers to deliver high quality, differentiated legal services by getting them from discovery to analysis to work product faster. A key component of delivering these solutions is developing AI skills and enabled features that leverage Practical Law’s content and editor subject matter expertise.

Senior Product Manager, Practical Law will own the vision, direction, and priorities for the feature or product area they are responsible for, managing the product life cycle from strategic planning to tactical execution. The Sr. PM, Practical Law will have a strong technical background and a firm understanding of AI and ML technologies and how to develop solutions that build upon Practical Law content and expertise to solve customer problems. They will be comfortable with ambiguity and the need to respond to a rapidly evolving market. The Sr. PM, Practical Law will work closely with colleagues in editorial, as well as other product groups, to deliver solutions of the highest quality, accuracy, and customer value. The Sr. PM, Practical Law will be able to communicate customer needs crisply and succinctly across the organization and work with design and engineering teams to translate those needs into clear priorities, compelling roadmaps, and high-impact, innovative solutions.  The balance between tactical execution and strategic vision is critical at this level as is the ability to coordinate across multiple functions simultaneously.
Thomson Reuters leads at the intersection of content and technology with trusted data, workflow automation, and AI. TR has a bold vision to be the leader in AI-powered, content-driven technology, and the Senior PM, Practical Law will work closely with colleagues from Product, Compliance, Engineering, TR Labs, and Design teams who are already dedicated to delivering on this mission. Teams are working closely with customers to create a product experience that is unmatched in the market today. In this role, you will work with leaders and stakeholders from these teams in refining our product roadmap, while also playing a hands-on role in leading cross-functional distributed product teams through product discovery and delivery.

About the Role

As a Senior Product Manager, you will: 

• Develop strong product intuition by interpreting and assessing customer problems, business needs, and opportunities and offering potential solutions with a moderate level of guidance and direction.

• Build world-class capabilities and products by creating a vision for the product maintaining the product roadmap for your features and partnering closely with the dev team, UX, and other partners to execute the roadmap and deliver efficiently. This includes defining your product or feature backlog based on customer and business value and using metrics to monitor and measure progress.

• Demonstrate leadership by taking extreme ownership of a feature/product, its performance and reliability, and delighting our clients with a positive experience as it is deployed in end-to-end product experiences. You will show that you can learn from your experiences, recover from setbacks, and effectively evangelize the product vision to colleagues.

• You will be a well-rounded AI expert for our teams by staying on the cutting edge of AI and technology development, inspiring teams to ideate and experiment with applying AI, and sharing your unique perspective on how AI can propel the legal profession through writing, blogging, and shareouts with teams and customers

About You

To be successful in achieving these goals, you will be:

• Curious & Innovative, starting with an obsession for our customer's problems and needs and then working closely with customers, partners, and other Thomson Reuters colleagues to solve them in unique ways

• Agile with a strong sense of urgency and a desire to work in a fast-paced dynamic environment to deliver solutions against strict timelines, unafraid of failure

• An effective communicator who projects confidence and communicates concisely and clearly to management, peers, customers, and partners

Foundational Skills

Successful Senior Product Manager (SPM) candidates will exhibit and show the aspiration to further develop the following skills:

• Problem-Solving

• Leadership

• Tec