Product Manager - FDE
Thomson ReutersAbout the role
We are seeking a Product Manager to lead product execution and support the CoCounsel Legal Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) team, focused on disciplined execution, customer engagement, and end‑to‑end AI product lifecycle management across deployments. This role is customer‑facing and requires familiarity or keen interest with the legal industry and how legal teams operate in practice. The Product Manager will work directly with corporate customers and Forward Deployed Engineers to ensure bespoke products & integration patterns as part of FDE engagements are well defined, well managed, and intentionally productized into scalable AI product capabilities over time.
About the Role
In this opportunity as Product Manager - FDE, you will:
Customer Engagement & Use-Case discovery: Partner directly with legal stakeholders to understand workflows, pain points, and operational constraints. Oversee execution & delivery and support engagements with customers alongside Forward Deployed Engineers. Translate customer input into clear product requirements and acceptance criteria.
Backlog & Execution Management: Own & maintain backlogs across FDE engagements, ensuring strong hygiene, prioritization, and transparency. Ensure work is clearly scoped, sequenced, and tracked across discovery, build, validation and hand-off. Support dependency management and execution planning with engineering partners.
End-End Product Lifecycle Ownership: Manage product work from initial intake through development, launch and transition to core product teams. Ensure decisions, context, and learnings from deployments are well documented and reusable. Support release readiness and communication with internal stakeholders.
Productizing Bespoke Work: Identify opportunities to convert customer-specific solutions into repeatable product capabilities. Work with Senior Product Managers and core product teams to define when work should remain custom-specific versus when it should be generalized.
About You
You’re a fit for the role of Product Manager - FDE, if your background includes:
4–6 years of product management experience, ideally in enterprise SaaS or integration / implementation‑heavy environments.
Customer‑facing interest or experience with legal teams, legal operations, or related enterprise workflows.
Strong organizational skills and comfort managing complex backlogs across multiple engagements.
Ability to translate ambiguous customer needs into clear product requirements.
Exposure to AI‑enabled products, APIs, or workflow platforms is a plus.
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New Position: This position is open due to an existing vacancy to support our evolving business needs.
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
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