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About the Role

CoCounsel is central to Thomson Reuters' ambition to build a $1 billion legal AI business by July 2028. The Legal AI Business Accelerator brings product, commercial, marketing, customer, technology, data, finance, and operations teams together around a focused set of high-impact growth plays. We are seeking a Director, Strategic Initiatives to turn that ambition into execution. In this role, you will provide programmatic leadership for a critical accelerator pillar or strategic workstream—translating strategy into an integrated roadmap, establishing the operating cadence, resolving dependencies, and ensuring the team delivers measurable impact. This is a high-visibility role for a strategic operator equally comfortable shaping an ambiguous problem, mobilizing a cross-functional team, and driving disciplined execution. Partnering closely with an accountable business leader and functional leaders, you'll serve as the connective tissue across the work—helping the team make choices, test hypotheses, remove barriers, and deliver outcomes, not simply track activity.

Responsibilities

Lead the strategy-to-execution process for an assigned accelerator pillar, converting enterprise growth objectives into a clear charter, roadmap, milestones, and decision points
Build and run the program operating system, including governance, leadership forums, working-team cadence, decision rights, dependency management, and risk escalation
Mobilize dedicated cross-functional teams across Product, Engineering, Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, Operations & Technology, Data & Analytics, Finance, Legal, and other shared services
Facilitate discovery sessions and workshops that surface customer and business pain points, align stakeholders, and turn competing perspectives into executable decisions
Maintain an integrated view of scope, resources, sequencing, and interdependencies; identify capability gaps and work with leaders to secure the talent, funding, data, tools, and functional capacity required to deliver
Define success measures and establish a fact-based performance rhythm—tracking leading indicators, customer outcomes, commercial impact, and delivery progress, and recommending where to double down, pivot, or stop
Champion rapid experimentation and test-and-learn ways of working while maintaining accountability for commitments, quality, and pace
Connect work across the full customer lifecycle—from awareness and trial through onboarding, adoption, renewal, expansion, and advocacy—so customers experience a coherent journey rather than disconnected functional handoffs
Develop executive-ready communications, SteerCo materials, business cases, and decision briefs that make tradeoffs and required actions clear
Partner on change management and capability building so new operating models, processes, and behaviors are adopted and sustained
Capture reusable playbooks and lessons that strengthen execution across the accelerator

Requirements

7+ years in business transformation, strategic program leadership, strategy execution, product or go-to-market operations, or comparable experience in a complex enterprise environment
A track record of leading complex, cross-functional initiatives that delivered measurable commercial, customer, product, or operational impact
Ability to move fluidly between strategy and execution—framing problems, building plans, establishing operating discipline, and driving work through ambiguity and change
Exceptional facilitation, influence, and stakeholder-management skills, with the judgment to challenge constructively and align senior leaders and delivery teams without relying on direct authority
Strong analytical and business-case capabilities, including defining metrics, evaluating performance, and using evidence to recommend action
Executive presence and outstanding written/verbal communication skills, with the ability to simplify complex issues into crisp, decision-oriented materials
Experience applying agile, lean, product operating model, OKR, or similar approaches to improve focus, speed, and value delivery
Persistence, adaptability, and sound judgment in a fast-moving, matrixed environment with incomplete information
A customer-first mindset and genuine interest in how AI is reshaping professional work and business models
Legal technology, AI-enabled products, SaaS, professional information services, or another B2B enterprise technology environment
Familiarity with product-led growth, enterprise go-to-market transformation, customer lifecycle optimization, adoption/value realization, renewals and expansion, or ecosystem partnerships
Working knowledge of enterprise platforms and tools such as Salesforce, Gainsight, Gong, Miro, or Microsoft Planner/Teams
Experience leading programs spanning multiple customer segments, geographies, or functions
MBA or other relevant advanced degree

Skills

AI
Business transformation
Strategic program leadership
Strategy execution
Product operations
Go-to-market operations
Cross-functional initiative leadership
Facilitation
Influence
Stakeholder management
Analytical skills
Business case development
Agile methodologies
Lean methodologies
Product operating model
OKRs
Change management
Legal technology
SaaS
Salesforce
Gainsight
Gong
Miro
Microsoft Planner
Microsoft Teams

Location

Work Type

Flexible work arrangements
Work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year

Experience Level

7+ years

Education Level

MBA or other relevant advanced degree

Salary/Compensations

$137,200 USD - $254,800 USD

Benefits

Flex My Way policies
Work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year
Continuous learning and skill development
Grow My Way programming
Skills-first approach
Flexible vacation
Two company-wide Mental Health Days off
Access to the Headspace app
Retirement savings
Tuition reimbursement
Employee incentive programs
Resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing
Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging
Two paid volunteer days off annually
Pro-bono consulting projects
Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives
Market competitive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance programs
Competitive 401k plan with company match
Competitive vacation, sick and safe paid time off
Paid holidays
Parental leave
Sabbatical leave
Optional hospital, accident and sickness insurance
Optional life and AD&D insurance
Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts
Fitness reimbursement
Access to Employee Assistance Program
Group Legal Identity Theft Protection benefit
Access to 529 Plan
Commuter benefits
Adoption & Surrogacy Assistance
Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Annual Bonus based on a combination of enterprise and individual performance

About the Company

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.
Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.

Equal Opportunity

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.
We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.