About the Role
This role is accountable for leading, mentoring, and managing a team of high-performance Senior Sales Executives and Associate Sales Executives focused on Global Large Law Firms (GLLF). Responsibilities include setting and enforcing standards for hunting activity, opportunity generation, and deal execution, as well as building a bench through coaching and career development. The role also involves owning hunter-led outreach directly to the attorney user community, executing growth strategies for high-value deals, and adapting sales approaches for virtual and digital selling environments. Additionally, the role requires coaching and performance development, rigorous pipeline management and forecasting, market intelligence gathering, and cross-functional collaboration.
Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor, and manage a team of high-performance Senior Sales Executives and Associate Sales Executives across GLLF
- Set and enforce standards for hunting activity, opportunity generation, and deal execution, holding the team accountable to individual and team success
- Build a bench through coaching, visibility, and career development planning
- Own hunter-led outreach directly to the attorney user community, including cold calling, cold messaging, and cold demos to generate qualified net-new opportunity
- Execute on growth strategies focused on securing high-value, high-impact deals that align with GLLF's revenue and growth goals
- Adapt sales approaches to engage attorneys effectively in virtual and digital selling environments
- Clearly communicate and track KPIs for the team, delivering regular coaching sessions on pipeline, deal structure, and timelines
- Create, update, and execute individualized coaching plans for each team member around skill development and career growth
- Deliver quarterly performance reviews aligned with each rep's coaching plan
- Own monthly reporting on team performance and weekly reporting on sales pipeline and forecast
- Ensure reporting and commentary demonstrate clear alignment with the GLLF Growth Strategy
- Exceed sales targets through disciplined pipeline management and forecast accuracy
- Stay informed on market trends, competitor activity, and emerging opportunities, adapting sales strategy for maximum impact and flagging risk indicators
- Engage with key customers to build strong relationships and gather feedback and data that inform strategy
- Maintain a strong recruiting pipeline to support ongoing team growth
- Partner with GLLF Leadership, account teams, GCDs, ABM, and Product teams to optimize growth opportunities across GLLF
- Foster a positive, collaborative team culture that supports high performance and retention of top talent
Requirements
- 8+ years of sales leadership experience, including direct people management of sales teams
- Proven track record of hunting and closing net-new business, including cold outreach and demo experience directly with end users
- Demonstrated ability to execute growth strategies focused on high-value, high-impact deals within complex, relationship-driven markets
- Strong proficiency in sales reporting, pipeline management, and forecast rigor, with experience delivering leadership-ready performance updates
- Demonstrated ability to build coaching rhythms and performance frameworks that connect team activity to measurable sales outcomes
- Experience partnering cross-functionally with account teams, GCDs, ABM, and Product teams to align strategy and maximize growth opportunities
- Knowledge of law firm customers and workflows preferred; JD preferred but not required
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
- Strong analytical and executive communication skills, with the ability to identify solutions to business trends and recommend appropriate actions to senior executives
Skills
- Sales leadership
- People management
- Net-new business development
- Cold outreach
- Demo experience
- Growth strategy execution
- Sales reporting
- Pipeline management
- Forecast rigor
- Coaching
- Performance development
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Analytical skills
- Executive communication
Location
- US
Work Type
- Remote
- Hybrid
- Onsite
Experience Level
- Director
- 8+ years sales leadership experience
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
Salary/Compensations
- $255,500 USD - $474,500 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
- 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
- Two paid volunteer days off annually
- 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 (including two company mental health days off)
- 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
- Access to 529 Plan
- Commuter benefits
- Adoption & Surrogacy Assistance
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
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.
- 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.
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.
