Thomson Reuters is seeking a Legal Counsel to join our team in a strategic specialist role focused on maintaining and innovating the company's customer contracting framework. You will shape how the legal team negotiates and drafts by providing state-of-the-art, clear, practical, and commercially aligned guidance through playbooks, templates, and know-how materials.
What You'll Do
- Stay current with modern cloud and SaaS developments to draft and update template contracts, clauses, and supporting guidance using industry best practices.
- Maintain and continuously improve the customer contract playbook, including fallback positions and rationale for use in negotiations.
- Partner with legal team members to remove friction, bring speed, create leverage, and propose clear, scalable improvements to contracting.
- Monitor legal developments and market trends, particularly in SaaS and AI, and translate them into actionable guidance for the legal team.
- Support knowledge-sharing initiatives and lead the creation and delivery of resources to inspire and upskill legal colleagues.
- Act as an owner on contracting positions to drive consistency and quality in negotiations across the legal team.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with legal, sales, commercial policy, and risk & compliance teams to ensure playbook positions reflect broader business objectives.
What We're Looking For
- A JD (or equivalent experience) with substantial in-house or law firm experience negotiating complex SaaS and technology contracts.
- Deep understanding of key contracting issues in SaaS, including data, privacy, liability, IP, AI use, and service levels.
- Strong drafting skills and a passion for innovating contracts using clear, concise, and user-friendly legal language.
- Practical and commercial mindset, with the ability to translate legal risk into business-aligned guidance.
- Genuine desire to move into a strategic knowledge support role.
- A self-starter with a genuine interest in legal innovation, transformation, know-how, process improvement, consistency, and enabling scalable legal support.
- Collaborative, curious and communicative, with experience working in or alongside policy, legal operations, or knowledge management teams.
Nice to Have
- Experience developing or managing a legal playbook or knowledge hub is highly desired.
- Familiarity with generative AI use cases in legal contracting or legal tech tools is highly desired.
Team & Environment
This role sits within the Knowledge & Policy Team, part of the GCO Customers & Commercial Practice Group.
Benefits & Compensation
- Compensation range of $116,900 - $217,100.
- Hybrid Work Model: Flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office).
- Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way policies, work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year.
- Career Development and Growth: Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach.
- Industry Competitive Benefits: Flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to Headspace app.
- Comprehensive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance programs.
- Competitive 401k plan with company match.
- Parental leave, sabbatical leave.
- Two paid volunteer days off annually, pro-bono consulting opportunities.
- Access to Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
Work Mode
This is a hybrid role based in the United States.
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.
