Manager, Software Engineering, CoCounsel Legal (Eagan)

Manager, Software Engineering, CoCounsel Legal

Where does human judgement meet AI output? For legal professionals, the answer is increasingly a table: a structured surface where they verify, compare, and refine what AI produces across thousands of documents before a real decision gets made. Do you want to lead the team building that surface for the world's leading legal AI assistant?

CoCounsel Tabular Analysis lets legal professionals run structured question sets across thousands of documents and review AI-generated answers in a collaborative, filterable table. Launched in early 2026, it is now being integrated natively into CoCounsel's next-generation agentic platform - and the product vision extends well beyond that. As Engineering Manager, you will lead a senior, high-ownership team, driving delivery that spans multiple platform teams. This is a role for an experienced manager energized by cross-team execution in a fast-moving, competitive market.

About the Role

In this opportunity as a Manager, Software Engineering, you will:

• Lead and empower a senior engineering team: own hiring, performance, career growth, and promotion advocacy, and create the conditions for experienced engineers to own technical direction - backing them with delivery management and organizational air cover.

• Drive delivery across team boundaries: plan, sequence, and unblock work that depends on platform, files, and agent teams; negotiate dependencies and integration contracts; and keep multi-team initiatives moving to committed dates.

• Ship iteratively under real deadlines: negotiate scope, favor incremental releases and feature-flagged rollouts, and make pragmatic trade-offs between speed and completeness in a market where competitors ship frequently.

• Build engineering resilience: reduce single-person dependencies in critical systems through design reviews, pairing, and documentation, so the team's architecture outlives any one engineer.

• Represent the team in platform architecture decisions: advocate for the capabilities the product needs as the next-generation platform takes shape.

• Own roadmap delivery: partner with product and design to sequence and ship a roadmap that extends well beyond the initial platform integration, grounded in customer problems and competitive insight.

About You

You're a fit for the role of Software Engineering Manager if you have the following required qualifications:

• 2+ years of direct people-management experience for software engineers, including hiring, performance management, and career development.

• 8+ years of overall software engineering experience, including hands‑on work with Python‑based backend systems and enough distributed‑systems depth to engage credibly in architecture discussions about data platforms and high‑volume processing

• A track record of delivering complex initiatives that spanned multiple teams - for example a replatform, migration, or deep platform integration - where much of the critical path sat outside your own team.

• Demonstrated delivery management under fixed external deadlines: scope negotiation, incremental delivery, feature‑flag strategies, and clear risk communication to leadership.

• Comfort operating amid organizational and product ambiguity - you stay effective, and keep a team motivated, while ownership boundaries and scope are still being settled.

• Experience leading distributed teams that blend full‑time engineers and contractors across time zones.

Additional preferred qualifications include:

• Experience building LLM‑powered or agentic products, or platforms that other teams build on.

• Background in document‑intensive or regulated enterprise software (legal, tax, compliance, financial services).

• Experience growing senior individual contributors into technical leadership roles.

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Replacement: 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 community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro‑bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.

• Making a Real-World Impact: 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.

Our use of AI within the recruitment process Thomson Reuters utilizes Artificial Intelligence (AI) to support parts of our global recruitment process. Unless you opt-out, our AI system will assess the information provided by you and compare it to the requirements listed for the role, and present the result to our recruitment personnel for further review. The AI system acts as a supporting tool, but there is always a human making the decision if you will be considered for the role.

In the United States, Thomson Reuters offers a comprehensive benefits package to our employees. Our benefit package includes market competitive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance programs, as well as a competitive 401k plan with company match. In addition, Thomson Reuters offers market leading work life benefits with competitive vacation, sick and safe paid time off, paid holidays (including two company mental health days off), parental leave, sabbatical leave. These benefits meet or exceeds the requirements of paid time off in accordance with any applicable state or municipal laws. Finally, Thomson Reuters offers the following additional benefits: optional hospital, accident and sickness insurance paid 100% by the employee; optional life and AD&D insurance paid 100% by the employee; Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts; fitness reimbursement; access to Employee Assistance Program; Group Legal Identity Theft Protection benefit paid 100% by employee; access to 529 Plan; commuter benefits; Adoption & Surrogacy Assistance; Tuition Reimbursement; and access to Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

Thomson Reuters complies with local laws that require upfront disclosure of the expected pay range for a position. The base compensation range varies across locations. For any eligible US locations, unless otherwise noted, the base compensation range for this role is $127,400 USD - $236,600 USD. For Ontario, Canada, the base compensation range for this role is $140,000 CAD - $175,000 CAD. Base pay is positioned within the range based on several factors including an individual's knowledge, skills and experience with consideration given to internal equity. Base pay is one part of a comprehensive Total Reward program which also includes flexible and supportive benefits and other wellbeing programs. This role may also be eligible for an Annual Bonus based on a combination of enterprise and individual performance.

About Us

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. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape t]]> <