Vice President, Strategic Innovation Partner

The Vice President, Strategic Innovation Partner is a newly created, enterprise-level role within Marketing, designed to elevate Thomson Reuters' position as a leader in legal innovation and AI. This role serves as a senior external-facing advisor and internal catalyst-connecting market trends, customer priorities, and product innovation to drive top-of-funnel demand, strengthen executive relationships, and accelerate growth.

Operating across segments, this leader will amplify TR's voice in the market while serving as a high-impact resource that can be deployed into strategic customer situations when executive engagement is critical.

About the Role

Key Responsibilities:

Industry Leadership, Executive Engagement & Market Visibility

• Serve as a high-profile external face of Thomson Reuters at premier industry, customer, and partner events (conferences, executive forums, roundtables, and private client engagements)
• Act as a thought leader on legal innovation, AI, and the future of the profession—delivering keynotes, moderating executive discussions, and shaping industry dialogue
• Create and lead exclusive executive engagements (C-suite roundtables, innovation councils, client advisory boards) that deepen relationships and position TR as a strategic partner
• Partner with Marketing to design and execute flagship events and targeted executive programs that drive pipeline creation, brand positioning, and account penetration
• Develop compelling executive-level narratives and content that translate market trends and TR capabilities into clear business value
• Build visibility with industry influencers, analysts, and partners to amplify TR's market credibility
• Leverage event participation as a growth lever—expanding executive access, generating qualified opportunities, and accelerating strategic deals

Strategic Customer Engagement & Growth Enablement

• Serve as an enterprise-level resource who can be selectively deployed into priority accounts to elevate strategic conversations and unlock growth opportunities
• Partner with Account Executives and Segment Innovation Partners to strengthen C-suite relationships (Managing Partners, CIOs, CKOs, CFOs, and equivalents)
• Provide targeted advisory support on AI strategy, operating model evolution, and transformation roadmaps for high-value or complex opportunities
• Engage early in the sales cycle (pre-POC) to help shape customer vision and align TR capabilities to strategic priorities
• Act as an executive sponsor for select renewals and expansion efforts where senior-level engagement can accelerate outcomes
• Support—but do not replace—Segment Innovation Partners as primary relationship owners, focusing on amplification at key inflection points
• Help unblock complex situations or escalations, including those requiring product roadmap alignment

Innovation Advisory & Market Insight

• Advise clients on AI-enabled transformation, workflow redesign, and adoption strategies
• Translate customer and market insights into actionable input for Product, Marketing, and GTM teams
• Identify emerging trends and opportunities to inform TR's innovation and positioning strategy

About You

Qualifications & Experience:

• Executive-level experience in legal, professional services, or legal technology
• Deep expertise in AI, innovation, and operating model transformation
• Strong executive presence and credibility with C-suite stakeholders
• Experience influencing complex, enterprise-level deals and strategic customer outcomes
• Recognized thought leadership (public speaking, industry engagement, published POVs)
• Ability to operate cross-functionally and shape strategy in a matrixed environment

Leadership Profile:

• Externally oriented, strategic, and highly credible advisor
• Commercially minded with strong business acumen
• Influential communicator and storyteller
• Comfortable shaping and operating in a newly created role
• Collaborative, low-ego leader with high impact

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: Obs 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.

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.Eligible office location(s) for this role include one or more of the following: New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and/or Irvine, CA; McLean, VA; Washington, DC. The base compensation range for the role in any of those locations is $201,600 USD - $374,400 USD.For any eligible US locations, unless otherwise noted, the base compensation range for this role is $175,000 USD - $325,000 USD.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 the industries that move society forward.

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.

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