Practice Innovation Partner - Legal Professionals (New York)

Practice Innovation Partner — Legal ProfessionalsSenior Director | Strategic Accounts | Legal SegmentThomson Reuters is building a new senior advisory function to serve our most strategic law firm accounts. The Practice Innovation Partner is a client-facing role operating at the intersection of AI strategy, technology transformation, and the business of law. This person engages senior firm leadership to help them think through how AI changes the way their organizations operate, compete, and deliver value — and works across the full client lifecycle from pre-sale through post-sale to ensure Thomson Reuters is positioned as an indispensable strategic partner.This is a peer advisory role. Its credibility depends entirely on the depth of experience the person brings from inside the legal profession. The role is not about product demos or adoption metrics — it is about executive relationships and strategic counsel at the highest level of the firm.About the RoleIn this opportunity as Practice Innovation Partner, you will: Serve as the senior executive advisor for a portfolio of strategic law firm accounts, engaging firm leadership — Managing Partner, CIO, CKO, COO — on AI strategy, transformation roadmap, and operating model design.Build trusted, peer-level relationships with firm leadership that give Thomson Reuters a seat at the table when strategic technology decisions are being made.Partner with the Account Executive across the full sales and relationship lifecycle — from pre-sale and close through post-sale — providing the executive credibility and strategic altitude that enables the broader account team to operate more effectively.Develop and deliver a clear, informed point of view on how AI is reshaping the economics and operating models of law firms — grounded enough to hold up in a partners' committee conversation.Partner and maintain dotted line relationships to Product Organization to deeply understand our product roadmap, feature development and upcoming launches to best articulate back to customers. Surface executive-level insight back to TR product and business leadership on where firms are investing, what is blocking AI adoption, and what senior leaders need that the market is not yet providing.Represent Thomson Reuters at senior legal industry forums, client roundtables, and executive events where firm-level credibility is the prerequisite for the room.About You You’re a fit for the role of Practice Innovation Partner if your background includes: Experience as a senior technology, innovation, or transformation leader inside a major law firm — such as a Director or Senior Director of Legal Technology, Innovation, or Knowledge Management at an AmLaw 200 or equivalent global firm. You have operated at a level where you shaped firm strategy and built executive buy-in.5+ years of innovation experience, with meaningful time inside a law firm environment that mirrors the clients you will serve.Practical understanding of how law firm partnership structures work — what drives partner adoption, how governance decisions get made, and where technology change efforts stall.A grounded point of view on how AI changes legal staffing, pricing, client delivery, and competitive positioning — developed through direct experience, not observation.Fluency in the legal technology landscape, including Westlaw, CoCounsel, Practical Law, and how they fit into firm-wide technology strategy.Ability to operate credibly with firm leadership without a commercial agenda — you will not carry a quota, but your relationships will directly influence retention and growth.Executive communication skills: effective one-on-one with a skeptical partner and equally effective in a structured committee presentation.Collaborative by nature — you will work alongside CSMs, Practical Law Editors, AI Solutions Architects, Forward Deployed Engineers, and Professional Services, each owning a distinct part of the clienyes,t relationship.#LI-LG1This posting is for proactive recruitment purposes and may be used to fill current openings or future vacancies within our organization.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.

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 $158,100 USD - $293,500 USD.
For any eligible US locations, unless otherwise noted, the base compensation range for this role is $137,200 USD - $254,800 USD.
For Ontario, Canada, the base compensation range for this role is $155,000 CAD - $205,000 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.
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