Are you an experienced legal professional with a passion for legal research and leveraging technology to transform legal research? Join our team as a Product Manager (Westlaw AI) to spearhead AI-driven innovations in legal research, specifically tailored for litigation-focused lawyers. This role is pivotal in enhancing Westlaw's search and AI capabilities, integrating cutting-edge generative AI solutions, and advancing the field of legal research technology.

We are seeking a candidate with a strong sense of curiosity and the ability to venture beyond their comfort zone to explore nuanced, complex, and unfamiliar areas of legal research. The ideal candidate will demonstrate:

(a) A rigorous yet adaptable research methodology that ensures accurate and comprehensive results, even in areas of law with which they may not be familiar.

(b) A collaborative approach to work, with a genuine appreciation for feedback from domain experts, internal stakeholders and users (both current and potential). The candidate should be open to growth embracing change and challenges. A willingness to revisit and refine their work as necessary.

About the Role

In this opportunity as Product Manager – Westlaw AI, you will:

• Drive the development of AI-enhanced legal research features, focusing on LLM and agentic-based generative AI technologies.

• Conduct in-depth legal research using Westlaw and other platforms, creating best-practice research examples to enhance AI functionalities.

• Partner with Product Management, Engineering, and Labs teams to develop and refine AI-driven legal research tools.

• Draft, review, and refine prompts for Westlaw AI skills and tools, ensuring high-quality AI content requirements that leverage your expert knowledge in New Zealand law.

• Evaluate and grade search queries for relevance and comprehensiveness, ensuring alignment with legal research objectives.

• Work directly with customers to understand their needs and incorporate feedback into product development.

About You

You’re a fit for the role of Product Manager – Westlaw AI, if you have:

• A law degree or a combined law degree, or a degree in library science/information management.

• 3+ years of experience in a legal setting, such as a law firm, in-house legal department, or professional services role (e.g., solicitor, barrister, library/legal research/knowledge management).

• Exceptional research skills with expertise in Boolean and other online search languages.

• Experience in creating and refining LLM prompts and data indexes.

• Profound knowledge of New Zealand and Australian legal research platforms, including Westlaw and other resources in market.

• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills, with the ability to multitask effectively.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with a strong grasp of legal terminology.

• Outstanding interpersonal and team facilitation skills.

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What's in it For You?

You will join our inclusive culture of world-class talent, where we are committed to your personal and professional growth through:

• Wellbeing: Comprehensive benefit plans; flexible and supportive benefits for work-life balance: flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days Off; work from another location for up to a total of 8 weeks in a year, 4 of those weeks can be out of the country and the remaining in the country, Headspace app subscription; retirement, savings, tuition reimbursement, and employee incentive programs; resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.

• Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.

• Learning & Development: LinkedIn Learning access; internal Talent Marketplace with opportunities to work on projects cross-company; Ten Thousand Coffees Thomson Reuters café networking.

• Social Impact: Ten employee-driven Business Resource Groups; two paid volunteer days annually; Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives for local and global impact.

• Purpose Driven Work: We have a superpower that we’ve never talked about with as much pride as we should – we are one of the only companies on the planet 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.

Do you want to be part of a team helping re-invent the way knowledge professionals work? How about a team that works every day to create a more transparent, just and inclusive future? At Thomson Reuters, we’ve been doing just that for almost 160 years. Our industry-leading products and services include highly specialized information-enabled software and tools for legal, tax, accounting and compliance professionals combined with the world’s most global news services – Reuters. We help these professionals do their jobs better, creating more time for them to focus on the things that matter most: advising, advocating, negotiating, governing and informing.

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 that celebrate diversity and inclusion. 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. 

Accessibility 

As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our 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/Affirmative Action 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.

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