Director, Strategic Partnerships, Legal Professionals
CoCounsel is the leading AI platform for legal professionals. Partnerships are a core part of that strategy, including the AI companies whose capabilities we integrate into CoCounsel and the consulting, advisory, and implementation partners who drive adoption at scale inside law firms.
We're hiring a Director of Strategic Partnerships to personally own our most strategic Legal AI partnerships. These partnerships center on deep strategic relationships, with the potential to drive meaningful commercial outcomes for both Thomson Reuters and our partners. You'll be accountable for the strategy, the commercial structure, and the results of a small set of strategic partnerships.
This is a high visibility role, reporting directly to the VP of Legal Professionals Partnerships at Thomson Reuters. We're looking for a senior operator who can hold their own with partner CEOs and Thomson Reuters executives, build conviction inside ambiguous opportunities, and turn complex partnerships into durable commercial advantage.
Location : The successful candidates will ideally be based in New York and work in a hybrid environment, spending a minimum of 3 days per week in office. We are open to a remote work arrangement for the right candidate.
About the Role
In this role as a Director, Strategic Partnerships, you will:
- Personally own a small number of our most strategic AI partners, from initial thesis through commercial structure through long-term value creation
- Set the multi-year vision and joint operating plan for each partner, including the commercial model, integration roadmap, and success metrics
- Drive integration depth with CoCounsel product and engineering leaders, making sure partner capabilities show up in the product in ways customers find meaningful value from
- Lead complex commercial negotiations with partner CEOs, founders, and senior executives
- Build the GTM motion with sales, marketing, and enablement so partner integrations translate into pipeline and revenue
- Represent the partnership strategy externally with partner executives, founders, and investors, and internally with Thomson Reuters senior leadership
About You
You may be a fit for the role of Director, Strategic Partnerships if your background includes:
- 10+ years in partnerships, alliances, BD, corporate development, or strategy, with meaningful time spent in tech or legal tech
- A track record of personally owning partnerships that produced outsized commercial outcomes
- A clear and credible point of view on AI and where the legal tech market is heading
- Experience leading complex commercial negotiations with C-level and founder counterparts, including deal structures that go beyond standard reseller or referral models
- Comfort operating with significant autonomy and ambiguity, and earning influence across product, engineering, sales, and the executive team
- Strong commercial judgment and the ability to navigate complex partnerships based on prior experience
- Excellent written and verbal communicator who can move easily between a partner CEO conversation, a product roadmap review, and an internal exec update
- Willingness to travel as needed to meet partners and attend industry events
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What’s in it For You?
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.
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 $157,500 USD - $292,500 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. This job posting will close 06/20/2026.
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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