Product Manager, Legal AI

Product Manager, Legal AI

Are you an experienced legal professional with a passion for 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.

About the Role

In this opportunity as Product Manager, Legal AI ; you will:

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

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

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

Prompt Engineering: Draft, review, and refine prompts for Westlaw RAG, ensuring high-quality AI content requirements that leverage your expert knowledge in Australian law.

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

Customer Engagement: 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, Legal AI if you have the following required qualifications:

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

2+ 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/knowledge management).

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

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

Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with ability to multi-task effectively.

Curious, keen learner of new technologies and processes.

Additional preferred qualifications include:

Outstanding interpersonal and facilitation skills.

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

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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.

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.

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