Senior Legal Counsel

This position is open due to an existing vacancy to support our evolving business needs.

Do you want to be part of a team that helps professionals do their jobs better and which also strives to create a more transparent, just and inclusive future? At Thomson Reuters, we’ve been doing just that for almost 160 years.

We're looking for an experienced, hands-on commercial lawyer with a problem-solving approach to providing commercial legal services in a technology-enabled, data-driven corporate legal department. The successful candidate should have advanced legal skills and be able to provide sound legal and business advice to sales professionals in North America, product management, and other internal customers, on a broad range of legal and compliance matters, particularly in relation to software (including SaaS), information licensing and partnerships.

This opportunity is with Thomson Reuters and based in Dallas, Toronto or Minneapolis-Saint Paul. The role sits within the Customers & Commercial team of the Thomson Reuters General Counsel’s Office, a highly collaborative international team focused on enabling business growth and mitigating risk for the customer-centric commercial group.

About The Role

In this opportunity, you will:

• Review, draft, and negotiate a wide range of customer facing and partner facing agreements, primarily complex software (including SaaS) and information licensing agreements, re-distribution, reseller, referral and other channel partnership agreements, integration, hosting, content acquisition, consulting and professional services agreements, non-disclosure agreements and other commercial agreements relating to sales of Thomson Reuters products and services.
• Provide strategic legal advice to business leaders and partner with multiple stakeholders to drive strategy and growth.
• Experience advising on the licensing of, as well as using, AI tools and other legal technology.

About You

You’re a fit for the role if your background includes:

• 6-8+ years post qualification experience in private practice and/or as in-house legal counsel advising a sales organization on customers (rather than procurement).
• A desire to build a legal career within a large corporate setting.
• Excellent technical legal knowledge in contract and commercial law, particularly with SaaS products and solutions, including Generative and Agentic AI products and solutions.
• Experience and knowledge of software/technology contracting.
• Excellent negotiation and drafting skills.
• An ability to think strategically, creatively and practically, to identify and resolve legal issues.
• A desire and ability to quickly learn about Thomson Reuters products and services, and its internal processes and organizational structure.
• Authorized to practice law.

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).
• Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities.
• Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow’s challenges.
• 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.
• Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute.
• Making a Real-World Impact: We are one of the few companies globally that helps its customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency.

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 Ontario, Canada, the base compensation range for this role is $126,000 CAD - $176,000 CAD.

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.

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