AddressAre you passionate about legal research and how technology can enhance legal work? As Associate Product Manager, Westlaw you will be using your legal research expertise to complete research projects and collaborate on new research capabilities and enhancements to Westlaw. You will work closely with cross-functional product, engineering, labs and editorial teams to ensure an understanding of your research and its impact on the broader team activities in the development of new solutions.
This position requires someone keen to "geek out" on Australian law and legal technology, including AI. Capable of completing accurate legal research projects, you are creative, love to bring new ideas to life, and consider delivering superior results consistently a key aspect of what makes you awesome.
Thomson Reuters is the world's largest legal solutions provider, empowering law firms, legal departments, government organisations and corporate institutions to act with confidence. Our innovative work environment spans both the legal and technology industries and offers genuine work life balance within a supportive culture.
This is a 15-month fixed-term position, reporting to the Vice President, Westlaw Product Management.
About the Role
In this opportunity as Associate Product Manager, you will:
Creating and refining legal Boolean queries to develop new research features for our customers.
Evaluating and grading search queries to ensure comprehensiveness and relevance on the legal issues being researched.
Working collaboratively with content, editorial, technology and UX teams.
Identifying and solving problems, outliers, and deviations, collaborating as a domain expert with in-house teams to develop solutions and deliver transformation improvements.
Working with customers.
Analysing large amounts of data and evaluating complex information.
About You
You're a fit for the role of Associate Product Manager if your background includes:
A law degree or combined law degree a must.
2 years or more experience at a law firm, in-house legal department, the bar or related organisation is a must. In this capacity you have worked as a solicitor, barrister or in a professional services role such as library/knowledge management.
Experience with legal research platforms and evaluating legal content a must.
Experience in legal Boolean searching desired.
Comfortable working autonomously and collaboratively.
Exceptional written and verbal skills, especially familiarity with legal terminology.
Exceptional interpersonal and team facilitation skills.
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:
Hybrid Work Model: We've adopted a flexible hybrid working environment for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected
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: Eight 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.
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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.
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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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