Legal AI Academic Client Solutions Manager

1 Year FTC

About The Role

• Own and drive the adoption of Thomson Reuters AI products among law students, trainees and early‑career lawyers through faculties and course leaders/designers.
• Build strong, scalable relationships with law schools, professional training providers, and student bodies to embed AI tools into learning and assessment.
• Create a pipeline of "AI‑native" future lawyers who will advocate for and demand these tools in practice.
• Act as the bridge between training, product, marketing, sales and the academic/legal training ecosystem.

Market development & partnerships

• Identify, prioritise, and secure partnerships with priority law schools, bar/vocational training providers, and leading student societies.
• Negotiate and manage pilot programmes, institutional licenses, and curriculum integrations.
• Maintain a map of key decision‑makers (deans, programme directors, careers offices, student org leaders) and own those relationships.

Student engagement & adoption

• Design and execute campaigns to drive active usage among students (events, workshops, competitions, bootcamps, clinics).
• This might include developing and running ambassador or "AI champion" programmes in target institutions.
• Set and track student adoption and engagement targets (sign‑ups, MAUs, depth of usage).

Education & enablement

• Work with the Training team and other internal experts to create training content tailored to students and early‑career lawyers (CPD‑style sessions, webinars, on‑demand modules).
• Collaborate with academics to integrate AI tools into coursework, moot courts, clinics, and skills modules.
• Ensure messaging and materials are aligned with ethical/legal practice expectations (confidentiality, bias, supervision, etc).
• Regularly publish student‑relevant content on social media and track engagement.

Feedback loop into product & GTM

• Capture structured feedback from students and academics and channel it into product improvements.
• Share insights on trends in legal education and AI adoption to inform roadmap and commercial strategy.

Reporting & governance

• Own KPIs for the education/early‑career segment (e.g. # institutions onboarded, # active student users, activation/utilisation rates, conversion to paid relationships).
• Produce regular reporting for leadership on performance, learnings and proposed next moves.
• Ensure compliance with relevant data protection, academic regulations and professional standards when running initiatives.

About You

• Experience in legal education and preferably law firm practice, innovation or knowledge.
• Strong relationship‑building skills across senior academics, administrators and student leaders.
• Comfortable running workshops and presenting to groups (students, faculty, professional audiences).
• Good understanding of the legal profession's structure (law schools, firms, vocational training, regulators).
• Enthusiasm for, experience of, or a willingness to learn, about legal technology.
• Organised, articulate, reliable and personable.

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.

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