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Job Description
The Legal Content Customer Success Manager supports customers across our Corporate Legal suite of products, including a foucsed portfolio of enterprise and strategic customers. The ideal candidate is comfortable engaging with executives at our largest customers—setting direction for the team, modeling best-in-class customer and product success practices and rolling up their sleeves to drive outcomes for our customers. You'll be able to deliver measurable customer outcomes through structured Customer Success Plans (CSPs), executive business reviews (EBRs), and proactive customer check-ins. You will focus on adoption, value realization, and expansion in partnership with Sales and Professional Services.
Key Responsibilities
In this opportunity as a Legal Content Customer Success Manager, you will be responsible for:
- Being a deep product expert on our AI-enabled CoCounsel suite of products.
- Delivering all aspects of the customer success motion to assigned customers, in combination with deep CoCounsel product expertise. Including, but not limited to: co-creating customer success plans, delivery executive business reviews, demonstrate value, identifying and mitigating risk while retaining and growing the customers relationship with Thomson Reuters.
- Serving as a deep product expert in event settings, like industry conferences, Thomson Reuters Conferences, Webinars, virtual and in-person engagements.
- Developing enablement for customers in partnership to serve our digital strategy.
- Developing enablement to educate Thomson Reuters employees.
- Building and presenting business plans, report on market and competitor activities, and represent Customer Success in cross-functional meetings to support business objectives.
- Effectively partnering with all relevant internal and external partners and stakeholders.
- Leveraging technology tools (e.g., Gainsight, Salesforce, Gong) to manage client information, pipeline, and financial forecasts accurately.
Key Outcomes
- Increased customer adoption and time-to-value across CoCounsel solutions.
- Identify and drive expansion across your assigned customer portfolio.
- High-quality, consistent delivery of CSPs, EBRs, and check-ins across the team.
- Clear visibility and action plans for at-risk accounts
- Strong cross-functional collaboration that improves customer experience and advocacy. Model best-in-class customer and product success practices through hands-on work with your own accounts and translate those practices into scalable playbooks, processes, and enablement for the broader team.
Required Qualifications
- 3+ years of experience working or managing Customer Success portfolios/teams (SaaS preferred); experience with Business, Law, Computer Science, Consulting, Engineering, or a related discipline is a plus.
- Experienced in delivering positive customer outcomes through value stories and customer references. Must have experience with Success metrics and ability to quantify and share back with the business on enterprise/strategic accounts
- Demonstrated passion through delivering outcomes in a high-performing team. Energized and elevated others; lead with empathy, clarity, and accountability.
- Proven track record driving retention, adoption, and expansion with enterprise or strategic accounts.
- Hands-on experience with Gong, and Salesforce (or similar CS/CRM platforms).
- Prior experience in the legal technology sector or direct experience working with legal professionals, law firms, or corporate legal departments is highly preferred. Understanding of legal workflows, terminology, and common challenges.
- Functional/technical skills in GenAI systems and AI prompting engineering; particularly as they apply to legal research, drafting, and analysis.
- Strong executive presence: excellent communication, stakeholder management, and facilitation skills for EBRs and executive check-ins.
- Strong business acumen and communication skills; can manage a customer journey, conflict resolution and problem-solving.
- Demonstrate these skills: curiosity, learning agility, proactive, work urgently, strategic thinking, problem solver, collaborative, accountable.
- Live our TR core values: Obsess over customers, compete to win, challenge your thinking, act fast, learn fast, and be stronger together—driving impact through curiosity, speed, and collaboration.
- Bachelor’s degree required; master’s degree or J.D. is a plus. Ability to travel 25% .
Preferred Qualifications
- Juris Doctor (JD)
- Masters Degree Legal Experience
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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.
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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What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in legal manager jobs.
- Juris Doctor degree and active state bar admission
- 5 or more years of legal experience with at least 2 in a supervisory role
- Demonstrated contract drafting, review, and negotiation experience
- Proficiency with legal matter management and e-billing software
- Experience advising business units on regulatory compliance requirements
- Strong written communication skills for executive-level legal memos and reports
Tips for Your Legal Manager Job Search
Tailor your resume to contract types
Legal manager roles vary sharply by contract focus, commercial, employment, vendor, or regulatory. Pull the specific contract categories mentioned in each posting and mirror that language in your resume's experience bullets so your background reads as a direct match.
Highlight your team oversight experience
Most legal manager postings require demonstrated people management, not just legal expertise. Quantify how many attorneys, paralegals, or outside counsel relationships you've managed, and describe how you structured workflows, deadlines, or matter assignments across your team.
Get your bar status and JD front and center
Many employers filter applications by active bar membership before reading further. Place your bar admissions, state, and JD institution in the top section of your resume, not buried under experience, so recruiters confirm eligibility at a glance.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists legal manager openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Prepare a matter management walk-through
Interviewers for legal manager positions almost always ask how you've handled high-volume or high-stakes matters from intake to resolution. Prepare a concise, specific example that covers your triage process, stakeholder communication, and how you resolved competing deadlines.
Negotiate scope alongside compensation
Legal manager offers often leave room to negotiate reporting lines, outside counsel authority, and budget ownership, not just salary. Clarifying these in the offer stage protects your day-to-day authority and sets clearer expectations before your first week.
Legal Manager Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most legal managers?
The companies hiring the most legal managers right now include Amazon, Meta, and ICW, with the largest share of openings in California, New York, and Texas, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Healthcare systems, financial institutions, and large technology companies consistently post the highest volume of in-house legal manager roles.
How many legal manager jobs are remote?
About 63% of legal manager openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, with availability varying significantly by industry and employer size. Compliance-focused and contracts-heavy roles tend to offer the most remote flexibility, while litigation management and roles requiring regular court or government agency contact are more likely to require on-site presence.
How do you become a legal manager?
Start by earning a Juris Doctor and passing the bar exam in at least one state, then spend several years practicing in a specialty such as contracts, employment law, or regulatory compliance. Build supervisory experience by leading small legal teams or managing outside counsel relationships. Employers expect candidates to demonstrate both substantive legal judgment and the ability to manage people, processes, and budgets before moving into a legal manager title.
Can you get hired as a legal manager without direct management experience?
It's possible if you've led projects, coordinated outside counsel, or informally supervised paralegals and junior associates, even without a direct reports line on your resume. Frame those contributions explicitly as leadership experience. Targeting smaller companies or newly created legal manager roles gives you a better opening, since those employers often prioritize deep subject-matter expertise over formal management history.
What does the legal manager interview process look like?
Most legal manager interview processes move through an initial screening call with HR, a substantive conversation with the general counsel or chief legal officer, and at least one round with business unit leaders you'd be advising. Expect scenario-based questions about how you've handled contract disputes, compliance gaps, or team conflicts. Some employers add a written exercise asking you to review a sample contract or draft a brief legal memo.
Where can I find and apply to legal manager jobs?
You can find and apply to legal manager jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States in one place. Search the roles available, find the ones that match your experience and specialty area, and apply directly to each listing that fits.
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