Senior Counsel, Engineering & Technology

Senior Counsel Engineering & Technology

Are you looking for an opportunity to provide practical legal counsel on cutting-edge engineering initiatives emerging technologies and strategic technology investments Thomson Reuters is seeking a Senior Counsel Engineering & Technology to join our General Counsels this role you will support Thomson Reuters Engineering and Technology organization including our Innovation Labs by advising on legal regulatory and reputational risks across the technology development lifecycle including software engineering platform architecture emerging technology research technology partnerships and emerging areas of law. This position may be based in our U.S. offices in Minneapolis or Dallas or in our Canadian office in Toronto.

About the Role

In this opportunity as a Senior Counsel Engineering & Technology you will:

• Advise engineering and technology partners on legal issues arising across the technology development lifecycle from concept through deployment for new platforms systems and technical capabilities across Thomson Reuters products and services.

• Identify and manage risk: Assess legal regulatory and reputational risks associated with software development data usage and emerging technologies and provide practical business-oriented guidance that supports informed engineering decision-making.

• Support innovation and research initiatives: Advise the Innovation Labs on the legal implications of research projects proofs of concept and emerging technology pilots including artificial intelligence machine learning and other frontier technologies.

• Advance compliance best practices: Develop and implement regulatory compliance best practices particularly in artificial intelligence data privacy and security open source software usage intellectual property and related laws and regulations.

• Enable strategic initiatives: Provide legal support for technology partnerships vendor and licensing arrangements integrations strategic alliances and co-development arrangements with technology providers and research institutions.

• Build scalable legal resources: Create update and deliver training materials playbooks templates and other legal resources for engineering technology and Innovation Labs partners.

About You

Youre a fit for the role of Senior Counsel Engineering & Technology if your background includes:

• Juris Doctor degree and admission to practice or eligibility to practice in Minnesota Texas or Ontario; active license in good standing.

• 4 years of experience in a law firm and/or corporate legal department advising on technology transactions software licensing data privacy intellectual property or related matters.

• Familiarity with artificial intelligence regulation data privacy and cybersecurity laws open-source software licensing and intellectual property law.

• Ability to serve as a trusted collaborative partner to Engineering Technology and Innovation Labs teams helping balance legal risk with business objectives and the long-term interests of Thomson Reuters.

• Strong process orientation with the ability to build improve and scale internal processes documentation and systems.

• Sound judgment intellectual curiosity initiative and creativity in solving complex legal and business problems.

• Ability to work effectively and inclusively as part of a diverse cross-functional team.

• Experience with technical disciplines software engineering or computer science is a plus.
• Registered U.S. Patent Attorney is a plus.

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

Whats in it For You

• Hybrid Work Model: Weve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment 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 tomorrows 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.

Our use of AI within the recruitment process Thomson Reuters utilizes Artificial Intelligence (AI) to support parts of our global recruitment process. Unless you opt-out our AI system will assess the information provided by you and compare it to the requirements listed for the role and present the result to our recruitment personnel for further review. The AI system acts as a supporting tool but there is always a human making the decision if you will be considered for the role.

In the United States Thomson Reuters offers a comprehensive benefits package to our employees. Our benefit package includes market competitive health dental vision disability and life insurance programs as well as a competitive 401k plan with company addition Thomson Reuters offers market leading work life benefits with competitive vacation sick and safe paid time off paid holidays (including two company mental health days off) parental leave sabbatical leave. These benefits meet or exceeds the requirements of paid time off in accordance with any applicable state or municipal laws. Finally Thomson Reuters offers the following additional benefits: optional hospital accident and sickness insurance paid 100% by the employee; optional life and AD&D insurance paid 100% by the employee; Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts; fitness reimbursement; access to Employee Assistance Program; Group Legal Identity Theft Protection benefit paid 100% by employee; access to 529 Plan; commuter benefits; Adoption & Surrogacy Assistance; Tuition Reimbursement; and access to Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

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 any eligible US locations unless otherwise noted the base compensation range for this role is $119700 USD - $222300 USD. For Ontario Canada the base compensation range for this role is $126000 CAD - $176000 CAD. Base pay is positioned within the range based on several factors including an individuals knowledge skills and experience with consideration given to internal equity. Base pay is one part of a comprehensive Total Reward program which also includes flexible and supportive benefits and other wellbeing programs. This role may also be eligible for an Annual Bonus based on a combination of enterprise and individual performance.

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 26000 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.

As a global business we rely on the unique backgrounds perspectives and experiences of all employees to deliver on our business 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 Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

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