Senior Director, Product Management – Transactional Use Cases

Job Description

This is an exciting opportunity to deepen CoCounsel’s capabilities for one of the highest-value workflows in the legal market: transactional practice. CoCounsel is Thomson Reuters’ generative AI platform for legal professionals, already trusted across law firms for research, drafting, and review. The next opportunity includes deal work across M&A, financings, real estate, capital markets, diligence, drafting, and negotiation.

As Senior Director, Product Management – Transactional Use Cases, you will own the discovery and definition of what CoCounsel needs to become for deal lawyers. You will work closely with transactional attorneys, translate customer needs into a prioritized roadmap, and lead a team of product managers to turn that roadmap into shipped product. The role reports to the Co-Head of Product for CoCounsel Legal.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the roadmap: Define and own the transactional use case roadmap for CoCounsel, translating insights from deal lawyers, practice group leaders, and firm innovation teams into a focused and deliverable plan.

• Understand the customer: Develop deep understanding of where transactional teams lose time and face risk across the deal lifecycle, from diligence through closing.

• Lead the team: Manage and grow a team of two to three product managers, setting priorities, reviewing work, and developing strong product judgment.

• Shape the product: Identify opportunities beyond obvious automation and develop use cases that solve meaningful problems for deal teams.

• Deliver across the business: Partner with Engineering, Design, Marketing, and go-to-market teams to move transactional use cases from concept through launch.

• Represent the customer: Bring the transactional customer perspective into roadmap and prioritization decisions.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a deal lawyer at an AmLaw 100 firm
  , with hands-on transactional experience in areas such as M&A, finance, capital markets, real estate, or similar.

• Comfort working with generative AI and modern product tooling
  .

• Ability to engage credibly with Engineering teams about what is realistic and feasible to build; coding experience is not required.

• Strong creative instincts and customer empathy.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading or developing product management teams.

• Experience translating complex transactional workflows into product or technology solutions.

• Experience working cross-functionally with Engineering, Design, Marketing, and go-to-market teams.

This posting is for proactive recruitment purposes and may be used to fill current openings or future vacancies within our organization.

What’s in it For You?

• 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.
• 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…