Principal Consultant, Professional Services - AI Services

About the Role

In this opportunity for the Principal Consultant, Professional Services role you will:

• Serve as the primary point of contact for customers throughout the adoption lifecycle of CoCounsel Legal and CoCounsel for Tax and Trade AI products.
• Develop and execute tailored adoption strategies that align with customer objectives, business processes, and industry best practices.
• Lead onboarding sessions, workshops, and training programs to empower customers and their teams to effectively utilize AI-driven legal and tax workflow solutions.
• Collaborate with customer stakeholders—including legal, tax, trade, and IT teams—to identify opportunities for process optimization and enhanced productivity using CoCounsel tools.
• Monitor customer engagement and usage metrics, proactively addressing barriers to adoption and driving continuous improvement.
• Provide expert guidance on change management, solution configuration, and integration with existing platforms.
• Gather customer feedback and partner with Product and Engineering teams to inform roadmap decisions and advocate for feature enhancements.
• Deliver executive-level presentations, adoption reports, and recommendations to demonstrate value and ROI to customers.
• Stay abreast of developments in legal, tax, and trade technology and share thought leadership with customers and internal teams.

About You

You're a fit for the Principal Consultant, Professional Services role of if you have:

• Bachelor’s degree in Law, Tax, Business, Computer Science, or related field; advanced degree or relevant certifications preferred.
• 10+ years of experience in professional services, consulting, or solution delivery within the AI, legal, tax, or trade domains.
• Certified Change Management Professional (CCMP) and/or Lean Six Sigma Greenbelt.
• Proven track record of leading customer adoption initiatives for SaaS, AI, or enterprise software solutions.
• Strong understanding of legal and tax workflows, industry regulations, and business process improvement.
• Exceptional communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Analytical mindset with the ability to interpret usage data and translate insights into actionable strategies.
• Experience with change management, training program development, and user enablement.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced, customer-centric environment.
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to demystify complex issues with senior decision makers and collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive results
• Customer Service – experience working with customers on a range of different projects, delivering excellent customer service
• Communications/Status Reporting – ability to effectively communicate findings and solutions to customer and prepare status updates for projects and regularly communicate and share knowledge with the customer and the team
• Monitoring costs of own work in alignment with project plan
• Accountability for the quality of own work and delivery within agreed procedures and timeframes
• Accountability for determining the approach used to address routine professional issues

Preferred Skills

• Familiarity with AI-powered legal or tax technologies and their application.
• Experience designing and implementing adoption frameworks specific to AI for new software solutions.
• Knowledge of integration with enterprise systems (, document management, case management, ERP platforms).
• Consultative approach with a focus on delivering measurable customer outcomes.
• Experience in a Corporate Legal department.

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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.

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 match. In 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 $99,400 - $184,600.
This role may also be eligible for an Annual Bonus based on a combination of enterprise and individual performance.
Base pay is positioned within the range based on several factors including an individual’s 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.

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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