Lead Product Manager – Legal Practice Areas

Wolters Kluwer•Torrance, CA

4d•$128,900 - $226,050

About The Position

The Lead Product Manager provides customer- and market-driven product leadership for one or more legal practice areas within the Legal Markets Group portfolio. The role serves as a subject-matter expert and market interpreter, translating customer needs, legal developments, and competitive dynamics into product and go-to-market direction. It partners closely with Editorial and other Product Managers to align customer insight, content strategy, and commercial execution. The position may also contribute selectively to enterprise-wide initiatives requiring legal or market expertise. The role owns product direction and execution for assigned practice areas, from discovery through ongoing optimization, and serves as the product authority on legal workflows, customer jobs-to-be-done, and use cases. It leads practice-area-specific go-to-market execution, collaborates with Product Marketing and Marketing, and supports Sales on complex opportunities and customer-facing events. It also monitors practice-area performance and provides recommendations on positioning, packaging, messaging, and portfolio decisions. The Lead Product Manager does not own the content roadmap, but ensures that it is informed by customer and market insight. The listed compensation range is $128,900 to $226,050 USD, and the role is eligible for a bonus. The actual base salary offer may vary based on factors including skills, experience, and hiring location.

Requirements

JD or equivalent legal background strongly preferred; meaningful legal industry experience will also be considered.
At least 7 years of experience in product management, legal publishing, legal research, or professional information services.
Ability to work credibly with attorneys, legal departments, and legal associations.
Demonstrated customer-facing and go-to-market experience.
Proven ability to translate legal complexity into product and customer value.

Nice To Haves

JD or equivalent legal background.
Meaningful legal industry experience.

Responsibilities

Act as the primary source of customer and market insight for assigned legal practice areas.
Engage regularly with customers and prospects, Sales and account management teams, external practitioners, advisors, and industry bodies.
Analyze legal, regulatory, and market trends to anticipate customer needs, inform product direction and go-to-market strategy, and surface risks and opportunities.
Synthesize insights into recommendations for product priorities, roadmap discussions, go-to-market messaging and positioning, and portfolio and lifecycle reviews.
Own product direction and execution for assigned legal practice areas from discovery through ongoing optimization.
Serve as the product authority on legal workflows, customer jobs-to-be-done, and practice-area use cases.
Translate legal complexity into product requirements and customer-oriented value narratives.
Lead practice-area-specific go-to-market execution, including use cases, workflow definition, value proposition and positioning inputs, and product and feature launch readiness.
Partner with Product Marketing and Marketing to review copy for legal accuracy and credibility and ensure campaigns reflect customer needs and legal workflows.
Support Sales through complex-deal support, customer briefings, webinars, industry events, and practice-area competitive positioning guidance.
Partner with Editorial leadership to align product direction with content strategy and translate editorial strengths into differentiated product value.
Coordinate with the Lead Product Manager responsible for the content roadmap, contributing customer and market insight to prioritization and aligning practice-area needs with portfolio decisions.
Monitor adoption, usage, retention, customer feedback, revenue, and pipeline signals in partnership with Sales and Finance.
Identify opportunities to improve positioning, packaging, and messaging; enable cross-sell and upsell; and address underperforming offerings.
Provide insights and recommendations for pricing, packaging, and portfolio discussions without owning pricing governance.