Product Manager - FDE

Thomson Reuters•United States of America, NY

7d•Hybrid

About The Position

We are seeking a Product Manager to lead product execution and support the CoCounsel Legal Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) team, focused on disciplined execution, customer engagement, and end‑to‑end AI product lifecycle management across deployments. This role is customer‑facing and requires familiarity or keen interest with the legal industry and how legal teams operate in practice. The Product Manager will work directly with corporate customers and Forward Deployed Engineers to ensure bespoke products & integration patterns as part of FDE engagements are well defined, well managed, and intentionally productized into scalable AI product capabilities over time.

Requirements

4–6 years of product management experience, ideally in enterprise SaaS or integration / implementation‑heavy environments.
Customer‑facing interest or experience with legal teams, legal operations, or related enterprise workflows.
Strong organizational skills and comfort managing complex backlogs across multiple engagements.
Ability to translate ambiguous customer needs into clear product requirements.

Nice To Haves

Exposure to AI‑enabled products, APIs, or workflow platforms is a plus.

Responsibilities

Partner directly with legal stakeholders to understand workflows, pain points, and operational constraints.
Oversee execution & delivery and support engagements with customers alongside Forward Deployed Engineers.
Translate customer input into clear product requirements and acceptance criteria.
Own & maintain backlogs across FDE engagements, ensuring strong hygiene, prioritization, and transparency.
Ensure work is clearly scoped, sequenced, and tracked across discovery, build, validation and hand-off.
Support dependency management and execution planning with engineering partners.
Manage product work from initial intake through development, launch and transition to core product teams.
Ensure decisions, context, and learnings from deployments are well documented and reusable.
Support release readiness and communication with internal stakeholders.
Identify opportunities to convert customer-specific solutions into repeatable product capabilities.
Work with Senior Product Managers and core product teams to define when work should remain custom-specific versus when it should be generalized.

Benefits

Flexible hybrid working environment
Flex My Way policies
Work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year
Grow My Way programming
Skills-first approach
Flexible vacation
Two company-wide Mental Health Days off
Access to the Headspace app
Retirement savings
Tuition reimbursement
Employee incentive programs
Resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing
Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance
Two paid volunteer days off annually
Opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.
Market competitive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance programs
Competitive 401k plan with company match
Competitive vacation, sick and safe paid time off
Paid holidays
Parental leave
Sabbatical leave
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
Access to Employee Stock Purchase Plan