Principal Curriculum Designer - JD, CoCounsel Legal

Group: ONE PS Training Team, Professional Services, Corporates

Title: Principal Curriculum Designer, CoCounsel Legal

Location: Eagan, MN (Hybrid - Requires 3 days in office)

Job Description

Thomson Reuters ONE PS Training Team is seeking an energetic Principal Curriculum Designer to join our dynamic, global team. In this role, you'll use your legal know-how to create a training program that empowers customers to maximize efficiency, streamline workflows, and fully harness the transformative capabilities of our cutting-edge CoCounsel Legal (AI-powered legal solutions). As part of a high-profile investment in advanced AI technology, you'll help customers unlock the full potential of generative AI in legal workflows-making a direct impact at the forefront of legal technology and shaping innovative customer experiences.

As a Principal Curriculum Designer, you will play a vital role in empowering customers to maximize their use of CoCounsel Legal and other legal products. You will use your corporate legal expertise and experience with legal AI technology, to support the creation and maintenance of a wide range of training courses and certifications that support customer engagement and adoption of CoCounsel Legal. As a Principal Curriculum Designer, you understand corporate legal challenges and show how CoCounsel addresses them while unlocking measurable efficiency and new opportunities for attorneys. You will facilitate and organize the development of a comprehensive training program that features blended learning and certification opportunities spanning product, adoption, and business transformation. You will also partner closely with the Lead Curriculum Designer, Learning Experience Designer, Technical Trainer, and Professional Services Consultants-as well as with customers, including general counsel offices-to design and validate a bestinclass training program.

If you're a self-starter who thrives in fast-paced environments, rapidly masters new concepts, and brings contagious enthusiasm to every challenge, this is your opportunity to make a meaningful difference by elevating customer experiences and driving real value through innovative legal technology.

About the Role

As a Principal Curriculum Designer, you will:

• Research, write, and maintain current and practical CoCounsel legal training and certification content aligned with market practice, customer needs, and business objectives
• Review and synthesize content from colleagues and external experts, to create training that successfully drives business transformation, AI-first mindsets, and deep CoCounsel expertise for customers and partners
• Stay current on professional-grade AI, legal practice, and market developments to ensure content remains accurate, relevant, and aligned to business goals
• Use your legal and gen-AI expertise to support the Learning Experience Designer(s) in creating training across various formats such as live instructor-led workshops, webinars, office hours, on-demand workshops, eLearning, videos, certification exams, and toolkits
• Develop and maintain relationships with corporate lawyers, industry groups, and the wider Thomson Reuters team (product management, sales, marketing, product & industry, and technology) to ensure content reflects current market practice
• Build and maintain deep product expertise in CoCounsel Legal and across the legal product portfolio
• Proactively use Thomson Reuters gen-AI tools to accelerate work, improve deliverables, and iterate quickly; continuously learn new AI features and best practices
• Record time and engagement details to support utilization reporting
• Support training operations to upload training content into LMS and other operational tasks as needed
• Work in-office at least three days per week as part of a hybrid schedule

About You

You're a fit for the role of Principal Curriculum Designer, if you have:

• Juris Doctorate (JD) with bar admission in at least one U.S. state (preferred)
• Minimum of 3 years of experience as a practicing attorney in a General Counsel office (preferred), or at least 3 years as a practicing attorney handling compliance or transactional matters
• Experience with legal technology (e.g., CoCounsel Legal, Westlaw, Practical Law, Legal Tracker, HighQ)
• Experience utilizing AI tools within legal practice, with a commitment to attaining expertise in CoCounsel Legal if not already achieved
• Knowledge of the needs and priorities of corporate attorneys, including experience in drafting and negotiating agreements and other corporate forms, policies, and standard practice materials
• Excellent written and verbal communication; able to explain complex concepts clearly and simply
• Experience in driving business transformation within a corporate legal department or law firm (business transformation around legal solutions is a plus)
• Effectiveness working across a complex, matrixed organization to build alignment
• Experience leading cross-functional projects and delivering results on time
• Strong collaboration and independent work habits
• Strong technical skills leveraging generative and agentic AI, adaptable across diverse and emerging tech, with a curious mindset on the evolving AI-legal intersection

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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.

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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