Thomson Reuters

Director, Content Marketing

Thomson Reuters$137K — $254K *
Legal & Accounting
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7+ years in content strategy and editorial leadership, especially in B2B SaaS or similar sectors
  • 3+ years experience in leading and scaling teams
  • Proven track record of creating impactful original content programs
  • Strong editorial judgment with the ability to make critical revisions
  • Familiarity with AI content tools and strategies for maintaining voice and accuracy
  • Strong communication skills for engaging with senior executives
  • Proficient in content performance analytics and marketing data
  • Knowledge of legal or professional services markets is a plus.

Responsibilities

  • Define and implement the editorial strategy for Legal Professionals content
  • Develop content that drives pipeline and demand generation
  • Manage the content operating model including workflows and editorial calendar
  • Lead a high-performing content team and collaborate with internal partners
  • Establish a measurement framework for content effectiveness
  • Enhance organic traffic and content-influenced pipeline metrics
  • Build relationships to extend the content network with contributors and agencies.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model allowing flexible office presence
  • Work-life balance initiatives including flexible vacation and two mental health days
  • Opportunities for career development and skill training
  • Comprehensive benefits including health, dental, vision, and tuition reimbursement
  • Award-winning company culture focusing on inclusion and belonging
  • Social impact initiatives with paid volunteer days and ESG projects
  • Recognition as a company committed to justice and transparency.
Full Job Description

Summary of the role

The legal industry is in the middle of its most consequential technology shift in a generation. Generative AI is rewriting how lawyers research, draft, and advise, and the firms that get this right will define the next decade of legal practice. Thomson Reuters sits at the center of that shift.

This role leads the content engine behind that strategy.You'llsetthe editorial agenda for our Legal Professionals business, shape how the market understands the future of legalwork, andbuild the content programs that drive demand forCoCounsel, Westlaw, Practical Law, HighQ, andNoetica.

You'llreport to the VP ofRevenueMarketing - Legal and Government, and partner closely with Brand,Product Marketing,Thomson Reuters Institute, Communications, Product, and Sales leadership.You'lllead a team of writers, strategists, and producers.

About the Role

Whatyou'llown

  • Editorial strategy.The themes, narratives, and point of view we bring to market across the Legal Professionals portfolio, grounded in deep customer understanding, commercial priorities, and a clear competitive read.

  • Content that drivespipeline.Organic search and SEO, demand generation content for nurture and conversion, sales enablement, and integrated content for launches and campaigns.

  • The content operating model.Editorial calendar, production workflows, distribution across paid, owned, earned, and partner channels, and the measurement framework that ties content to business outcomes.

  • Team and partner network.A high-performing team of content leaders, writers, and producers, extending via relationships with our internal Studio, agency, and contributor network.

Outcomesyou'lldrive in year one

  • A defined editorial point of viewthat'srecognized in the market, measured through share of voice

  • Measurable lift in organic traffic and content-influenced pipeline across the Legal Professionals portfolio.

  • A content team and operating model that scales with the business, including a clear bar for AI-assisted production that protects voice, accuracy, and authority.

About You

  • 7+ years in content strategy and editorial leadership at a B2B SaaS, professional services, or media company, with 3+ years leading and scaling a team.

  • A track recordof building original content programs thatmoveda market, not just produced volume. You can point to specific franchises and what theyearnedthe business.

  • Strong editorial judgment. You can read a draft, namewhat'swrong with it, and rewrite theledeyourself when needed.

  • Fluency with AI content tools and a clear point of view on how to use them without flattening voice or eroding accuracy.

  • Comfort working with senior executives, including extracting their point of view, ghostwriting at their level, and pushing back when needed.

  • Fluency with content performance data and marketing analytics. You manage to numbers without losing the craft.

  • Familiarity with the modern content stack: CMS, content operations platforms (Workfront, Contently, Writer), SEO and analytics tools, and AI-assisted production.

  • Experience in legal, regulated, or professional services markets is a strong plus. If youdon'have it,you'vemoved into a complex vertical before andgottensmart fast.

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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 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. Eligible office location(s) for this role include one or more of the following: New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and/or Irvine, CA; McLean, VA; Washington, DC. The base compensation range for the role in any of those locations is $158,100 USD - $293,500 USD. For any eligible US locations, unless otherwise noted, the base compensation range for this role is $137,200 USD - $254,800 USD. 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. This role may also be eligible for an Annual Bonus based on a combination of enterprise and individual performance.

About Thomson Reuters

Thomson Reuters Corporation is a Canadian multinational media conglomerate. The company was founded in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, where it is headquartered at 333 Bay Street. Thomson Reuters provides professionals with the intelligence, technology, and human expertise they need to find trusted answers in the financial and risk, legal, tax and accounting, and media markets. The company is dual-listed on the New York Stock Exchange and the Toronto Stock Exchange. In 2019, the company reported revenues of $5.9 billion and net income of $1.3 billion.
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