Senior Specialist Legal Editor, Capital Markets – Startups

Thomson Reuters

Senior Specialist Legal Editor creating legal content for startup companies within a dynamic editorial team. Joining Thomson Reuters to support AI-driven legal solutions and market innovation.

Posted 7/7/2026full-timeRemote • District of Columbia, Minnesota, Missouri, New York, Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $119,700 - $222,300 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Researching, drafting, and maintaining clear, current, and practical legal know-how content addressing the needs of startup companies for Practical Law and other Thomson Reuters products and initiatives in alignment with market practice, customer needs, and business objectives , using a variety of evolving tools, formats, and content development methods.
Monitoring legal, practice, and market developments impacting startups to ensure personal skills and expertise and that our content remains relevant and accurate.
Using your legal expertise to support the development of customer-focused AI-powered tools , including identifying and implementing methods that address the intersection of content development and AI-driven legal solutions.
Partnering with Product Management to innovate on tech development, product enhancements, and the integration of AI into TR's offerings.
Using your legal expertise and writing skills to support the development and application of internal AI editorial tools.
Establishing and maintaining relationships with external law firm contributors and industry groups to ensure content reflects market practice and meets customer needs.
Supporting sales, marketing, and other parts of the business, including responding to customer inquiries.

Requirements

What you’ll need

JD required.
Minimum of eight (8) years' experience working as a lawyer in a law firm or in-house with a significant amount of experience working with startup companies.
Strong technical skills and the ability to effectively utilize various tools, including generative AI technologies, to enhance productivity and accuracy.
Demonstrated adaptability and flexibility to work on diverse projects and tasks within the generative AI space as well as new and emerging technologies.
Deep curiosity about the increasing intersection of AI and legal practice, with a desire to build legal prompt engineering skills and innovative content development methods that optimize AI responses for specific legal tasks.
Understand current market issues and proposals to enact, amend, or change laws and regulations impacting US startups.
Understand the needs and priorities of law firm attorneys, in-house counsel, and other startups professionals.
Skill and passion for writing and the ability to write about complex legal issues clearly and concisely in plain English.
Innovative, agile thinker with excellent time management, organizational skills, and demonstrated project management.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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.

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Hard Skills & Tools

Legal ResearchContent DevelopmentLegal WritingAI Prompt EngineeringMarket AnalysisRegulatory ComplianceStartup Law ExpertiseTechnical Writing

Soft Skills

AdaptabilityOrganizational SkillsTime ManagementInnovative ThinkingCollaboration

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