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Job Description
As a Manager, General Counsel, you will serve as a trusted legal advisor and strategic business partner for Thomson Reuters' operations in Mexico and across the Latin America region. You will provide practical, business-oriented legal counsel on a broad range of commercial, technology, regulatory, and operational matters, helping the organization achieve its objectives while appropriately managing legal risk.
This role requires a seasoned legal professional with strong judgment, leadership capabilities, and the ability to operate independently in a dynamic and fast-paced environment. Reporting directly to the LATAM General Counsel and leading a local legal team, you will work closely with business leaders and cross-functional stakeholders to deliver pragmatic solutions that support growth and innovation.
Key Responsibilities
In this opportunity as a Manager, General Counsel, you will:
- Provide strategic legal advice and guidance to business leaders on commercial, operational, regulatory, and corporate matters.
- Draft, review, negotiate, and manage a wide variety of commercial agreements, with particular emphasis on technology-related transactions and complex customer arrangements.
- Identify legal and regulatory risks and develop practical solutions that balance risk management with business objectives.
- Lead and develop members of the legal team, fostering collaboration, accountability, and professional growth.
- Serve as a trusted advisor to senior management, supporting key business initiatives and strategic projects.
- Partner with internal stakeholders across sales, product, technology, finance, procurement, compliance, and other functions.
- Manage disputes, escalations, and sensitive legal matters, exercising sound judgment and determining when issues require escalation.
- Support the implementation and enforcement of company policies, governance standards, and compliance programs.
- Drive continuous improvement in legal processes, contract management practices, and operational efficiency.
- Build strong relationships across the LATAM region while effectively supporting a geographically distributed business organization.
Required Qualifications
You are an ideal fit for the Manager, General Counsel role if your experience includes:
- Law degree and qualification to practice law in the relevant jurisdiction. Law degree and qualification to practice law in the relevant jurisdiction. Law degree and qualification to practice law in the relevant jurisdiction.
- Significant post-qualification legal experience, including substantial experience supporting technology companies, software businesses, or technology-driven commercial operations.
- Extensive experience drafting, negotiating, and advising on complex commercial agreements.
- Demonstrated ability to provide practical, business-focused legal advice in fast-paced and evolving environments.
- Strong legal judgment and proven ability to independently assess risks and make sound decisions.
- Experience leading, mentoring, and developing legal professionals.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate effectively across all levels of the organization.
- Experience managing multiple priorities and complex matters simultaneously while maintaining high-quality legal support.
- Strong communication skills, including the ability to explain legal concepts clearly to non-legal audiences.
- Fluency in Spanish and English.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience supporting multinational organizations operating across Latin America.
- Previous experience in-house within a technology, information services, software, or digital solutions company.
- Demonstrated success partnering with commercial and operational teams to enable business growth while managing legal risk.
- Experience advising on data privacy, artificial intelligence, digital products, intellectual property, and emerging technology matters.
- Experience working in matrix organizations with regional or international reporting structures.
- Portuguese language skills are considered an advantage.
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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.
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.
As a global business, we rely on the unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences of all employees to deliver on our business goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer providing a drug-free workplace.
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