Sr. Account Executive, Legal

About the Role

In this opportunity, as Sr. Account Executive you will:

• Prospecting: Actively seek out new business opportunities with both new and existing customers to build a strong sales pipeline. Keep your sales pipeline clean and up to date, aiming for 3-4 times coverage of your sales targets on a monthly and quarterly basis.
• Account Management: Handle a list of major accounts (companies with revenues of $500M+), leading the entire sales process through account planning, to include initial contact, account planning, deal closing to renewal.
• Sales Goals: Meet or exceed your revenue targets.
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Work closely with other teams within the organization to tailor our solutions to address the customer needs.
• Relationship Building: Establish and maintain strong relationships with key decision-makers and stakeholders, understanding their challenges and demonstrating how our solutions can address them.
• Salesforce Maintenance: Regularly update our CRM system (salesforce.com) to maintain accurate records of your sales activities and to provide reliable sales forecasts. Engage in direct client meetings either in person or via platforms like MS Teams.

Responsibilities

This position is responsible for developing account plans for new and/or existing accounts. Prospects new customers and new business at existing customers and close full solution sales to corporate customers.

Responsible for securing new sales and growing and retaining existing accounts selling Legal Tracker, HighQ, Practical Law Connect, Practical Law, Westlaw, and other legal solution and workflow tools to prospective customer base of attorneys working for Corporations with annual revenue of $500M or greater.

Qualifications

You're a fit for the role of Sr. Account Executive, if you have:

• Bachelor's degree preferred
• 7+ years enterprise field sales (corporate sector preferred)
• Proven track record selling complex enterprise software to $500M+ organizations using consultative, value-based approaches; consistent quota overachievement
• Skilled at C-suite engagement and solution selling—diagnosing business challenges, quantifying the cost of inaction, and building compelling business cases
• Leads multifaceted sales cycles end to end—from proactive prospecting to close—coordinating stakeholders and executing structured account plans
• Self-starter with a growth mindset; comfortable with ambiguity and effective at driving change
• Deep understanding of AI and how it improves corporate legal department operations; strong alignment with company mission
• Collaborative partner across marketing, product, and legal to achieve shared objectives
• Helps refine GTM strategy, value proposition, sales tools, and team culture to boost overall success

Location & Travel

Remote based role. Candidate must live in or be close to assigned territory or travel into their assigned territory. Remote home office; 25–50% travel.

Territory: MI/IN/OH/KY/TN

What's in it For You?

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
• Resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing
• Market competitive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance programs
• Competitive 401k plan with company match
• 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
• Optional hospital, accident and sickness insurance
• Optional life and AD&D insurance
• Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts
• Fitness reimbursement
• Access to Employee Assistance Program
• Group Legal Identity Theft Protection benefit
• Access to 529 Plan
• Commuter benefits
• Adoption & Surrogacy Assistance
• Access to Employee Stock Purchase Plan

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.

Compensation

The target total cash compensation range varies across locations. For any eligible US locations, unless otherwise noted, the target total cash compensation range for this role is $189,000 USD - $351,000 USD. 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 and any target sales incentive are part of a comprehensive Total Reward program which also includes flexible and supportive benefits and other wellbeing programs. This is inclusive of both base pay and any target sales incentive.

About Thomson Reuters

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.

Additional Information

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Posting Close Date: 03/14/2026