Chief of Staff

Thomson Reuters
life insurance, parental leave, paid time off, paid holidays, tuition reimbursement, 401(k)
United States, New York, New York
3 Times Square (Show on map)
May 07, 2025
About the Role We are seeking an elite Chief of Staff to partner directly with the President of Legal Professionals. This is a high-trust, high-impact role for an exceptional operator who can think strategically, execute relentlessly, and serve as an extension of the President's presence and priorities across the organization and beyond. The Chief of Staff is responsible for making the President and the leadership team more focused, productive, and effective. You will help drive clarity and action across the company's most critical work, attend key meetings and major trips, and act as a central force in preparing, aligning, and following through on decisions. You must be a master of context-switching, a flawless executor, and a proactive problem solver who thrives in fast-paced, high-stakes environments. This role will report to the Head of Innovation for Legal. Key Responsibilities Enablement and Follow-Through: Own the President's preparation and follow-up for all major meetings, including board, customer, investor, press, and internal leadership engagements. Ensure timely execution of action items, particularly with critical partners and customers. Driver of Strategic Agenda: Amplify and drive the President and segment's strategic agenda, providing consistent focus and firepower to progress those priorities to action and results. Trusted Strategic Partner: Serve as a sounding board and right hand to the President, helping to shape and drive top priorities, anticipate needs, and unlock decision-making. Provide perspective, insight, and challenge when needed. Meeting & Travel Participation & Preparation: Accompany the President on major business trips and high-priority meetings, capturing insights, driving alignment, and ensuring next steps are tracked and completed. Approximately 25%-50% travel expected, depending on where you are located. Operational Excellence: Manage strategic projects, drive accountability, and install strong follow-up mechanisms to close loops and deliver results. Ensure things do not fall through the cracks. Execution on Behalf of the President: Represent the President in internal and external settings where appropriate, ensuring continuity of message, tone, and intent. Carry forward directives and initiatives with discretion and authority. Organizational Intelligence & Connectivity: Act as the President's eyes and ears across the organization. Build trusted relationships at all levels, surface risks and opportunities early, and create feedback loops that support healthy culture and effective execution. Communications & Content: Partner with internal communications, investor relations, and PR teams to shape the President's messaging and materials. Own the agenda for leadership and segment meetings, and project manage pulling all its pieces together. Draft or refine presentations, briefings, and scripts as needed. What We Offer Unique, super-charged professional development opportunity. Direct impact on the effectiveness of senior leadership, and the company's long-term success. A front-row seat to the inner workings of a global public company during a pivotal stage of transformation and growth. Unique access to executive decision-making, customer relationships, and strategic initiatives. Fast-track to operational leadership following successful performance in this role. Competitive compensation and benefits package. About You 5-10+ years of experience in a combination of commercial, business operations, management consulting, or strategic roles in a fast-moving, competitive environment. Demonstrated success in a commercial leadership, Chief of Staff, or equivalent high-impact strategic operator role supporting a senior executive. Relentless focus on operational excellence and follow-through. You are detail-oriented, systems-minded, and allergic to dropped balls. Impeccable judgment and discretion, with a track record of managing sensitive and confidential matters professionally and effectively. World-class communication skills-written, verbal, and interpersonal-with a proven ability to influence and align executive stakeholders. Polished, poised, and approachable. You take pride in representing the President in diverse contexts internal and external. You are responsive to and resourceful about helping meet their needs. Analytical rigor and structured problem-solving capability. You bring clarity, logic, and insight to ambiguous or complex issues. Comfort with projects that have ambiguous execution steps. Internally driven: No one needs to push you; it's just who you are. Zero ego: your mindset is that no job is too big or too small. Adept at balancing urgency with patience, and able to flex between strategy and execution. Willingness and ability to travel with the President and adjust to dynamic priorities in real time. If you live in the NYC area, you will be expected to report to our Time Square location 3x/week and travel up to 25%. If you are located anywhere else in the United States, we will move you forward as a fully remote candidate and you will need to be able to travel 50% of the time, spending 1 week each month in our NYC office as well as travel for other business needs. #LI-DM1 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, 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. For any eligible US locations, unless otherwise noted, the base compensation range for this role is $154,000 - $286,000. This role may also be eligible for an Annual Bonus based on a combination of enterprise and individual performance. 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 job posting will close . 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. 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