# Manager, General Counsel **Company**: Thomson Reuters **Location**: Mexico City **Work arrangement**: hybrid **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Category**: Legal **Industry**: Technology **Apply**: https://thomsonreuters.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External_Career_Site/job/Mexico-Mexico-City/Manager--General-Counsel_JREQ204849?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/job/manager-general-counsel-ab59cb95-c92/ ## 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. **Key Responsibilities** - 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** - 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. **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. - 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. - 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. - Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. For more fresh new jobs, check out [yubhub.co](https://yubhub.co/). ## Skills ### Required - law degree - legal experience - commercial agreements - risk management - leadership - stakeholder management - communication skills - Spanish - English ### Nice to have - multinational experience - in-house experience - data privacy - artificial intelligence - digital products - intellectual property - emerging technology - Portuguese --- Source: [Apply at thomsonreuters.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com](https://thomsonreuters.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External_Career_Site/job/Mexico-Mexico-City/Manager--General-Counsel_JREQ204849?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)