Vice President, Engineering - Application Experience

Are you passionate about crafting the product surfaces that transform how legal professionals interact with AI? Do you excel at leading engineering teams that ship polished, high-quality user experiences at scale — across web, desktop, mobile, and deep third-party integrations? If so, this role puts you at the center of CoCounsel’s user-facing evolution. As VP of Engineering, Application Experience, you will own the end-to-end engineering for how users experience CoCounsel Next — from the core web application and admin tooling, to bespoke AI-powered workflows, to integrations inside Microsoft Word, Outlook, Teams, Copilot, and beyond. You will lead multiple engineering teams delivering web, custom, and integrated experiences, reporting directly to the Head of Engineering for CoCounsel Legal. About the Role In this opportunity as VP, Engineering – Application Experience, you will: Define and execute the Application Experience engineering strategy, setting the technical vision for CoCounsel’s user interfaces, integration surfaces, and embedded AI experiences — aligned with the product roadmap and Thomson Reuters’ platform goals. Lead and grow engineering managers and their teams, building a high-performance, inclusive culture across a globally distributed organization. Drive talent development, performance differentiation, and effective team structure as the product scales. Own the core CoCounsel web application, including the main agent experience, admin and configuration surfaces, multilingual and I18n support, usage and billing tooling, and bespoke AI workflows such as tabular analysis and litigation drafting. Drive the custom and integrated experiences roadmap, delivering CoCounsel capabilities inside Microsoft Word (drafting plugin), Outlook, Teams, Copilot, Gemini, Claude.ai, and other surfaces via MCP, A2A, and plugin architectures. Shape the mobile and desktop application strategy, partnering with product and design to define CoCounsel’s presence on mobile and desktop platforms. Partner across the engineering pillar, working closely with the VP of Agent Core, AI Platform, Product Management, Design, and Security to deliver seamless, enterprise-grade experiences that leverage the full power of the agent backend. Establish engineering quality and delivery excellence, including frontend architecture standards, accessibility, performance, and continuous delivery practices across all application surfaces. About You You’re a fit for the role of VP, Engineering – Application Experience if you have the following required qualifications: 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years in senior engineering leadership managing managers and cross-functional delivery teams. Strong track record delivering high-quality, production-grade web applications — ideally in SaaS or enterprise software — at significant scale. Expertise in modern frontend and full-stack engineering, including integration patterns such as plugins, embeds, and third-party platform APIs (e.g., Microsoft 365 ecosystem). Experience shipping AI-powered user experiences — chat interfaces, AI workflow tools, or productivity integrations — and understanding the unique design and engineering challenges they present. Proven success driving product engineering strategy and cross-functional execution at the VP or Director level. Demonstrated ability to partner with Product and Design to translate user needs into high-quality engineering delivery. Additional preferred qualifications include: Experience building integrations within the Microsoft 365 ecosystem (Word add-ins, Teams apps, Copilot extensions). Familiarity with MCP (Model Context Protocol) or A2A integration patterns. Background in legal tech, productivity software, or professional-services SaaS products. Experience defining mobile or desktop application strategy from early stages. Location You will work in a hybrid environment (minimum three days per week in office) and should ideally be based in one of our US hub locations (Minneapolis/Eagan MN, Dallas or New York City), Zug, Switzerland or Toronto, Canada. #LI-PFF New Position: This position is open due to an existing vacancy to support our evolving business needs. 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. 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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. Eligible office location(s) for this role include one or more of the following: New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and/or Irvine, CA; McLean, VA; Washington, DC. The base compensation range for the role in any of those locations is $228,000 USD - $424,000 USD. For any eligible US locations, unless otherwise noted, the base compensation range for this role is $198,200 USD - $368,000 USD. 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 role may also be eligible for an Annual Bonus based on a combination of enterprise and individual performance. 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