Customer Success Manager AI & Legal Solutions
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Job Summary
The Customer Success Manager is essential in driving customer engagement and maximizing product usage serving as the primary liaison for our customers. This role ensures that customers fully adopt and leverage our solutions to achieve their objectives deriving maximum value from their investments. Responsibilities include cultivating and maintaining long-lasting customer relationships developing and executing personalized success plans and facilitating seamless onboarding and training experiences. A critical focus is placed on closely monitoring adoption trends and usage patterns and implementing strategies to boost product engagement and satisfaction. Regular check-ins and quarterly reviews are conducted to align with customer goals while collaboration with sales identifies retention and expansion opportunities. This role also serves as a customer advocate gathering feedback to influence product development and partners with internal teams to align customer success with broader business objectives. Success is measured by metrics such as time to first value customer health scores and adoption rates of new features.
Job Description
Customer Success Manager AI & Legal Solutions (Middle East & Africa)
Ready to turn trusted professional-grade AI products into real measurable outcomes for legal customers across the Middle East and Africa
Thomson Reuters are hiring a Customer Success Manager to own outcomes for a portfolio of customers across the Middle East and Africa using AI solutions translating business goals into measurable success plans driving adoption from first value to scaled rollout and building executive-level relationships that make renewals and expansion a natural next step. Youll combine consultative customer leadership strong project management and data-driven execution to embed AI into real legal workflows across markets including the UAE Saudi Arabia Qatar Egypt South Africa and Kenya. This role will be based in Dubai United Arab Emirates.
Key Responsibilities
In this opportunity as Customer Success Manager AI & Legal Solutions (Middle East & Africa) you will:
Build and maintain multi-threaded relationships across legal innovation KM IT and leadership; develop champions and align executive stakeholders on measurable outcomes.
Lead onboarding and implementation end-to-end (entitlements training rollout planning) then drive ongoing adoption by embedding CoCounsel into priority legal workflows and practice group routines.
Proactively identify validate and scale new use cases; quantify and communicate ROI through agreed success metrics and QBR-style business reviews.
Manage a portfolio spanning international and regional law firms and corporate legal departments across the Middle East and Africa tailoring adoption approaches to local practice areas content sets and regulatory expectations.
Work effectively across multiple countries cultures and time zones adapting engagement to markets at different stages of legal technology maturity.
Coordinate with third-party implementation partners and resellers operating in the region to protect delivery quality timelines and the customer experience.
Capture and communicate voice of the customer to relevant TR functions including leadership strategy sales proposition presales customer success marketing and product teams.
Support targeted deals by supporting Proofs of Concept and facilitated trials.
Coordinate cross-functional resolution and maintain proactive communication timelines and risk mitigation plans.
Prepare and deliver project presentations and project status reports to prospects and clients.
What youll own (Outcomes)
Value realisation: define success outcomes with each customer build success plans and deliver measurable impact (time saved workflow adoption matter coverage user activation).
Adoption at scale: drive end-user enablement and day-to-day usage through role-based training champions and repeatable adoption plays.
Customer health & renewal readiness: monitor product usage and sentiment identify risks early and execute recovery plans to protect retention.
Expansion signal creation: uncover new use cases broaden stakeholder alignment and partner with Sales to progress expansions.
Voice-of-customer: turn customer insights into actionable feedback for Product Proposition and GTM teams.
Youre a proactive metrics-driven Customer Success Manager who can operate credibly with senior legal stakeholders and confidently drive change inside complex organisations. You blend consultative relationship management with structured execution turning onboarding into adoption and adoption into measurable outcomes retention and growth. Youre comfortable working across markets at different stages of maturity. Youre a fit for the role of Customer Success Manager AI & Legal Solutions (Middle East & Africa) if you have the following qualifications.
Required qualifications:
4 years in Customer Success / Account Management / Implementation in B2B SaaS (or comparable client-facing role) owning onboarding adoption and retention outcomes.
Experience supporting legal customers or working within a legal or regulated professional services environment (law firm in-house legal team legal operations knowledge management practice innovation or legal technology).
Demonstrated ownership of the customer lifecycle: onboarding success planning and retention management.
Cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder engagement including with channel and implementation partners.
Product/technical aptitude: ability to quickly learn AI platforms translate business goals into use cases and triage common issues before handoff.
Fluent written and spoken English.
Willingness to travel regularly across the Middle East and Africa.
Preferred qualifications:
Legal qualification (e.g. law degree) and/or 3 years practising in a law firm or in-house legal team.
Practice innovation knowledge management or legal operations experience.
Hands-on experience with legal software or AI-enabled legal solutions.
Experience operating across the Middle East and Africa or in comparable emerging and high-growth markets with a working understanding of local legal markets regulatory environments and buying cycles.
Arabic or French language skills.
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Whats in it For You
Hybrid Work Model: Weve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) 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 tomorrows 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.
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