Web Content Developer at Thompson Reuters

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 04:42:58 GMT

Location: Eagan, MN, United States
URL: http://www.thomsonreuters.com
Posted: 6/27/2008

Job Description:
Thomson Reuters is a global leader in providing essential information to the world's businesses and professionals in Law, Financial Services, Tax & Accounting, Media, Healthcare and Scientific Research. With our deep expertise and understanding of these professions, we are able to offer our customers a broad range of innovative products and services. The relevant, insightful information and intuitive supporting systems we provide enable our customers to be successful. Thomson Reuters has operations in 94 countries around the globe. More information about Thomson Reuters and its financial performance can be found on www.ThomsonReuters.com

Thomson FindLaw is the legal industry's most effective provider of client development services. FindLaw provides law firms with Web sites to generate lucrative new business through the web and uses technology to systematically build stronger, more profitable relationships with existing clients. Attorneys can also be prominently listed on our web portal, FindLaw.com, the world's most-visited legal information site (www.findlaw.com.)

The Web Content Developer /Product Developer works closely with the Product Development Manager to execute on the development of new products or enhancements around the content product line including Practice Pages, Practice Centers, Newsletters, and FAQs. This position is highly collaborative with Customer Operations, Engineering, and Product Marketing to develop creative ideas to improve and expand content options for attorney Web sites. The position is responsible for many aspects of the product development process.

MAJOR AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:

* Participate in or lead cross-functional product development teams to deliver new features and enhancements to the content product line. Product development teams can include engineering, finance, marketing, fulfillment, sales, and account management. Maintains the product roadmap with release milestones as planned and agreed to by cross-functional teams while following standard project management protocol.
* Support and maintain existing FindLaw content products by investigating problems, working with engineers, fulfillment, account management and other groups to resolve problems.
* Evaluating and completing technology assessments for existing and new content product lines, making recommendations based on analysis. Write functional and/or design specifications describing, from a user's perspective, new products and features for use by engineers and other members of product development teams.
* Collects, analyzes and reports market intelligence and feedback through interaction with customers, sales and account management, including Field Advisory Boards.
* Effectively communicate the customer and business benefits of new content products and features to management. Assist in preparation of presentations and regularly provide information as needed.
* Completing and maintaining competitive analysis reports for specific products. Monitor performance of new content products and enhancements through usage and revenue tracking.
* Assist Product Development Manager with on-going win/loss evaluations that pin-point key differentiations and opportunities for improvement at the point of sale.

Qualifications

Qualifications:

* Bachelors degree required
* Strong knowledge of Internet technologies.
* Ability to lead and work well in cross-functional teams, including software engineers, marketing, account management, sales operations, and finance
* Ability to effectively handle and prioritize multiple and complex projects simultaneously in a quickly changing environment
* Strong oral and written communication skills
* Technical aptitude - ability to understand and communicate technical issues
* Proven analytical skills, attention to detail, and accuracy.
* Creativity
* Strong project management skills and ability to report out on project status.

Preferred Qualifications:

* Experience working with a content management database
* Experience working in the legal industry

Thomson Reuters employees take pride in providing our customers around the world with information that is timely, accurate, unbiased and trusted. We have a profound respect for the professions and customers we serve and define our success in terms of their success. Our work environment is dynamic, innovative and entrepreneurial. We have a result-oriented culture that demands excellence, agility, and the desire to move quickly and precisely to seize opportunities. Our environment is both challenging and supportive - we give employees the opportunity to develop their skills and do their best work.

Thomson Reuters values diversity of culture and thought and seeks talented, qualified employees in all its operations around the world regardless of race, gender, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age or any other protected classification under country or local law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.

Job ID: MAR00000891

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