Job Description

Director (AI) Materia

We are looking for a Director (AI) to join our team. This individual will manage and provide technical support to the technical engineering team across multiple initiatives and develop new approaches to solve somewhat ambiguous problems identified across the software development lifecycle. The role may also manage budget for projects, programs, or products within the practice.

About the Role

In this opportunity as a Director (AI), you will:

• Develop and execute a long-term technology strategy aligned with the organizations goals, preparing the team for scalable growth.
• Lead the adoption of advanced engineering practices and processes to foster innovation and efficiency across product development teams.
• Mentor and develop team members with a focus on building a pipeline of future leaders and preparing the team for organizational scaling.
• Facilitate strategic partnerships with crossfunctional leaders to ensure technology solutions meet broader business objectives.
• Drive the technical roadmap, prioritizing initiatives that enhance product value and customer satisfaction while also managing technical debt effectively.
• Propose accurate estimations for project timelines and resource requirements.
• Hire and manage a team of skilled software developers.
• Collaborate with crossfunctional teams to ensure smooth project execution.
• Effectively delegate tasks and responsibilities within the engineering team.

Other Responsibilities

Leadership

• Influence and articulate a vision for customers and product(s).
• Socialize and align a wide variety of crossfunctional stakeholders to strategy, vision, and roadmap.
• Lead through influence to drive results across multiple, crossfunctional teams.

People Management

• Demonstrate people leadership skills, typically for tactical or more junior level teams.
• Ensure team delivers on expectations, communicating clear goals that support the delivery of impactful work against team OKRs.
• Set goals around talent development, diversity and inclusion, and demonstrate progress.

Sphere of Influence

• Lead multiple crossfunctional project teams.
• Balance strategic and tactical focus.
• Exhibit excellent crossfunctional influence.

Delivery

• Evaluate new technologies and participate in decisionmaking, accounting for several factors.
• Apply knowledge of software architecture to manage software development tasks associated with developing, debugging or designing software applications, operating systems and databases according to provided design specifications.
• Manage building enhancements within an existing software architecture and occasionally suggest improvements to the architecture.

Business Acumen

• Display understanding of the projects value proposition for the customer.
• Apply critical, nonbiased and databased thinking to help make core directional decisions that move toward the forecasted future.
• Rank the importance of initiatives to achieve team and business objectives, recognizing not all work is equally important and urgent, and that some work will fall to a backlog for future prioritization.

About You

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 8+ years of experience in software development.
• 3+ years in people leadership and product development leadership roles.
• Ability to elaborate on/demonstrate experience bringing transformations within process improvement and team development.
• Ability to identify and implement new technologies to improve the product.
• Experience performing software development with Python.
• Experience performing software development with AWS cloud development stack.
• Experience with an Agile development process is required.
• Experience performing software development with one of the following frontend technologies is preferred but not required: React, Typescript, or Tailwind.
• Exceptional leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills to foster an environment of collaboration and innovation.
• Demonstrated experience in strategic planning, organizational development, and team scaling.

Whats in it For You

• Hybrid Work Model: Weve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (23 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our officebased roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.
• Flexibility & WorkLife 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 worklife 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 realworld solutions. Our Grow My Way programming and skillsfirst approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AIenabled future.
• Industry Competitive Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two companywide 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, awardwinning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, worklife 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 probono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.
• Making a RealWorld 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 401(k) plan with company match. In addition, Thomson Reuters offers market leading worklife 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 exceed the requirements of paid time off in accordance with any applicable state or municipal laws. Finally, Thomson Reuters offers 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 $177,380 $329,420. 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 individuals 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.

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.

We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness, and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.

To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender ide]]> <

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