Senior Technical Product Manager

Thomson Reuters - Denver, CO

Full-time - Senior

Denver, CO

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About the position

In this opportunity as a Senior Technical Project Manager, you will play a pivotal role in driving the vision and execution for AI transformation teams within the Editorial and Content space at Thomson Reuters. This position is crucial as TR Labs seeks to create bold transformations led by the potential of AI and GenAI. You will be responsible for defining, socializing, driving, and reporting on product Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) along with their corresponding Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). Your role will involve assembling a technical product vision, creating roadmaps, defining epics and features, and collecting and reviewing user feedback to refine user requirements. You will prioritize tasks, drive execution, and adjust delivery schedules as needed to ensure progress towards the defined goals. As a Senior Technical Project Manager, you will partner with leadership to plan for adequate team resourcing and effective collaboration. You will ensure that your team is aligned with partnering Editorial, Content Ops, engineering, design, and other subject matter expert teams. Identifying and implementing communication patterns that facilitate collaboration while protecting team focus will be essential. You will provide technical guidance to partner editorial and content teams during all phases of development, including solution brainstorming, prioritization, technical feasibility scoping, and UX research/design. Balancing factors such as cost, time to market, and resourcing will be key to optimizing iterative value delivery for TR.

Responsibilities

• Define, socialize, drive and report on product Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) and their corresponding Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
• Assemble technical product vision, roadmaps, define epics and features, collect and review user feedback, refine user requirements, prioritize, drive execution, and adjust delivery schedules as needed to drive progress.
• Partner with leadership to plan for adequate team resourcing, effective team collaboration, and to properly estimate and communicate delivery timelines.
• Ensure your team is aligned with partnering Editorial, Content Ops, engineering, design, and other subject matter expert teams.
• Identify and implement communication patterns that facilitate collaboration while protecting team focus.
• Provide technical guidance to partner editorial and content teams during all phases of development including but not limited to solution brainstorming, prioritization, technical feasibility scoping, and UX research/design.
• Balance factors such as cost, time to market and resourcing to optimize iterative value delivery for TR.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Machine Learning, or related field and/or having qualifications as a lawyer / attorney.
• At least 5 years of experience as a member of a technical product development team working on applied AI research, including contributing to and driving end-to-end delivery of technical AI research products.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, capable of presenting complex information clearly to diverse audiences and articulating a compelling strategic vision.
• Demonstrated ability to build relationships and influence within a matrix organization.
• Experience with agile project management and scrum methodologies.
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills, utilizing data and metrics to inform decisions.
• Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams (technology, design, marketing) to balance trade-offs in technologies and execution strategies.
• High attention to detail and proven ability to manage multiple, competing priorities simultaneously with minimal supervision.
• Experience balancing short-term tactical execution with strategic long-term vision.

Nice-to-haves

• At least 3 years of experience building ML, NLP or Computer Vision systems from ideation to production.
• At least 1 year of experience owning a Software as a Service, Machine Learning Platform, Human in the Loop or AI as a Service products.
• Experience coaching and developing a team of indirect reports.
• Data-driven decision making.
• Experience writing and publishing research papers at conferences and workshops.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefit plans; flexible and supportive benefits for work-life balance: flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days Off; work from another location for up to a total of 8 weeks in a year, 4 of those weeks can be out of the country and the remaining in the country.
• Headspace app subscription; retirement, savings, tuition reimbursement, and employee incentive programs; resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
• Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.
• LinkedIn Learning access; internal Talent Marketplace with opportunities to work on projects cross-company; Ten Thousand Coffees Thomson Reuters cafe networking.
• Ten employee-driven Business Resource Groups; two paid volunteer days annually; Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives for local and global impact.