Technical Product Manager (ML/NLP)

$82,000 - $178,000/Yr

Thomson Reuters - Plano, TX

Full-time - Mid Level

Onsite - Plano, TX

10,001+ employees

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About the position

In response to Thomson Reuters expanding CoCounsel initiative, Thomson Reuters Labs is seeking a Technical Product Manager to join its Legal Technology team. This individual will drive the vision and execution for one of the CoCounsel Machine Learning teams and will product manage for a cross-functional team of technical professionals, including applied scientists and research engineers. Thomson Reuters Labs is the dedicated applied research division of Thomson Reuters, focused on the research, development, and application of AI and emerging trends in technologies. Working collaboratively with our stakeholders, we experiment, prototype, test, and deliver solutions in the pursuit of creating smarter and more valuable tools for our customers. We aim to drive innovation across the fields of legal, tax, and regulation, harnessing the power of proprietary big data and emerging technologies to solve complex real-world challenges. We are looking for individuals to join our team who are curious about solving big problems, passionate about continuous innovation, and experienced with the end-to-end model development lifecycle. In this opportunity as Technical Product Manager, you will define, socialize, drive and report on product Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) and their corresponding Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). You will 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 towards OKRs. You will partner with leadership to plan for adequate team resourcing, effective team collaboration, and to properly estimate and communicate delivery timelines. Ensuring your team is aligned with partnering product, engineering, content, design, and subject matter expert teams is crucial. You will identify and implement communication patterns that facilitate collaboration while protecting team focus. Additionally, you will provide technical guidance to partner product teams during all phases of development including but not limited to solution brainstorming, prioritization, technical feasibility scoping, and UX research/design. Balancing factors such as cost, time to market, and resourcing to optimize iterative value delivery for customers is also a key responsibility.

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 towards OKRs.
• 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 product, engineering, content, design, and subject matter expert teams.
• Identify and implement communication patterns that facilitate collaboration while protecting team focus.
• Provide technical guidance to partner product 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 customers.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, machine learning or related field.
• At least 3 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.
• Market competitive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance programs, as well as a competitive 401k plan with company match.
• Competitive vacation, sick and safe paid time off, paid holidays (including two company mental health days off), parental leave, sabbatical leave.
• 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.