Principal Product Manager, AI Tax and Trade

Thomas Reuters
Principal Product Manager, AI Tax and Trade

Ready to build the future of commerce and compliance, with cutting edge technology? The Principal Product Manager, AI Tax and Traderole is responsible for driving the co-creation and delivery of an end-to-end product experience that revolutionizes ONESOURCE and our Tax and Trade portfolio supporting thousands of organizations around the globe.

Your mission will be to harness the power of AI and key technologies to create an embedded, connected and intelligent compliance experience, across our broad portfolio of Tax and Trade ONESOURCE products. This mission is in service of our broader vision to meet our customers at the intersection of commerce and compliance.

Role Overview
The Principal Product Manager will have extensive, successful experience owning and driving product requirements, synthesizing technologies and capabilities into scalable products, prioritizing between features, architectural improvements, and operational excellence. This person will be responsible for consolidating and delivering a roadmap that focuses on innovation, optimization, and/or modernization on our most critically important projects and investments. The Principal PM is our most senior individual contributor role and is expected to be an expert in every facet of the Product lifecycle, and of all the core tenants of Product Management. Autonomy, judgment, influence, and leadership skills are essential. The successful Principal will be a self-starter comfortable with ambiguity, with strong attention to detail, and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment. They will drive the long-term vision through the development of vision documents, the definition of business requirements, and launch and post-launch measurement, often also developing and indirectly leading the functional work of a small team of product managers. They will also serve as a key player with cross-functional teams across the company, working to align interests and implement scalable solutions. Externally, they are seen as a thought leader in their space – understanding their market and customers and anticipating future trends and direction.

About the Team
Thomson Reuters leads at the intersection of commerce and compliance with trusted content, technology, data, workflow automation, and AI. TR has a bold vision to be the leader in AI-powered, content-driven technology organization, and the Principal Product Manager, AI Tax and Trade will work closely with some of our best and brightest talent from Product, Compliance, Engineering, TR Labs, and Design who are dedicated to begin delivering on this mission. Teams are working closely with customers to create a product experience that is unmatched in the market today. To bring that experience to life, we are working closely with TR Labs and partner teams to leverage several TR enterprise-shared components to streamline and enhance our AI-powered experiences.

In this role, you will partner with leaders and stakeholders from these teams in refining our product strategy, while also playing a very hands-on role in leading cross-functional distributed product teams through product discovery and delivery. This will involve ensuring we prioritize the right work, at the right time, program-wide. You will also play an important role in defining our future state product experiences and be responsible for defining ONESOURCE AI strategy. As a Principal Product Manager, you will find that no two days or hours are alike – from product strategy to usage analytics, business cases to customer interactions, roadmap planning, scrum of scrums sprint planning, and more, you will be accountable for making sure we are maximizing customer and business value with our AI-poweredexperiences. You will also partner closely with our Product Marketing, Sales, Commercial, and other teams to land our product well in the market. In this role, you will report directly to the Head of Product Management for Tax and Trade sitting on the product line leadership team.

About the Role
As a Principal Product Manager you will:

• Develop strong product intuition by interpreting and assessing highly complex and ambiguous customer problems, business needs, and opportunities and delivering potential solutions.
• Build world-class capabilities and products by creating a vision, maintaining the product roadmap and partnering closely with the labs, development, UX, and other product leaders to execute the roadmap and deliver efficiently. This includes serving as the customer voice for the engineering teams, prioritizing the product backlog based on customer and business value, and using metrics to monitor and measure progress.
• Demonstrate leadership by taking ownership of products, product lines or small product families, their performance and reliability, and delighting our clients with a positive experience. You will show that you can learn from your experiences, recover from setbacks, and effectively evangelize the product vision to colleagues. You will socialize and align a wide variety of cross-functional stakeholders to strategy, vision, and roadmap.
• Drive clarity of vision and establish clear plans for both functional and agentic AI application with a holistic view of the experiences within a broad ecosystem of technologies and partners.
• You will be a thought leader inside and outside the organization, often writing / blogging and speaking at events.

About You:

To be successful in achieving these goals, you will be:

• Curious & Innovative, starting with an obsession for our customers’ problems and needs and then working closely with customers, partners, and other Thomson Reuters colleagues to solve them in unique ways.
• Agile with a strong sense of urgency and a desire to work in a fast-paced dynamic environment to deliver solutions against strict timelines, unafraid of failure. Ensure that the customer voice and Product Vision is embedded in agile teams and that work is prioritized and trade-offs are made based on customer and business value.
• An effective communicator who projects confidence and communicates concisely and clearly to management, peers, customers, and partners.

Preferred Qualifications

• Expert-level Product Management Professional
• Bachelor’s degree in business or computer science preferred or equivalent experience.
• Typically, 6+ years of Product Management experience
• Previous experience in creating tax & accounting, global trade, or similar highly regulated and complex SaaS products strongly preferred
• Experience delivering projects utilizing AI, ML, Gen AI, RPA, and other tech is strongly preferred
• Experience working in cross-functional, matrixed environments to drive product delivery or key project outcomes
• Experience and understanding of enterprise business systems ERPs and surrounding ecosystems
• Proven high-energy, highly collaborative leadership approach

What’s in it For You?

• Hybrid Work Model: We’ve 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 tomorrow’s 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.

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 401k plan with company match. In addition, Thomson Reuters offers market leading work life benefits with competitive vacation, sick and safe paid time off . click apply for full job details