Are you looking for an opportunity to build a market-changing product? The Principal Product Manager, AI Tax Prep role is responsible for driving the co-creation and delivery of an end-to-end product experience that revolutionizes the income tax preparation process for U.S. tax & accounting professionals.
 
Your mission will be to harness the power of AI and key technologies to create an automated and connected tax preparation experience across our broad portfolio of award-winning UltraTax and U.S. tax products and capabilities. This mission is in service of our broader vision to create the most connected, automated, insight-driven, open ecosystem that makes tax, accounting, and audit professionals more successful and delights their clients. Customers will believe we are successful when they can free up time during the income tax preparation process to focus on providing valuable insights and services to their clients.
 
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 content and technology with trusted data, workflow automation, and AI. TR has a bold vision to be the leader in AI-powered, content-driven technology, and the Principal Product Manager, AI Tax Prep will work closely with work teams 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 in 2024. 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 and championing our tax prep automation 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-powered tax prep experience. 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 VP, of Product Management for U.S. Tax and sit 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 for the product maintaining the product roadmap and partnering closely with the dev team and UX 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.

• You will be a thought leader inside and outside the organization, often writing / blogging and speaking at events.

 
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 

• Experience in fintech, with previous experience in creating tax & accounting 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

• Proven high-energy, highly collaborative leadership approach

Why Thomson Reuters?
As an employee at Thomson Reuters, you will play a role in shaping and leading the global knowledge economy. Our technology drives global markets and helps professionals around the world make decisions that matter.  Whether solving for today’s challenges or tomorrow’s aspirations, you will work with the industry’s brightest thinkers on diverse projects, creating next-generation solutions that deliver powerful results.   As the world’s leading provider of intelligent information, we want your unique perspective to create the solutions that advance our business—and your career. 

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

Wellbeing: 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.

Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.

Learning & Development: LinkedIn Learning access; internal Talent Marketplace with opportunities to work on projects cross-company; Ten Thousand Coffees Thomson Reuters café networking.

Social Impact: Ten employee-driven Business Resource Groups; two paid volunteer days annually; Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives for local and global impact.

Purpose-Driven Work: We have a superpower that we’ve never talked about with as much pride as we should – we are one of the only companies on the planet 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.

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What's in it For You?
You will join our inclusive culture of world-class talent, where we are committed to your personal and professional growth through:

• 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

• Wellbeing: 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.

• Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.

• Learning & Development: LinkedIn Learning access; internal Talent Marketplace with opportunities to work on projects cross-company; Ten Thousand Coffees Thomson Reuters café networking.

• Social Impact: Ten employee-driven Business Resource Groups; two paid volunteer days annually; Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives for local and global impact.

• Purpose Driven Work: We have a superpower that we’ve never talked about with as much pride as we should – we are one of the only companies on the planet 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.

Do you want to be part of a team helping re-invent the way knowledge professionals work? How about a team that works every day to create a more transparent, just and inclusive future? At Thomson Reuters, we’ve been doing just that for almost 160 years. Our industry-leading products and services include highly specialized information-enabled software and tools for legal, tax, accounting and compliance professionals combined with the world’s most global news services – Reuters. We help these professionals do their jobs better, creating more time for them to focus on the things that matter most: advising, advocating, negotiating, governing and informing.

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 that celebrate diversity and inclusion. 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. 

Accessibility 

As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. 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 identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.

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