Head of Product, Reuters

An excellent opportunity exists for a seasoned Product leader to champion product for Reuters global media customers. As Reuters continues to evolve our business, we strive to deepen our customer understanding, focus and elevate our product portfolio and continuously improve the customer experience. The successful candidate will drive products and solutions that align with the most important needs of our clients and are successful by both customer and business measures. 

About the Role

As Head of Product, Reuters and a key senior leader, you will be responsible for overseeing a comprehensive, constantly evolving product portfolio. You will instil in your team a strong sense of purpose, a vision for growth, a customer-centric mindset and the ability to develop and ship leading-edge products. You will understand customer problems and lead a team to identify creative solutions to those problems. You will anticipate new technology trends in our market and demonstrate outstanding commercial, leadership and organizational transformation experience, as well as a track record for building and motivating global teams to deliver innovative product initiatives.  Given the rapidly changing media landscape, we are looking for a dynamic change agent who can drive transformation while energizing and influencing staff at all levels across the function and be a key member of the Reuters Leadership Team.

As a Head of Product, you will report to the President, Reuters and lead a team of experienced Product Managers and Content specialists and will be a key owner and partner of our growth plan, ensuring that our products retain their market-leading position.

Responsibilities:

• Creating a shared vision, roadmap and strategy for Reuters products and building consensus with cross-functional teams on priorities to execute against
• Owning the end-to-end lifecycle for Reuters products including product discovery, ideation, design, development, and market launch
• Driving product development with a cross-functional group of engineers, subject matter experts, designers, data analysts and user researchers and their leadership group
• Defining and achieving ambitious goals and targets for product teams using metrics that capture both product and business outcomes
• Being a visible leader in the industry to champion our products and tell our story
• Managing, growing and inspiring a team of product managers and product experts

Location:

The role can be based in either London, Toronto, Zug, New York or Bangalore.

About You

You will have demonstrated success in leading world-class product teams. You will possess a broad business view and the ability to think through profitability while solving for market dynamics, customer needs and the overall business strategy. You will be a proven change-agent and will demonstrate a track record of success around leveraging leading-edge technology solutions, overhauling product capabilities and partnering effectively with stakeholders to drive business outcomes.

Experience & Qualifications:

• Proven successful leadership of product management in a software or information business
• Significant experience in leading global product teams including leading and building a world-class Product function
• Experience leading a diverse, complex product suite while taking a customer-centric approach
• Deep familiarity around advanced technologies
• Ability to influence c-level executives with experience pitching and affecting major investments and significant shifts in strategy
• Strong analytical, problem solving, and decision-making skills
• Required ability to travel up to 20% of the time, including globally

Key competencies include the following:

Setting Strategy & Demonstrating Strong Product Intuition

• Build a modern product organization focused on agile methodology, defined OKR’s and a structured product road map
• Ability to define the strategy for a portfolio of products that bring clarity to an ambiguous problem space and get alignment with cross-functional leadership stakeholders to execute and dedicate resources to the plan
• Effectively articulates an inspiring vision for the future of Reuters Productivity, creating a shared purpose, excitement and energy for execution, and clarity for senior leadership
• Creates innovative and compelling product ideas that clearly address customer problems and needs, are clearly aligned to the mission of the company, and reflect product principles that govern prioritization decisions
• Demonstrates deep customer empathy and is experienced in collaborating with designers and researchers and using design methods to explore and validate customer problems
• Data-driven; seeks and analyzes data from a variety of sources to support decisions and to align others with the organization's overall strategy

Executing for Results

• Displays a strong execution orientation. Collaborates across departments and with external partners to ship products on time and within expectations
• Sets clear and challenging goals while committing the organization to improved performance; tenacious and accountable in driving results
• Comfortable with ambiguity and uncertainty; the ability to adapt nimbly and lead others through complex situations
• Illustrates decisiveness and wisdom in the face of limited data while influencing others in a way that results in acceptance or agreement and drives the business forward
• Identifies and solves potential problems in a creative and timely manner

Leadership & Influencing

• Demonstrates success in attracting and recruiting top talent, motivating the team, celebrating diversity, and managing and rewarding performance
• Naturally connects and builds strong relationships with others, demonstrating strong emotional intelligence and an ability to communicate clearly and persuasively
• Displays self-awareness and eager to grow through feedback
• Comfortable leading a team through rapidly changing circumstances, priorities, and goals

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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, paid holidays (including two company mental health days off), parental leave, sabbatical leave. These benefits meet or exceeds the requirements of paid time off in accordance with any applicable state or municipal laws. Finally, Thomson Reuters offers the following additional benefits: 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 $273,000 - $409,000. 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 individual’s 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.

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