About the Role
Thomson Reuters Labs is seeking a hands-on engineering manager to guide the delivery of cutting-edge AI solutions from concept to production. You will be both a technical leader and a people manager, shaping technical direction, building partnerships, and owning recruiting, career growth, and mentorship for Labs engineers. You will provide technical guidance on complex, high-impact projects and champion industry best practices for software delivery.
Responsibilities
- Foster a culture of innovation, growth, and continuous improvement
- Own the delivery of business-critical features for high-value, customer-facing applications
- Promote efficient collaboration between scientists and engineers on a project basis
- Operate with urgency and manage change at a rapid pace
- Mentor and develop team members, helping build a pipeline of future leaders and prepare the team for organizational scaling
- Drive the technical roadmap of the team, in partnership with product, science, and the technical lead, prioritizing initiatives that enhance product value while managing technical debt effectively
- Contribute to the long-term technology strategy aligned with organizational goals, preparing the team for scalable growth
- Help champion a bold vision for your customers and products
- Help align cross-functional stakeholders to strategy, vision, and roadmap
- Work through influence toward results across cross-functional teams
- Promote the adoption of advanced engineering practices within your team to foster innovation and efficiency, and contribute to broader adoption across research and product development teams
- Demonstrate strong people leadership, helping build a pipeline of future leaders
- Ensure the team delivers on expectations, communicating clear goals that support impactful work against team OKRs
- Mentor, coach, and develop team members, helping prepare the team for organizational scaling
- Set goals around talent development, diversity and inclusion, and demonstrate progress
- Lead a cross-functional project team spanning research and engineering
- Maintain a balanced strategic and tactical focus
- Operate as an excellent cross-functional influencer, bridging the gap between applied science and production engineering
Requirements
- A bachelor's degree in information technology, computer science, or the equivalent
- Minimum of 7 years' software development experience
- Demonstrated ability to successfully manage software development teams in an agile environment
- 1+ years in a people leadership and product development leadership role
- Experience spearheading technical development in a cross-functional setting, with responsibility for ML applications
- Close partnership with Applied Scientists, R&D groups, or similar
- A portfolio showcasing significant contributions to technology innovation
- Excellent project management, organization, and communication skills
- Experience contributing to and overseeing large-scale rollouts and infrastructure initiatives
- Experience performing software development with any of the following frontend technologies including React / Typescript / Tailwind
Skills
- Robust Python development
- MLOps
- Containerization
- Cloud infrastructure (AWS and Azure)
- Strategic planning
- Organizational development
- Team scaling
- Advanced search and recommendation technology
- Orchestration of ML pipelines for real-time inference
- Microservices architecture
- Model monitoring and governance
Location
- Hybrid
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 7+ years software development
- 1+ years people leadership
- 1+ years product development leadership
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree in information technology, computer science, or equivalent
- Master's or PhD in a relevant specialization preferred
Benefits
- Flexible vacation
- Two company-wide Mental Health Days off
- Access to the Headspace app
- Retirement savings
- Tuition reimbursement
- Employee incentive programs
- Resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing
- Work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year
- Two paid volunteer days off annually
About the Company
- 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.
- Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.
Equal Opportunity
- As a global business, we rely on the unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences of all employees to deliver on our business 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 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.
