Director, Product Portfolio Management

About the role

The Portfolio Management team makes sure our product investments and resources go to the most strategic, highest-priority opportunities. Working across the product organization, the team partners with product leaders and informs enterprise investment decisions. As Director, Product Portfolio Management, you'll bring an objective, portfolio-wide perspective to how we plan, fund, and rationalize our products. You'll partner across Product Management, Product Operations, Product Engineering, Finance, and Strategy to run the core processes that connect strategy to investment decisions and financial outcomes, moving comfortably between the detail of a single business case and the big picture of the entire portfolio. AI is central to how this team works: the large majority of our analysis and decision-making is AI-assisted, and we expect this role to push that further.

Responsibilities

• Lead the annual capital planning cycle — own the end-to-end process for prioritizing product investment, from creation and evolution of guidance and template materials to running and owning the kick-off sessions through ongoing stakeholder reviews and funding decisions and managing in-year funding requests as they arise.
• Drive product profitability and rationalization — working closely with the Corporate Finance team, analyze product performance and profitability supporting Portfolio Management recommendations on coverage levels, product sunsets, and the divestiture pipeline across the portfolio.
• Own the master product list and portfolio taxonomy — maintain a consistent, standardized view of the portfolio, keeping it accurate and connected to reporting and the systems that depend on it and ensuring all stakeholders are kept informed of changes as they happen.
• Track business cases and investment decisions — keep visibility over business cases throughout the investment and delivery lifecycle, ensuring decisions are well-informed, documented, and followed through.
• Put AI at the center of the work — use AI tools to accelerate analysis, synthesis, and decision support across capital planning, profitability, business case tracking and portfolio reporting and continually raise the bar for how the team applies AI.
• Partner closely with Finance — work hand in hand with Finance on capital allocation, profitability, and the numbers behind portfolio decisions, keeping investment choices grounded in facts.
• Support resource and people planning — provide insights to help direct resources to the highest-priority products, so agreed strategies and plans get executed across the portfolio.
• Distill the portfolio story for leadership and investors — evaluate product roadmaps and turn complex product and financial information into clear insight that informs decisions and supports investor relations.
• Align stakeholders across the organization — bring alignment across Product, Engineering, Operations, Finance, and Strategy, influencing at all levels to make portfolio trade-offs and see them through.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in portfolio management, product management, product strategy, or product operations, ideally within a product, technology, or software organization.
• A strong track record of managing processes and building relationships with cross-functional partners.
• Outstanding organizational and communication skills, including the synthesis and simplification of complex ideas.
• A bachelor's degree or equivalent; MBA preferred, particularly one that brings strong financial and commercial grounding.

Skills

• Understanding how product, engineering, and design work together, enough to put portfolio and investment decisions in the right context.
• A solid grasp of the Thomson Reuters product portfolio, product strategy and the markets we serve: legal, tax, corporates, and risk & fraud, and the dynamics that shape them.
• Financial acumen, comfortable analyzing profitability and business cases, including ROI, IRR, and NPV, to inform investment trade-offs.
• Fluency with and enthusiasm for AI tools — actively use AI to accelerate analysis, synthesis, and decision-making.
• Outstanding communication and a collaboration mindset — synthesize and simplify complex ideas and engage with all stakeholders to support clear and timely communication to senior leadership.
• A strong execution orientation — lead cross-functional teams and external partners to timely decisions and follow through.
• Critical thinking and sound judgment — make smart trade-offs and are comfortable challenging assumptions and asking the provocative questions.
• Comfort with ambiguity — adapt nimbly and help others navigate complex situations.
• Data-driven — seek out and analyze data, with strong attention to detail and comfort using analytics and BI tools.

Qualifications

• Product management experience; familiarity with the software development lifecycle and how product teams operate is a plus.
• Hands-on financial modeling (building or stress-testing investment and profitability models) is a plus.

Benefits

• Hybrid Work Model: flexible hybrid working environment for office-based roles with a seamless digitally and physically connected experience.
• Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way supportive workplace policies including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year.
• Career Development and Growth: Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach for continuous learning and skill development in an AI-enabled future.
• Industry Competitive Benefits: comprehensive benefit plans including 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. Values: Obsess over our Customers, Compete to Win, Challenge (Y)our Thinking, Act Fast / Learn Fast, and Stronger Together.
• Social Impact: two paid volunteer days off annually, pro-bono consulting projects, and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives through the Social Impact Institute.
• Making a Real-World Impact: help customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency; uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information globally.
• US Benefits: market competitive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance; 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 (employee-paid); optional life and AD&D insurance (employee-paid); Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts; fitness reimbursement; Employee Assistance Program; Group Legal Identity Theft Protection (employee-paid); 529 Plan access; commuter benefits; Adoption & Surrogacy Assistance; Tuition Reimbursement; Employee Stock Purchase Plan access.
• Canada (Ontario) Benefits: base compensation range $172,000 CAD - $222,000 CAD.

Pay

• Eligible office locations: New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and/or Irvine, CA; McLean, VA; Washington, DC. Base compensation range: $181,400 USD - $337,000 USD.
• For any other eligible US locations: base compensation range $157,500 USD - $292,500 USD.
• For Ontario, Canada: base compensation range $172,000 CAD - $222,000 CAD.
• Base pay positioned within range based on knowledge, skills, experience, and internal equity. Base pay is one part of a comprehensive Total Reward program including flexible benefits and wellbeing programs.
• Role may be eligible for an Annual Bonus based on enterprise and individual performance.

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.