Reuters reaches a global audience of more than 1 billion people each day. We employ over 2,700 journalists in nearly 200 locations worldwide. Trusted by the media and financial markets, we provide real-time news in text, photos, and video formats across every content category and in more than 20 languages.

We are seeking a visionary product manager at the intersection of technology and content management to join our product team as Director of Content Platforms. The ideal candidate will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of digital content management and distribution for Reuters and the broader global news media ecosystem.

About the Role:

As the Director of Content Platforms, you will head the strategic development and operational execution of our advanced Content Platform. This platform is the single source of truth for all content across Reuters; content versioning, content enrichment, content distribution and content metadata, including custom taxonomies, lineage, and provenance. Our content platform will enable robust search capabilities and content enrichment services, leveraging AI and machine learning to enhance our content offerings. Your leadership will ensure that Reuters remains at the forefront of digital innovation, meeting the complex needs of a global audience and adhering to stringent compliance and legal standards.

As our Director of Content Platforms, you will:

Vision and Strategy: Craft and communicate a clear vision and strategic plan for the Content Platform, aligning with business goals and technological advancements.

Collaboration and Stakeholder Management: Work closely with stakeholders across departments—including technology, product, finance, sales, marketing, and editorial—to gather insights and align platform capabilities with business needs.

Roadmap Development and Execution: Create and maintain a dynamic roadmap that prioritizes features and enhancements based on business impact and technical feasibility, as well as evolving content needs across the business, including the evolution of AI based content enrichment.

Platform Optimization and Innovation: Continuously evaluate and optimize the platform for performance, scalability, and cost-efficiency. Explore and integrate cutting-edge technologies and methodologies to keep the platform state-of-the-art.

Content Distribution: Oversee the strategic development and enhancement of content distribution platforms, including APIs and cloud delivery systems, ensuring robust, scalable solutions that meet both current and future business needs.

Technology Leadership: Provide technical leadership and guidance in the integration and efficient operation of content distribution technologies such as Reuters API, Content Engine, and associated content download and push delivery platforms, ensuring high reliability and performance.

Team Development: Lead, mentor, and expand the build team. Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and accountability.

Performance Measurement: Define success metrics and KPIs to evaluate the impact of the Content Platform on business objectives. Use data-driven insights to refine platform strategies and deliver measurable business value.

Simplification: Work closely with technology partners to identify and deliver on opportunities for simplification and cost efficiency across Reuters

About You:

To be our Director of Content Platforms, you will likely have:

Significant experience in technical product management, particularly in content-centric platforms. Familiarity with digital asset management solutions is highly desirable.

Deep understanding of API integration, cloud services, data architecture, and modern development frameworks. Ability to oversee complex technical projects and make informed decisions.

Excellent ability to conceptualize long-term business strategies and translate them into actionable plans.

Strong communication skills with the ability to articulate technical and business concepts to diverse audiences. Proficient in stakeholder management.

Platform and Product Lifecycle management expertise

Be able to bridge technical and business conversations to translate complex concepts into clear business terms for senior stakeholders

Be proficient in building business cases that support decision making

Be able to motivate and drive virtual, multi-cultural teams to successful delivery and resolve conflicts

Have expertise in using data and analytics to set key success metrics and monitor product performance

Please note, the deadline for applications is Friday 7th March 2025.

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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.

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 $177,380 - $329,420.
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.

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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