Director Product Management - Developer Experience

TRSS; London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading company as the Director of Product Management - Developer Experience, where you'll lead a dynamic team to enhance the developer experience for our CoCounsel Platform. This pivotal role focuses on integrating innovative solutions, driving strategic initiatives, and fostering developer communities, all while balancing stakeholder needs. With a competitive salary and a commitment to work-life balance, you’ll be part of an award-winning workplace culture dedicated to growth and social impact.

Benefits

Flexible hybrid work environment

Comprehensive benefit plans

Career development and growth programs

Mental health resources

Volunteer days off

Qualifications

• At least 10 years’ experience as a product manager on a technology product.
• Experience managing developer or technical products.
• Strong developer-as-customer mindset.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive developer experience strategy aligned with customer outcomes.
• Lead and mentor a team of product managers.
• Build and nurture developer communities.

Skills

Technical product management

Developer experience

Leadership

Communication

Process-driven

Education

10 years experience in product management

Job description

As an employee at Thomson Reuters, you will play a pivotal role in shaping and leading the global knowledge economy. Our technology and content drive global markets and help professionals around the world make decisions that matter. Whether solving today’s challenges or pursuing tomorrow’s aspirations, you will collaborate with the industry’s brightest thinkers on diverse projects, creating next-generation solutions that deliver powerful results.

Join the Legal Tech Product team as we work to transform the future of the professional workplace. We aren’t just changing the way customers engage with us—we are transforming and reimagining our business by focusing on building exceptional experiences. We are looking for curious, smart, and self-driven product professionals who love the challenge of turning complex problems and constraints into elegant, economical solutions that meet our customers’ needs.

This is a key leadership role within the CoCounsel Product Team and is responsible for the platform that delivers AI capabilities to Thomson Reuters customers globally. The CoCounsel Platform provides tools and technologies that enable teams within Thomson Reuters to build and deploy AI capabilities for CoCounsel . These technologies are fundamental to the success of CoCounsel ; they empower teams across Thomson Reuters to leverage their expertise and provide innovative customer solutions powered by Generative AI.

The CoCounsel Platform team is also responsible for delivering platform capabilities to CoCounsel customers, third-party developers, and partners. These capabilities allow developers to create new solutions that leverage Thomson Reuters’ intelligence, content, and technology to deliver differentiated value to the market.

We are seeking a Director of Product Management to lead a team of product managers in defining and executing CoCounsel Platform’s developer strategy, both internally and externally. This role involves delivering technology, content, and processes that enable and support developers to integrate with and build on the CoCounsel Platform. You will be responsible for developing and executing a commercially successful strategy while managing the needs of developers, customers, and other stakeholders.

About the Role

In this opportunity as Director Product Management - Developer Experience, you will:

• Define and drive developer experience strategy aligned with customer and business outcomes.
• Design and implement best-in-class developer experiences grounded in deep empathy for developer needs.
• Balance innovation with practicality by integrating cutting-edge capabilities alongside standard tools and processes used by developers.
• Lead and mentor a high-performing team of product managers, setting strategic direction and fostering a culture of empowerment and success.
• Build and nurture developer communities, leveraging network effects to achieve measurable commercial impact.
• Establish and execute governance frameworks that ensure sustainable and scalable ecosystem growth.
• Integrate AI into developer workflows, recognizing its transformative role in both development practices and customer-facing capabilities.
• Champion developer experience across the organization, influencing cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
• Deliver incremental value rapidly by breaking down complex initiatives into manageable, high-impact deliverables within matrixed environments.
• Continuously learn and adapt, demonstrating resilience and curiosity in the face of challenges and change.

About You

You’re a fit for the role of Director Product Management - Developer Experience if you have the following required qualifications:

• At least 10 years’ experience as a product manager on a technology product, with at least 3 years leading teams of product managers.

• Experience managing developer or technical products.

• Deep domain expertise in developer experience and platform ecosystems.

• Strong developer-as-customer mindset; passionate advocate for the needs of developers.

• Technical experience preferred; able to synthesize technically complex problems and translate them into developer-focused solutions.

• Process-driven; understands the importance of good governance and the role data plays in managing developer ecosystems.

• Proven track record of successfully executing complex initiatives and consistently delivering on expectations.

• Excellent communicator, able to explain complex concepts in easy-to-understand terms to both internal and external stakeholders, in both small and large settings.

• Skilled at influencing decision-makers on product strategy.

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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.

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.

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. More information on requesting an accommodation here.

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