Director, AI-Driven Product Portfolio

Thomson Reuters; Eagan (MN); Hybrid; USD 181,000 - 337,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid Work Model

Flexible vacation & work-life balance

Mental health days & Headspace access

Job summary

Thomson Reuters in the United States seeks a Director of Product Portfolio Management to orchestrate capital planning, profitability analysis, and portfolio governance across product groups. You will partner with Product, Engineering, Finance, and Strategy to translate strategy into funded initiatives and measurable outcomes.

You will lead AI-enabled analyses, drive portfolio rationalization, and ensure alignment with senior leadership on investments, roadmaps, and reporting.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in portfolio management, product management, product strategy, or product operations, ideally within a product, technology, or software organization.
• 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.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent; MBA preferred, particularly one that brings strong financial and commercial grounding.
• Understands how product, engineering, and design work together to contextualize portfolio and investment decisions.
• Knowledge of Thomson Reuters product portfolio and markets: legal, tax, corporates, risk & fraud.
• Financial acumen, comfortable analyzing profitability and business cases (ROI, IRR, NPV).
• Fluency and enthusiasm for AI tools to accelerate analysis and decision-making.
• Excellent communication and collaboration, with ability to inform senior leadership.
• Strong execution orientation with cross-functional leadership.
• Critical thinking and sound judgment; comfortable challenging assumptions.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity and adapt quickly.
• Data-driven mindset with analytics and BI tool use.

Responsibilities

• Lead the annual capital planning cycle from guidance creation to funding decisions and in-year funding management.
• Analyze product performance and profitability to support portfolio recommendations across the pipeline.
• Maintain a master product list and portfolio taxonomy; ensure stakeholders are informed of changes.
• Track business cases and investment decisions throughout the lifecycle with clear documentation.
• Put AI at the center of analysis and decision support across planning, profitability, and reporting.
• Collaborate with Finance on capital allocation and profitability grounded in facts.
• Support resource and people planning to direct resources to top-priority products.
• Distill portfolio stories for leadership and investor relations.

Skills

Portfolio management

Cross-functional leadership

Organizational skills

Financial acumen

AI fluency

Communication skills

Ambiguity tolerance

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree

MBA preferred

Tools

BI tools

Job description

Thomson Reuters in the United States seeks a Director of Product Portfolio Management to orchestrate capital planning, profitability analysis, and portfolio governance across product groups. You will partner with Product, Engineering, Finance, and Strategy to translate strategy into funded initiatives and measurable outcomes.

You will lead AI-enabled analyses, drive portfolio rationalization, and ensure alignment with senior leadership on investments, roadmaps, and reporting.