Director, Product Portfolio Management

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

Director, Product Portfolio Management

Job Description:

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.

Key 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 you will be responsible for analyzing 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.

Required Qualifications

• 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 and behaviors
• 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, you actively use AI to accelerate analysis, synthesis, and decision-making.
• Outstanding communication and a collaboration mindset, you synthesize and simplify complex ideas and engage with all stakeholders to support clear and timely communication to senior leadership.
• A strong execution orientation, you lead cross-functional teams and external partners to timely decisions and follow through.
• Critical thinking and sound judgment, you make smart trade-offs and are comfortable challenging assumptions and asking the provocative questions.
• Comfort with ambiguity, you adapt nimbly and help others navigate complex situations.
• Data-driven, you seek out and analyze data, with strong attention to detail and comfort using analytics and BI tools.

Preferred 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.

What's in it For You?

• Hybrid Work Model: We've adopted a flexible hybrid working environment 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.

Our use of AI within the recruitment process Thomson Reuters utilizes Artificial Intelligence (AI) to support parts of our global recruitment process. Unless you opt-out, our AI system will assess the information provided by you and compare it to the requirements listed for the role, and present the result to our recruitment personnel for further review. The AI system acts as a supporting tool, but there is always a human making the decision if you will be considered for the role.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 $181,400 USD - $337,000 USD.For any eligible US locations, unless otherwise noted, the base compensation range for this role is $157,500 USD - $292,500 USD.For Ontario, Canada, the base compensation range for this role is $172,000 CAD - $222,000 CAD.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.This role may also be eligible for an Annual Bonus based on a combination of 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. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.

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