Principal Product Manager

Summary:

Are you looking for an opportunity to build market-changing products? The Principal Product Manager, Audit AI role leads the delivery of end-to-end product experiences that revolutionize the financial statement audit process for U.S. tax & accounting professionals.

Your mission will be to harness the power of AI and key technologies to create an automated and connected audit workflow experience across our broad portfolio of award-winning audit products and capabilities. This mission serves our wider vision to create the most connected, automated, insight-driven, open ecosystem that makes tax, accounting, and audit professionals more successful and delights their clients. In this role, you will report to the Vice President of Product Management for Audit in the Accounting, Tax, Practice & Audit Product team, supporting the Tax, Accounting, and Audit Professionals business.

Thomson Reuters leads at the intersection of content and technology with trusted data, workflow automation, and AI. TR has a bold vision to be the leader in AI-powered, content-driven technology, and the Principal Product Manager, AI Audit, will work closely with colleagues from Product, Design, Engineering, and AI Engineering teams who are already dedicated to delivering on this mission. Teams are working closely with customers to create a product experience that is unmatched in the market today. In this role, you will collaborate with leaders and stakeholders from these teams to refine our product strategy and roadmap, while also playing a hands-on leadership role in inspiring and guiding cross-functional, distributed product teams through product discovery and delivery.

About the Role

As a Principal Product Manager, you will find that no two days or hours are alike and will include engaging with customers to understand their needs and promote our vision, advocating with internal stakeholders, refining product strategy, defining and acting on product metrics, creating business cases, roadmap planning, AI-assisted prototyping and rapid iteration, experimenting with and spreading new AI-enabled ways of working, and more. You will have the opportunity and be accountable for maximizing customer and business value with our AI-powered audit experience.

As a Principal Product Manager, you will: 

• Develop strong product intuition by interpreting and assessing customer problems, business needs, and opportunities, and offering potential solutions with a minimum level of guidance and direction.

• Build world-class capabilities and products by creating a vision for the product, maintaining the product roadmap, and partnering closely with other product managers, designers, and technology teams to execute the roadmap and deliver efficiently. This includes using AI tools to prototype, research, and validate ideas rapidly, bringing customer insight and your own hands-on experimentation to shape what the team builds, and using metrics to monitor and measure progress.

• Demonstrate leadership by taking extreme ownership of assigned audit products, their performance and reliability, and delighting our clients with a positive experience. You will show that you can learn from your experiences, recover from setbacks, and effectively evangelize the product vision to colleagues and customers.

• You will be a well-rounded AI expert from your previous experience delivering new AI-based products and by staying on the cutting edge of AI and technology development. You will use this experience and knowledge to inspire teams to ideate and experiment with applying AI, and sharing your unique perspective on how AI can propel the tax, accounting, and audit profession through written and live communication with TR teams and customers.

About You

To be successful in achieving these goals, you will be:

• Curious & Innovative, starting with an obsession for our customers' problems and needs, working closely with customers, partners, and other Thomson Reuters colleagues to solve them in compelling ways.

• Agile with a strong sense of urgency and a desire to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment to deliver solutions against strict timelines, unafraid of failure.

• An effective communicator who projects confidence and communicates concisely and clearly to management, peers, customers, and partners.

Foundational Skills

Successful Principal Product Manager (PPM) candidates will currently exhibit and show the aspiration to further develop the following skills:

AI Product Expertise

• Deep understanding of GenAI vs. traditional ML approaches and their product implications; hands-on experience using AI tools to prototype, research, and iterate — not just knowledge of AI, but active use of it in your daily work and product process

• Experience with AI product evaluation, experimentation, delivery, and performance optimization

• Strong data analysis skills and comfort with quantitative analysis

• Background in AI search/information retrieval, ranking systems, and LLM/agentic products

• Direct experience in the financial audit industry is strongly preferred

Product Leadership

• Proven track record of shipping impactful AI products at scale

• Systems thinking approach to complex product challenges

• Strong product sense and opinions on where AI technology is heading

• Experience balancing "good enough" to launch vs. perfect in fast-moving environments

Culture & Mindset

• High agency and ownership mentality—you see problems and solve them

• AI-native in your daily work — using AI to prototype, research, communicate, and discover, not just talk about it — and genuinely curious about the technology

• Exceptional communication skills and ability to influence across teams

• Strong ability to build relationships and collaborate across many different teams and personalities, both internal and external

• Thrives in fast-paced, ambiguous environments

Preferred Qualifications

• Experienced Product Management professional 

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or computer science preferred, or equivalent experience  

• 10+ years of Product Management experience 

• Experience in fintech, with previous experience in creating tax & accounting SaaS products, strongly preferred

• Proven high energy, highly collaborative approach working in cross-functional matrixed environments to drive product delivery and product outcomes

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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.

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. 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.

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.

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