Director of Data Science and AI

The Director of Enterprise Data Science will lead a newly formed team driving measurable business value through sophisticated data science and AI/ML solutions. Reporting to the VP of Enterprise Analytics, this highly visible leader will evolve the impact of data science and AI/ML at TR by identifying the highest impact business opportunities, leading the full model development and deployment lifecycle, and evangelizing the measurable business value delivered by the Data Science team.  

About the Role:

• Leads a global team of newly centralized data science talent (8-10 FTEs)

• Oversee the design, development, and deployment of AI/ML solutions for various business domains through all stages of the ML workflow, including data ingestion and manipulation, model building, and model operations

• Identify and prioritize enterprise AI use cases, and define short and long term AI roadmap aligned with broader organizational goals

• Optimize data science and AI portfolio to drive incremental business and customer value

• Work with partners across organizations to improve data infrastructure, enrich data and improve data quality to support ML solutions at scale

About You:

• 10+ years hands-on experience developing data science and AI/ML solutions, including full lifecycle model management and model portfolio optimization

• Minimum of 5+ years of experience building and retaining a high-performing and diverse Data Science team.

• Bachelor’s degree in Statistics, Operation Research, Applied Mathematics, Economics, Computer Science, or a quantitative field. Master’s/PhD a plus.

• Demonstrated leadership managing high visibility cross-enterprise projects

• Strong background in Machine Learning with hands-on experience in building and implementing large-scale ML models

• Expertise with ML modeling techniques (e.g., deep learning, gradient boosting, graph, NLP / LLM, regression, clustering etc.)

• Strong written and oral presentation skills and able to communicate sophisticated concepts to various audience

• Able to effectively balance operational and strategic needs

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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: option