Principal Product Manager, CoCounsel for Tax, Acctg & Audit

Summary:

Are you looking for an opportunity to build a market-changing product? The Principal Product Manager in our CoCounsel for Tax, Accounting and Audit team leads the delivery of end-to-end product experiences that revolutionize processes for U.S. tax, accounting and audit professionals.

Your mission will be to harness the power of AI and key technologies to create an automated and connected tax preparation experience across our broad portfolio of award-winning UltraTax and U.S. tax products and capabilities. This mission is in service of our broader vision to create the most connected, automated, insight-driven, open ecosystem that makes tax, accounting, and audit professionals more successful and delights their clients.

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 will work closely with colleagues from Product, Compliance, Engineering, TR Labs, and Design teams who are already dedicated to delivering on this mission. Teams are working closely with customers to create product experiences that are unmatched in the market today. In this role, you will work with leaders and stakeholders from these teams in refining our product roadmap, while also playing a very hands-on role in leading cross-functional distributed product teams through product discovery and delivery.

About the Role
The Principal Product Manager will have extensive, successful experience owning and driving product requirements, synthesizing technologies and capabilities into scalable products, prioritizing between features, architectural improvements, and operational excellence. This person will be responsible for consolidating and delivering a roadmap that focuses on innovation, optimization, and/or modernization on our most critically important projects and investments.

The Principal PM is our most senior individual contributor role and is expected to be an expert in every facet of the Product lifecycle, and of all the core tenants of Product Management. Autonomy, judgment, influence, and leadership skills are essential. The successful Principal will be a self-starter comfortable with ambiguity, with strong attention to detail, and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment. They will drive the long-term vision through the development of vision documents, the definition of business requirements, and launch and post-launch measurement, often also developing and indirectly leading the functional work of a small team of product managers.

They will also serve as a key player with cross-functional teams across the company, working to align interests and implement scalable solutions. Externally, they are seen as a thought leader in their space – understanding their market and customers and anticipating future trends and direction. 

About the Role
As a Principal Product Manager you will:

• Develop strong product intuition by interpreting and assessing highly complex and ambiguous customer problems, business needs, and opportunities and delivering potential solutions.

• Build world-class capabilities and products by creating a vision for the product maintaining the product roadmap and partnering closely with the dev team and UX to execute the roadmap and deliver efficiently. This includes serving as the customer voice for the engineering teams, prioritizing the product backlog based on customer and business value, and using metrics to monitor and measure progress.

• Demonstrate leadership by taking ownership of products, product lines or small product families, 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. You will socialize and align a wide variety of cross-functional stakeholders to strategy, vision, and roadmap.

• You will be a well-rounded AI expert for our teams by staying on the cutting edge of AI and technology development, inspiring teams to ideate and experiment with applying AI, and sharing your unique perspective on how AI can propel the tax, accounting and audit professions through writing, blogging, and shareouts with teams and customers

• You will be a thought leader inside and outside the organization, often writing / blogging and speaking at events.

 About You:

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

• Curious & Innovative, starting with an obsession for our customers’ problems and needs and then working closely with customers, partners, and other Thomson Reuters colleag