# Director, Engineering, AI

**Company**: Thomson Reuters
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: executive
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Are you passionate about transforming how legal professionals find trusted answers with AI? Join our Global Westlaw Engineering organization and help shape the future of AI-driven legal research.

As Director, you will lead a global organization of engineering managers, senior engineers, and vendor partners. You will own the multi-year AI engineering strategy and its alignment with the product delivery roadmap. You will move the organization to mission-based teams with clear ownership and accountability. You will also drive the shift to AI-assisted, agent-driven development and use engineering data to guide decisions and show results.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Lead a high-performing global organization. Set clear expectations, coach managers and engineers, and lead by example, using AI tools and engineering data in your own work.

- Stay close to the technical work. Work directly with senior engineers on architecture, technical direction, and hard problems to raise the technical bar across the organization.

- Own Engineering strategy implementation and its alignment with the product delivery roadmap.

- Lead the transformation to a mission-based operating model.

- Set measures for each mission.

- Manage the vendor relationship.

- Decide what to do in-house, with partners, or through vendors.

- Communicate proactively.

**Deliver:**

- Deliver strategic projects with urgency.

- Drive the end-to-end AI lifecycle.

- Set the standard for operational excellence.

- Manage the project portfolio.

**Operate: Run a Data-Driven, AI-Enabled Organization :**

- Provide guardrails and empower teams to use AI.

- Make decisions with data.

- Track ownership and accountability.

- Measure the impact of AI.

- Own the economics of AI usage.

**Innovate:**

- Stay on top of the AI landscape.

- Try new approaches.

**Required Qualifications:**

- Education: A bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

- Experience: 10+ years in software development, including 3+ years leading AI solution development, and 10+ years managing managers and building high-performing engineering teams in an agile environment.

- Organizational leadership: Experience leading managers, individual contributors, and vendor-managed teams.

- Strategy and execution: Experience turning a multi-year vision into programs, roadmaps, and measurable results.

- Shipping AI in production: A track record of shipping LLM-based applications.

- Cloud, DevOps, and reliability: Strong depth in cloud-native architecture on AWS.

- Hands-on AI tool use: Daily use of AI coding tools.

- Data-driven leadership and AI economics: Experience defining and analyzing metrics.

- Leading change: Experience shifting team mindsets.

- Communication: Excellent communication skills.

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- Experience leading globally distributed teams.

- Agentic systems and responsible AI.

- LLM APIs, search, and agent frameworks.

- Vendor and cost management.

- Career paths.

- Technical background.

- Domain background.

**What's in it For You?:**

- Hybrid Work Model.

- Flexibility & Work-Life Balance.

- Career Development and Growth.

- Industry Competitive Benefits.

- Culture.

- Social Impact.

- Making a Real-World Impact.

## Skills

### Required
- AI
- Engineering
- Leadership
- Cloud-native architecture
- DevOps
- AWS
- Python
- RESTful API design
- GitHub
- AI tool use
- Data analysis
- Communication

### Nice to have
- Agentic systems
- Responsible AI
- LLM APIs
- Search systems
- Agent frameworks
- Vendor management
- Cost management
- Career development
- Technical leadership

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