Vice President, Data & BI Platforms

New Position: This position is open due to an existing vacancy to support our evolving business needs. Role Overview

As the Vice President of Data & BI Platforms within Data & Analytics (D&A), you will lead the strategic vision, design and implementation of enterprise data and AI capabilities that transform how Thomson Reuters manages, governs and derives value from its data assets. You will be accountable for driving a data-driven culture across Thomson Reuters, partnering with all parts of the business to uplift capabilities in data stewardship, data quality, AI governance, and data risk management.

This senior leadership role demands strong technical depth, systems thinking and an outcome-driven approach, applying AI across analytics, insights and automation use cases, all aligned with Thomson Reuters' strategic objectives. You will have accountability for Thomson Reuters data and BI platform teams, guiding global data teams in delivering scalable, high-quality and AI-ready data solutions that embed intelligence, reasoning, and automation into core Thomson Reuters workflows and data products, driving measurable business outcomes.

About the Role

As the VP, Data & BI Platforms you will report into the Head of Data & Analytics (Chief Data Officer) and will lead a global team of 40 people.  In this role, you will:

• Develop and execute Data and BI platforms data and AI strategy, ensuring alignment with Thomson Reuters' overall business objectives.
• Build data and AI systems that leverage TR's data and analytics foundations to generate new intelligence, insights, and automation capabilities.
• Explore emerging technologies and evaluate their applicability to solve complex, enterprise-wide challenges.
• Provide strategic direction for end-to-end data workflows, including data processing, enrichment, integration and the foundational pipelines that enable AI and analytics use cases.
• Lead the development of scalable data pipelines that extract, transform and enrich enterprise data, ensuring they are fit for purpose across both analytics and AI applications.
• Implement AI-enabled solutions for tasks including classification, extraction, summarization, linking, reconciliation, anomaly detection and workflow automation.
• Deliver intelligent, workflow-driven solutions that support diverse internal teams across analytics, operations, finance and product.
• Collaborate closely with research scientists to operationalize new techniques and rigorously evaluate model quality and performance.
• Partner with Data, Cloud, Product and AI Platform teams to ensure solutions are scalable, secure and effectively integrated.
• Manage resource planning and influence budget decisions to optimize team effectiveness and project delivery.
• Represent Thomson Reuters as a thought leader in data management, governance and AI adoption through relevant industry forums, conferences and publications (optional but encouraged).
• Design, implement, operate and evolve the TR Data Stewardship by implementing processes and tools, training and operating models.
• Establish pragmatic, scalable data governance frameworks that build trust in data quality, reduce data risk and deliver measurable value to customers, colleagues and shareholders.
• Define and embed enterprise standards for data quality measurement, metadata management and data lineage and provenance, working in close partnership with the D&A Data Management, BI and Data Platform teams to operationalise these practices at scale.
• Drive automation of Data Stewardship and AI Governance, partnering with BI, Data Platform and AI Platform teams to reduce manual overhead, increase consistency and scale governance capabilities.
• Lead and develop a globally distributed team through managers, driving talent assessments, performance differentiation and fostering an inclusive, high-performance culture across all levels.
• Influence and align senior leadership and key stakeholders, translating complex data topics into compelling narratives around strategy, progress, risks and business impact.

About You

You are a great fit for this role if you:

• Have demonstrated experience leading data and BI platform teams and enabling AI capabilities at scale.
• Have experience building AI/ML systems and integrating them into large-scale enterprise environments.
• Are adept at working with complex and varied datasets, building AI layers on top of data products, pipelines and semantic models.
• Have experience with LLMs, agentic systems, retrieval, embeddings and automated reasoning.
• Demonstrate proven success in leading large, geographically distributed engineering teams through managers, fostering high performance and collaboration.
• Exhibit strong strategic decision-making skills, shaping AI engineering strategies and policies aligned with Thomson Reuters' broader business goals.
• Champion an inclusive, high-trust culture where diverse perspectives are encourages, teams are empowered to contribute boldly and a high-performance culture drives exceptional results.
• Thrive in collaborative environments, translating enterprise needs into actionable AI capabilities that deliver tangible business value.
• Are motivated by building systems that produce measurable, real-world outcomes.
• Are recognized internally and externally as a thought leader, contributing to industry forums or publications (if applicable).
• Have demonstrated experience in data governance, model risk management or model governance. 
• Can build, evolve and drive adoption of simple and effective processes.

Location

You will work in a hybrid environment, spending a minimum of three days a week in office and will ideally be based in one of our hub locations in New York City, Minneapolis, Dallas, Toronto, Zug, Bangalore, Hyderabad or Mexico City.

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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.

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 $228,000 USD - $424,000 USD. For any eligible US locations, unless otherwise noted, the base compensation range for this role is $198,200 USD - $368,000 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.

Thomson Reuters makes reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities, including veterans with disabilities, and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law. If you reside in the United States and require an accommodation in the recruiting process, you may contact our Human Resources Department at HR.Leave-Expert@thomsonreuters.com. Disability accommodations in the recruiting process may include things like a sign language interpreter, making interview rooms accessible, providing assistive technology, or other relevant accommodations. Please note this email is not intended for general recruitment questions and we will promptly respond to inquiries regarding accommodations. More information on requesting an accommodation here.

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