Director, Product Portfolio Management

Thomson Reuters•Eagan, MN

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Portfolio Management team ensures product investments and resources are directed toward the most strategic, highest-priority opportunities. Working across the product organization, the team partners with product leaders and informs enterprise investment decisions. The Director, Product Portfolio Management brings an objective, portfolio-wide perspective to product planning, funding, and rationalization. The role partners with Product Management, Product Operations, Product Engineering, Finance, and Strategy to run processes that connect strategy to investment decisions and financial outcomes, moving between individual business cases and the broader portfolio. AI is central to the team's analysis and decision-making, and the role is expected to expand its use.

Requirements

8+ years of experience in portfolio management, product management, product strategy, or product operations, ideally in a product, technology, or software organization.
A strong track record of managing processes and building relationships with cross-functional partners.
Outstanding organizational and communication skills, including the ability to synthesize and simplify complex ideas.
A bachelor's degree or equivalent.
Understanding of how product, engineering, and design work together, sufficient to contextualize portfolio and investment decisions.
A solid grasp of the Thomson Reuters product portfolio, product strategy, and the legal, tax, corporate, and risk and fraud markets and their dynamics.
Financial acumen and comfort analyzing profitability and business cases, including ROI, IRR, and NPV.
Fluency with and enthusiasm for AI tools, with active use of AI to accelerate analysis, synthesis, and decision-making.
Strong communication and collaboration skills, including engaging stakeholders and communicating clearly with senior leadership.
Execution orientation, including leading cross-functional teams and external partners to timely decisions and following through.
Critical thinking and sound judgment, including making trade-offs, challenging assumptions, and asking provocative questions.
Comfort with ambiguity and the ability to adapt and help others navigate complex situations.
Data-driven approach, strong attention to detail, and comfort using analytics and BI tools.

Nice To Haves

MBA, particularly one that provides strong financial and commercial grounding.
Product management experience and familiarity with the software development lifecycle and how product teams operate.
Hands-on financial modeling experience, including building or stress-testing investment and profitability models.

Responsibilities

Lead the annual capital planning cycle, including investment prioritization guidance and templates, kickoff sessions, stakeholder reviews, funding decisions, and in-year funding requests.
Analyze product performance and profitability with Corporate Finance, supporting recommendations on coverage levels, product sunsets, and the divestiture pipeline.
Own and maintain the master product list and portfolio taxonomy, ensuring accuracy, consistency, connections to reporting and dependent systems, and communication of changes to stakeholders.
Track business cases throughout the investment and delivery lifecycle, ensuring decisions are informed, documented, and followed through.
Use AI tools to accelerate analysis, synthesis, decision support, and portfolio reporting, and continually improve how the team applies AI.
Partner with Finance on capital allocation, profitability, and the financial analysis supporting portfolio decisions.
Provide insights to support resource and people planning and direct resources toward the highest-priority products.
Evaluate product roadmaps and distill complex product and financial information into clear insights for leadership and investor relations.
Align stakeholders across Product, Engineering, Operations, Finance, and Strategy, influencing portfolio trade-offs and supporting follow-through.

Benefits

Flexible vacation and supportive workplace policies for work-life balance, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year.
Two company-wide Mental Health Days off annually and access to the Headspace app.
Retirement savings plan with company match.
Tuition reimbursement.
Employee incentive programs and an annual bonus may be available based on enterprise and individual performance.
Resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing, including an Employee Assistance Program and fitness reimbursement.
Health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance.
Paid holidays and parental leave.
Sabbatical leave.
Two paid volunteer days off annually.
Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts.
Commuter benefits.
Adoption and surrogacy assistance.
Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
Optional hospital, accident and sickness insurance; optional life and AD&D insurance; and group legal and identity theft protection benefit.