Lead Product Engineer, AI Ventures

Thomson Reuters•Frisco, TX

2d•$118,400 - $253,000•Hybrid

About The Position

As a Lead Product Engineer, AI Ventures, you will own the design direction for early-stage AI product opportunities within Thomson Reuters’ AI Ventures incubation team. You will use user research, rapid prototyping, experimentation, and strong product judgment to validate ideas and reduce product uncertainty. Working closely with Product and Engineering, you will turn ambiguous customer and workflow problems into clear, testable concepts and help determine which opportunities should progress toward production.

Requirements

Experienced product-focused professional who enjoys working in 0→1, incubation, venture, startup, or early-stage product environments.
Comfortable working with ambiguity, speaking directly with users, testing ideas quickly, and turning insights into clear product recommendations.
Significant experience designing digital products, ideally including new products or early-stage concepts.
A strong portfolio or work examples demonstrating product thinking, interaction design, visual design quality, and shipped product experiences.
Experience designing AI-powered products, complex decision-support tools, or professional workflow products.
Strong experience with user discovery, customer conversations, rapid prototyping, and concept testing.
Ability to move quickly from an idea to a testable prototype using modern design and prototyping tools, including AI-assisted tools where appropriate.
Experience partnering closely with Product Managers, Engineers, and senior stakeholders.
Strong communication skills with the ability to clearly explain design rationale, customer insights, and product evidence.
Experience working in enterprise or regulated environments where accessibility, trust, transparency, or compliance are important.
A strong customer mindset and the ability to design experiences that help professional users understand, trust, and confidently use AI-powered products.

Responsibilities

Lead product discovery and concept validation through user research, rapid prototyping, and business context.
Turn ambiguous customer problems and workflows into clear, testable product concepts.
Rapidly prototype different product directions to evaluate workflow, product value, and user experience.
Use evidence from users, Product, and Engineering to recommend whether ideas should be built, changed, paused, or stopped.
Own the end-to-end product experience, including workflows, screens, key states, and interaction details.
Design AI-powered professional experiences that go beyond simple chat interfaces and static screens.
Help users understand AI-generated outputs, their limitations, and the choices available to them.
Create reusable patterns for AI-assisted workflows with an emphasis on transparency, accessibility, user control, and trust.
Partner closely with Product and Engineering from discovery through delivery.
Translate prototypes into feasible product direction and remain involved as successful concepts move toward production.
Help establish a high bar for product and experience quality across early AI Ventures products.
Balance rapid experimentation with enterprise expectations around quality, accessibility, trust, and compliance.

Benefits

Flexible hybrid working environment
Flex My Way policies
Work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year
Continuous learning and skill development
Grow My Way programming
Skills-first approach
Flexible vacation
Two company-wide Mental Health Days off
Access to the Headspace app
Retirement savings
Tuition reimbursement
Employee incentive programs
Resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing
Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance
Two paid volunteer days off annually
Opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives
Market competitive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance programs
Competitive 401k plan with company match
Competitive vacation, sick and safe paid time off
Paid holidays
Parental leave
Sabbatical leave
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
Access to Employee Stock Purchase Plan