Senior Director, Applied Research

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🕒 April 14

🗽 New York – Remote

🗽 New York – Remote

💵 $198.2k - $368k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👔 Director

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Thomson Reuters

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10,000+ employees

Founded 2008

💸 Finance

📱 Media

☁️ SaaS

Finance • Media • SaaS

Thomson Reuters is a global content and technology company that provides professionals with reliable and accurate solutions across the legal, tax and accounting, international trade, and risk management sectors. The company offers a range of products including legal research tools, tax preparation software, compliance and regulatory solutions, and media services like Reuters for global news. With significant investments in generative AI, Thomson Reuters continues to innovate in helping professionals optimize their workflows and enhance their decision-making. Their platforms serve various industries such as law firms, corporations, tax professionals, and media organizations, providing essential tools that combine powerful technology with in-depth expert content.

📋 Description

• Lead and develop a high-performing applied science team working on agentic AI for tax and accounting professionals • Drive the design and delivery of AI features that meaningfully reimagine customer workflows in high-stakes, accuracy-critical settings • Serve as a strategic thought partner to Labs leadership, product leadership, and key business stakeholders on long-term AI strategy, partnerships, and capability roadmap • Influence product strategy through deep technical knowledge combined with insight from usage data, quality metrics, and customer feedback • Continuously improve ways of working across R&D and product engineering in a fast-paced, tightly embedded delivery cycle • Engage domain and subject matter experts in concept development and design workshops • Foster a team culture of innovation, rigour, collaboration, and continuous learning

🎯 Requirements

• PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field or Master's with a strong science background and relevant publication record — required • 10+ years of hands-on industry experience building AI/ML systems for commercial applications — not research-only experience • Recent, direct hands-on experience developing LLM-based and agentic AI systems for production, non-trivial use cases • 5+ years of experience managing and developing high-performing applied science or ML teams • Demonstrated success in product- or customer-facing roles, with business and customer impact as the primary measure of success • Technical depth in AI/ML sufficient to provide effective challenge, expand on team ideas, and support high-quality technical decision-making. • Technical depth in information retrieval and NLP, with experience in complex vertical domains — taxonomy induction, document understanding, agentic search, knowledge graphs, or neuro-symbolic approaches • Experience with AI agent evaluation, language model training with verifiable rewards, and synthetic data generation • Publications at ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, NeurIPS, ICLR, SIGIR, KDD, or equivalent • Experience building AI solutions for tax, legal, audit, or accounting domains • Track record of growth at top-tier technology companies or high-growth startups.

🏖️ Benefits

• Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities. • Flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year. • 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. • Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and more. • 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. • Comprehensive benefits package including market competitive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance programs, as well as a competitive 401k plan with company match.