Vice President, AI Platform

The Core AI & Data Platforms Team has been established to create, operate and run the Enterprise AI, BI and Data that facilitate the time to market for reporting, analytics and data science teams to run experiments, train models and generate insights as well as evolve and run the CoCounsel application and its shared capability of CoCounsel AI Assistant. The AI Platform aims to foster a culture of innovation, enables rapid development of AI solutions, and drive transformative outcomes to stakeholders. Towards this vision, it currently serves as a comprehensive ecosystem of collaborative services, tools, and infrastructure empowering both technical and non-technical users to seamlessly develop, evaluate, deploy and monitor AI solutions tailored to various business use cases and personas. Through prioritizing transparency, reusability of prompts, models and workflows, and swift integration of emerging AI frameworks like Generative AI, the AI Platform strives to redefine the landscape of AI solutions whether for experimentation or for a production environment.

About the Role

The Vice President, AI Platform is responsible for building, operating and evolving the AI Platform to support technical and non-technical users on the adoption of AI. They will engage with data science, engineering and product teams across the company to ensure feature/function requirements are understood and prioritized to drive maximum value for customers and colleagues. This leader will deliver capabilities that will accelerate innovation and enable thousands of experiments and AI solutions to run simultaneously, at speed and scale.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, operate and evolve the multi-cloud AI Platform including:
• Advanced tooling for prompting, evaluations and AI Agent centric workflows
• Standardization and automation of the path to production for AI solutions
• Automated model development lifecycle, devops, model validation, lineage
• Model operations capabilities including monitoring for model drift, testing for ethics and bias
• Training and support of a wide user base with varying levels of expertise
• Design and implement strong security and privacy enhancing technologies and methods
• Actively track and report progress to senior stakeholders on progress, adoption and value enablement
• Ensure a diverse and inclusive organization, driving team growth
• Work collaboratively with all parts of TR to drive an AI-driven culture
• Achieve Financial Plan target; drive productivity improvements

This role will partner across the Product, Data & Analytics and Product Engineering organization to:

• Automate Data and Model Governance processes (with Responsible AI team)
• Drive the GenAI Platform agenda, integrating with Content and making the path to production frictionless and timely

About You

You are a fit for this role if you possess the following:

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering or equivalent experience
• Hands on experience with AI/ML engineering frameworks
• A minimum of 10 years of experience in software development and deployment
• Prior experience working in a large, geographically dispersed organization.
• Experience leading and developing highly effective teams
• 10+ years of software development leadership and/or executive positions
• Extensive experience creating and executing technology strategy and technical roadmaps
• Ability to understand, evaluate and discuss technical integration scenarios and architectural concepts
• Experience with Agile methodologies and understanding of modern web/SaaS technologies and systems
• Experience presenting strategy and operational updates to senior executives
• Ability to prioritize, self-initiate, and create momentum, even with partial guidance or information

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience in driving large-scale change across a global organization
• Strong organization, analytical and problem-solving skills with an end-user focus
• Exceptionally strong verbal and written communication skills with ability to effectively communicate updates and desired outcomes in a succinct manner
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What’s in it For You?

You will join our inclusive culture of world-class talent, where we are committed to your personal and professional growth through:

Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.

Wellbeing: Comprehensive benefit plans; flexible and supportive benefits for work-life balance: two company-wide Mental Health Days Off; Headspace app subscription; retirement, savings, tuition reimbursement, and employee incentive programs; resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.

Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.

Learning & Development: LinkedIn Learning access; internal Talent Marketplace with opportunities to work on projects cross-company; Ten Thousand Coffees Thomson Reuters café networking.

Social Impact: Eight employee-driven Business Resource Groups; two paid volunteer days annually; Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives for local and global impact.

Purpose Driven Work: We have a superpower that we’ve never talked about with as much pride as we should – we are one of the only companies on the planet 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.

DISCLAIMER

The above information in this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.

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Accessibility

As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our 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/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.