Engineering Manager, (AI) Materia

Engineering Manager, Materia

We are looking for a Engineering Manager (AI)to join our team. This individual will manage and provide technical support to technical engineering team across multiple initiatives and develop new approaches to solve somewhat ambiguous problems identified across the software development lifecycle. This role also may manage budget for projects, programs or products within the practice.

About the Role:
In this opportunity as a Engineering Manager(AI), you will:

• Develop and execute a long-term technology strategy aligned with the organization's goals, preparing the team for scalable growth.
• Lead the adoption of advanced engineering practices and processes to foster innovation and efficiency across product development teams.
• Mentor and develop team members with a focus on building a pipeline of future leaders and preparing the team for organizational scaling.
• Facilitate strategic partnerships with cross-functional leaders to ensure technology solutions meet broader business objectives.
• Drive the technical roadmap, prioritizing initiatives that enhance product value and customer satisfaction while also managing technical debt effectively
• Propose accurate estimations for project timelines and resource requirements.
• Hiring and manage a team of skilled software developers.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure smooth project execution.
• Effectively delegate tasks and responsibilities within the engineering team.

Other responsibilities include:

Leadership:

• Influencing and articulates a vision for their customers and product(s)
• Socializing and aligns a wide variety of cross-functional stakeholders to strategy, vision, and roadmap 
• Leading through influence to drive results across multiple, cross-functional teams

People Management:

• Demonstrating people leadership skills, typically for tactical or more junior level teams
• Ensuring team delivers on expectations, communicating clear goals that support the delivery of impactful work against team OKR’s
• Setting goals around talent development and diversity and inclusion and demonstrates progress

Sphere of Influence:

• Leading multiple cross-functional - project teams
• Balanced strategic and tactical focus
• Excellent cross-functional influencer

Delivery:

• Evaluating new technologies and participates in decision-making, accounting for several factors 
• Applying knowledge of software architecture to manage software development tasks associated with developing, debugging or designing software applications, operating systems and databases according to provided design specifications.  
• Managing building enhancements within an existing software architecture and occasionally suggest improvements to the architecture. 

Business Acumen:

• Displaying understanding of the project's value proposition for the customer.
• Applying critical, non-biased and data-based thinking to help make core directional decisions that move toward the forecasted future
• Ranking the importance of initiatives to achieve team and business objectives, recognizing not all work is equally “important” and “urgent”, and that some work will fall to a backlog for future prioritization  

About You:
You're a fit for the role of Engineering Manager(AI), if your background includes:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 8+ years of experience in software development
• 3+ years in a people leadership & product development leadership role.
• Ability to elaborate on/demonstrate experience bringing in transformations within process improvement and team development.
• Ability to identify and implement new technologies to improve upon product.
• Experience preforming software development with Python development stack.
• Experience preforming software development AWS cloud development stack.
• Experience with an Agile development process is required.
• Experience preforming software development with one of the following frontend technologies is preferred but not required: React / Typescript / Tailwind.
• Exceptional leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills to foster an environment of collaboration and innovation.
• Demonstrated experience in strategic planning, organizational development, and team scaling.

#LI-SM2

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.

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.

For any eligible US locations, unless otherwise noted, the base compensation range for this role is $88,200 - $163,800.

This role may also be eligible for an Annual Bonus based on a combination of enterprise and individual performance.
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.


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.

We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law. More information on requesting an accommodation here.

Learn more on how to protect yourself from fraudulent job postings here.

More information about Thomson Reuters can be found on thomsonreuters.com.