Job Description

As Compensation Director, Product and Engineering, reporting to the Vice President, Compensation, you will lead compensation strategy and advisory work for our global Product and Product Engineering teams, including our AI-focused Catalyst group and TR Labs. You will partner closely with senior technical and product leaders across multiple locations, oversee key compensation processes (including the Annual Compensation Process), help evolve pay range structures for technical talent, and provide expertise on market positioning for high-demand engineering and AI skill sets — all while collaborating with global compensation peers and the Design & Analytics team to deliver insight-driven solutions.

Key Responsibilities

Lead compensation strategy and advice for Product and Engineering: Provide guidance, recommendations, and analysis to HR and technical leaders across global Product, and for Product Engineering including our Catalyst and TR Labs teams, balancing market practice with internal principles.

Own and deliver the Annual Compensation Process (ACP) for your businesses: Work in conjunction with globally distributed peers to oversee pre-review data readiness, plan set-up and validation, and enable leaders and HR teams through communications, training, and in-process support.

Develop and maintain pay structures for technical talent: Partner with the VP, Compensation, our expert Analyst team, and global peers to analyse market movement and evolve pay ranges, levelling frameworks, and premium pay strategies for engineering, product management, and AI-specialist roles.

Govern compensation change activity in Workday: Review, challenge, and approve compensation-related requests; collaborate with HR Digital to improve Workday functionality and strengthen BAU and annual process delivery.

Act as a global reward partner and framework owner: Support the Product and Engineering business, contribute to global compensation initiatives, and own assigned job families within the Global Role Framework, including technical, product, and AI-specialist job families.

Drive insight, compliance, and change: Partner with the Analysts to specify models and reporting; monitor the fast-evolving external market for AI and engineering talent; advise on evolving pay-related regulations and policy; and provide compensation expertise for M&A transition and integration activities affecting your businesses.

Required Qualifications

Extensive compensation experience with a technical focus: Typically 10+ years in compensation/reward roles, including in-depth experience structuring compensation for product management, software engineering, and AI-focused technical teams. Good working knowledge of equity plans is an advantage. Bachelor's degree (or equivalent experience).

Sector relevance: Experience in SaaS or a similar technology environment is essential, with a particular focus on AI engineering and product management compensation, including retention and premium-pay strategies for scarce AI skill sets.

Strong technical capability: Demonstrated strong quantitative skills and advanced Excel capability, ideally actively engaged in the use of AI tolls to support compensation work, with the ability to translate data into clear, practical and creative recommendations for technical leaders.

US regulatory expertise: Proven experience managing compensation within US legal and regulatory frameworks, with confidence advising on policy and compliance considerations.

Effective global partnering: Comfortable operating with significant autonomy in a hybrid environment and collaborating with colleagues across multiple global locations and time zones; demonstrated engagement with business strategy to inform compensation management.

Clear communication and stakeholder management: Skilled at listening, influencing, and explaining complex compensation topics to senior technical and product leaders.

Continuous improvement mindset: Track record of simplifying, automating, and streamlining compensation processes; experience developing and delivering AI-enabled solutions is a distinct advantage.

Preferred Qualifications

What’s in it For You?

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.
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.

Eligible office location(s) for this role include one or more of the following: New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and/or Irvine, CA; McLean, VA; Washington, DC. The base compensation range for the role in any of those locations is $158,100 USD - $293,500 USD.

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

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.

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