Vice President, Talent Acquisition - Product Engineering
Job Description
The Vice President, Talent Acquisition - Product Engineering will lead the recruiting organization supporting Product Engineering and build a specialized capability focused on the AI, engineering, research, and other highly competitive technical talent critical to Thomson Reuters’ growth.
This leader will bring together the Product Engineering recruiting team with additional Principal Technical Recruiters, evolving the organization toward a more strategic, search-oriented model grounded in deep technical recruiting expertise, talent intelligence, market mapping, proactive sourcing, and exceptional candidate engagement.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and lead the Talent Acquisition strategy for Product Engineering, aligning recruiting priorities, capacity, and capabilities with workforce plans and business priorities.
- Lead, develop, and inspire the Product Engineering recruiting organization, including a team of highly experienced Principal Technical Recruiters.
- Build a differentiated, search-oriented approach for attracting scarce AI, engineering, research, and other highly specialized technical talent.
- Serve as a strategic talent advisor to Product Engineering leadership, bringing external market intelligence, talent availability, competitive insights, location considerations, and hiring recommendations.
- Create an agile recruiting model that allows resources to shift across Product Engineering priorities as business needs and hiring demand evolve.
- Partner across Product Engineering, HR, Total Rewards, regional Talent Acquisition, and TA Innovation to continually improve hiring strategy, assessment, technology, and candidate experience.
- Leverage recruiting technology, AI, analytics, and talent intelligence to increase recruiter effectiveness and improve hiring outcomes.
- Establish and monitor measures of success, including hiring velocity, pipeline quality, conversion, offer acceptance, candidate experience, hiring manager satisfaction, recruiter productivity, and quality of hire.
Required Qualifications
- 10+ years of progressive Talent Acquisition experience, including significant experience leading technical, engineering, or other highly specialized recruiting.
- Demonstrated success leading, building, scaling, or transforming recruiting teams in complex and competitive talent environments.
- Deep understanding of recruiting specialized technology talent, including areas such as AI, machine learning, software engineering, research, architecture, cloud, or data.
- Experience leading and developing experienced recruiters and building high-performing teams.
- Demonstrated ability to advise senior executives on talent strategy, external talent markets, recruiting capacity, workforce needs, and hiring risks.
- Strong expertise in direct sourcing, talent mapping, passive candidate engagement, market intelligence, assessment, and closing, with the ability to bring a search-oriented approach to in-house recruiting.
- Strong analytical capability and experience using recruiting metrics and external talent-market insights to influence decisions and improve outcomes.
- Executive-level communication, influence, judgment, and change leadership in a complex, global organization.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience recruiting within technology, SaaS, AI, product engineering, or another highly competitive technical talent environment.
- Experience developing specialized sourcing, talent intelligence, or search capabilities within an in-house Talent Acquisition organization.
- Experience supporting globally distributed engineering organizations and recruiting across multiple geographies.
- Experience developing workforce segmentation, talent mapping, or location strategies.
- Experience leveraging modern recruiting technology and AI-enabled recruiting tools to improve recruiter productivity and hiring outcomes.
- Experience strengthening structured technical assessment, interviewing, or candidate evaluation practices.
Location: this is a hybrid role, ideally based in one of our hub locations: New York, NY; Dallas, TX; Minneapolis, MN; Ann Arbor, MI or Toronto, Canada. We will also consider a remote arrangement for the right candidate.
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New Position: This position is open due to an existing vacancy to support our evolving business needs.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.
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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