Job Description
Are you excited about working at the forefront of applied research in an industry setting? Thomson Reuters Labs is seeking a Director of Applied Research with a passion forproduct developmentand thedesire to build high-value, state-of-the-artinformation systems for legal professionals.
What does Thomson Reuters Labs do? We experiment, we build, we deliver. We support the organization and our customers through applied research in informational retrieval and natural language processing. We work closely with product and domain experts to identify compelling solutions at the intersection of user need and technical feasibility. Our team is designing next generation search technology for Legal and Tax Professionals globally. We drive AI innovation for Thomson Reuters’ core research products, including Westlaw, Practical Law, and Checkpoint.
About the Role
This leadership role has significant scope to influence product strategy and design the next generation of AI capabilities for Thomson Reuters’ flagship legal research products. In this role, you will:
About You The ideal candidate will have a strong background in AI/ML, substantial experience building NLP applications for commercial products, demonstrated success leading high-performing teams, and the soft skills to bridge technical and business perspectives. Minimum qualifications
PhD in a relevant discipline or Master’s plus comparable experience
10+ years hands-on building IR / NLP systems for commercial applications
5+ years of management experience – coaching & developing high-performing teams
Experience designing and implementing solutions with large language models
Experience innovating state-of-the-art research to solve applied, real-world problems.
Outstanding communication and analytical skills
Preferred qualifications
Experience building solutions for legal research (case law retrieval, citation analysis, document review or drafting, e.g.)
Experience designing taxonomies or knowledge graphs for complex domains.
Relevant publications at ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, NeurIPS, ICLR, SIGIR, KDD, or similar.
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What’s in it For You?
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.
For any eligible US locations, unless otherwise noted, the base compensation range for this role is $203,000 - $377,000.
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.
This job posting will close 05/24/2025.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.
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Thomson Reuters is a multinational media and information firm that delivers critical information from the financial, legal, risk, accounting, intellectual property, science, and media markets. The company sells electronic content and services to professionals primarily on a subscription basis. Its financial and risk segment offers news, information, and analytics, as well as enabling transactions that bring together communities to allow trading, investing, financial, and corporate professionals to connect. This segment also provides regulatory and operational risk management solutions. The legal segment offers critical online and prints information, decision tools, and software and services to support legal, investigation, business, and government professionals. This segment’s products and services include legal research solutions; know-how solutions; software-based workflow solutions; compliance solutions; marketing, finance, and operations software; litigation support tools; and business development and legal process outsourcing services. The tax and accounting segment provides integrated tax compliance and accounting information, software, and services for professionals in accounting firms, corporations, law firms, and the government. The intellectual property and science segment offers intellectual property and scientific information, and decision support tools and services that enable governments, academia, publishers, corporations, and law firms to discover, protect, and commercialize new ideas and brands. Thomson Reuters also operates Reuters, which provides real-time multimedia news and information services to newspapers, television and cable networks, radio stations, and websites.
