Lead Product Engineer, AI Ventures

About the Role

As a Lead Product Engineer, AI Ventures, you will own the design direction for early-stage AI product opportunities within Thomson Reuters’ AI Ventures incubation team.

You will use user research, rapid prototyping, experimentation, and strong product judgment to validate ideas and reduce product uncertainty. Working closely with Product and Engineering, you will turn ambiguous customer and workflow problems into clear, testable concepts and help determine which opportunities should progress toward production.

You will:

• Lead product discovery and concept validation through user research, rapid prototyping, and business context.
• Turn ambiguous customer problems and workflows into clear, testable product concepts.
• Rapidly prototype different product directions to evaluate workflow, product value, and user experience.
• Use evidence from users, Product, and Engineering to recommend whether ideas should be built, changed, paused, or stopped.
• Own the end-to-end product experience, including workflows, screens, key states, and interaction details.
• Design AI-powered professional experiences that go beyond simple chat interfaces and static screens.
• Help users understand AI-generated outputs, their limitations, and the choices available to them.
• Create reusable patterns for AI-assisted workflows with an emphasis on transparency, accessibility, user control, and trust.
• Partner closely with Product and Engineering from discovery through delivery.
• Translate prototypes into feasible product direction and remain involved as successful concepts move toward production.
• Help establish a high bar for product and experience quality across early AI Ventures products.
• Balance rapid experimentation with enterprise expectations around quality, accessibility, trust, and compliance.

About You

You are an experienced product-focused professional who enjoys working in 0→1, incubation, venture, startup, or early-stage product environments. You are comfortable working with ambiguity, speaking directly with users, testing ideas quickly, and turning insights into clear product recommendations.

You bring:

• Significant experience designing digital products, ideally including new products or early-stage concepts.
• A strong portfolio or work examples demonstrating product thinking, interaction design, visual design quality, and shipped product experiences.
• Experience designing AI-powered products, complex decision-support tools, or professional workflow products.
• Strong experience with user discovery, customer conversations, rapid prototyping, and concept testing.
• Ability to move quickly from an idea to a testable prototype using modern design and prototyping tools, including AI-assisted tools where appropriate.
• Experience partnering closely with Product Managers, Engineers, and senior stakeholders.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to clearly explain design rationale, customer insights, and product evidence.
• Experience working in enterprise or regulated environments where accessibility, trust, transparency, or compliance are important.
• A strong customer mindset and the ability to design experiences that help professional users understand, trust, and confidently use AI-powered products.

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This posting is for proactive recruitment purposes and may be used to fill current openings or future vacancies within our organization.

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.
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