The Manager, International AI Engineering leads a team of multi-lingual technical experts in successfully executing technology projects and solutions that align with the strategy and have broad business impact across the globe. The Manager will work closely with the international CoCounsel development teams to identify and understand key features and their underlying functionality while also partnering closely with Product Management and UX Design. They may exercise influence and govern overall end-to-end software development life cycle related activities including management of support and maintenance releases, minor functional releases, and major projects. The Manager will lead & provide technical and professional guidance for process improvement programs while leveraging engineering best practices. In this people leadership role, Managers will recruit, train, motivate, coach, grow and develop team members at a variety of levels through their technical expertise and providing continuous feedback to ensure employee expectations, customer needs and product demands are met.

About the Role:

• Manages hiring, performance management, and training for an international team of AI experts.
• Manage and provide technical support to technical engineering team across multiple multi-lingual initiatives
• Develop new approaches to solve somewhat ambiguous problems identified across the software development and translation lifecycle.
• May manage budget for projects, programs or products within area

Sphere of Influence

• Leads multiple cross-functional - project teams
• Balanced strategic and tactical focus
• Excellent cross-functional influencer
• Ensures engineering teams are effectively executing efficiently, effectively addressing issues that arise.
• Provide the team with thought leadership to promote re-use and develop consistent, scalable patterns.
• Provide suggestions for handling routine and moderately complex technical problems, escalating issues when appropriate.
• Frequently interacts with supervisors and/or functional peer group managers. May interact with senior management.

Delivery

• Evaluates new technologies and participates in decision-making, accounting for several factors 
• Applies 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.  
• Manages building enhancements within an existing software architecture and occasionally suggest improvements to the architecture. 
• Provides suggestions for handling routine and moderately complex technical problems, escalating issues when appropriate. 
• Uses technology acumen to apply and maintain knowledge of current and emerging technologies within specialized area(s) of the technology domain
• Leads or sets strategy for testing and debugging at the platform or enterprise level. 
• In complex and unstructured situations, serves as an expert resource to create and improve standards and best practices to ensure high-performance, scalable, repeatable, and secure deliverables. 
• Leads the design, lifecycle management, and total cost of ownership of services.
• Comfortable talking about and learning about every part of the infrastructure/technology stack to find optimizations and efficiency
• Demonstrates strong domain-specific knowledge regarding technology capabilities of our products 
• Communicates and coordinates with project team, partners, and stakeholders
• Stays current with new and evolving technologies via formal training and self-directed education
• May help in the procurement of services/solutions for the project.
• Accountable for the successful execution of technology projects including support and maintenance releases, minor functional releases and major products.

Business Acumen 

• Displays understanding of the project's value proposition for the customer.
• Applies critical, non-biased and data-based thinking to help make core directional decisions that move toward the forecasted future
• Ranks 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  
• Ability to withstand adversity, bounce back from difficulty, and move into exploring new possibilities
• Uses technology acumen to apply and maintain knowledge of current and emerging technologies within specialized area(s) of the technology domain 
• In complex and unstructured situations, serve as an expert resource to create and improve standards and best practices to ensure high-performance, scalable, repeatable, and secure deliverables.  
• Establishes and maintains strong working relationships with key partners, stakeholders and customers to ensure timely and accurate information flow and identification of issues.
• Demonstrates strong domain-specific knowledge regarding key competitors’ products and differentiating features 

Leadership 

• Influences and articulates a vision for their customers and product(s)
• Socializes and aligns a wide variety of cross-functional stakeholders to strategy, vision, and roadmap 
• Leads through influence to drive results across multiple, cross-functional teams 
• Addresses objections and concerns effectively and independently 
• Seeks to gain and understand differing perspectives; commits to decisions once made
• Continuously looks for opportunities to improve business or process 
• Communicates and presents effectively to a wide variety of stakeholders across the organization
• Outstanding organizational and communication skills (oral, written and interpersonal) including the ability to communicate technical concepts to a non-technical audience
• Learns and adapts, bounces back quickly from setbacks.
• Lead the design, lifecycle management, and total cost of ownership of services. 
• Provide the team with thought leadership to promote re-use and develop consistent, scalable patterns. 
• Provide suggestions for handling routine and moderately complex technical problems, escalating issues when appropriate. 
• Frequently interacts with supervisors and/or functional peer group managers. May interact with senior management.
• Implements a customer-aware culture for their team, ensuring close working relationships with Product, Project Management, Technical Operations etc.
• Accountable for technical delivery across multiple projects/products by providing guidance and support to project leads to assist in removing project impediments.

People Management 

• Demonstrates people leadership skills, typically for tactical or more junior level teams
• Ensures team delivers on expectations, communicating clear goals that support the delivery of impactful work against team OKR’s
• Set goals around talent development and diversity and inclusion and demonstrates progress 
• Identifies development areas and provides timely feedback and coaching to direct reports; effectively addresses under-performance observing mindsets and behaviors of model, coach and care
• Attracts and develops great talent, while setting a high bar and elevating existing team 
• Provide guidance and direction; ensures team is focused on the most important priorities 
• Positively resolves issues among team members
• Ensures training and learning of team members.
• Facilitate positive change by helping others improve their thinking and take action
• Build a global, hybrid, high-performing team, focusing on individual development to ensure professional and organizational success
• Displays care by supporting others in the pursuit of wellbeing
• Understand, appreciate differences and recognize how those differences drive engagement and innovation
• Ability to motivate teams, delegate effectively, celebrate diversity within the team, and manage performance, lead with openness and trust
• Leads and manages the day-to-day activities of their team including supporting career development of team (objective setting, performance management, etc.
• Creates an environment of trust and credibility within the team and works with them to identify issues and risks that may impact their growth and progress

About You:

• JD or equivalent from US accredited law school
• Licensed and in good standing in at least 1 U.S. jurisdiction
• Prior education and experience in one or more foreign languages, linguistics, and/or translation
• Substantial experience working in the European, South American, and Asian legal markets, ideally with direct practice experience and/or linguistic capabilities serving those markets
• Experience developing legal AI products, particularly to ensure quality, reliability, and accuracy
• Experience and track record of managing and building high performance teams
• Experience managing a team across multiple time zones with cross-collaborative stakeholders
• Minimum 5 years' experience practicing law; mix of both litigation and transactional work preferred.

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What's in it For You?
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• 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

• Wellbeing: Comprehensive benefit plans; flexible and supportive benefits for work-life balance: flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days Off; work from another location for up to a total of 8 weeks in a year, 4 of those weeks can be out of the country and the remaining in the country, Headspace app subscription; retirement, savings, tuition reimbursement, and employee incentive programs; resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.

• Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.

• Learning & Development: LinkedIn Learning access; internal Talent Marketplace with opportunities to work on projects cross-company; Ten Thousand Coffees Thomson Reuters café networking.

• Social Impact: Ten employee-driven Business Resource Groups; two paid volunteer days annually; Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives for local and global impact.

• Purpose Driven Work: We have a superpower that we’ve never talked about with as much pride as we should – we are one of the only companies on the planet 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: Eagan, MN; Ann Arbor, MI; Richmond, VA; Rochester, NY. The base compensation range for the role in any of those locations is $114,400 - $212,400. 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.

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