Job Description
The Director, Product Management leads a team of Product Managers on the development professional information solutions including Westlaw Japan. Key to this role will be working across teams to effectively bring Westlaw Japan into the operating culture at Thomson Reuters, ensuring effective development of Westlaw based on the Japanese legal system.
Responsibilities
As the Director, Product Management, you will:
- Lead Westlaw Japan product team to define and deliver Westlaw growth in Japan
- Develop and lead the product vision, strategy and roadmap to establish innovative, industry-leading and globally-adopted products ensuring the customer voice and Japanese localization is embedded in the approach and execution
- Evangelize products through customer conversations at the C-level as well as on stage at industry conferences and events
- Manage the entire product lifecycle, from strategic planning to tactical activities
- Collaborate with TR global teams to ensure global product alignment is maintained and opportunities are maximized
- Drive a solution across development teams (primarily Development/Engineering and Marketing Communications) through market requirements and product positioning
- Leads product research and design testing in partnership with UX to help identify iterative improvements in the product, especially based on accelerated and long-term growth
Qualifications
As the Director, Product Management, you should ideally possess:
- Minimum 7 years of experience in a product management role within an information and technology company
- Experience leveraging AI technologies (such as ChatGPT, Claude, Bard, or Bing) in a product management context (for ideation, strategy formulation, etc.)
- Bachelor (or higher) degree in Law, Commerce, Finance, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field of study or equivalent professional experience
- Native Japanese speaker; fluent in (business) English
- Exceptional research skills including knowledge of online search languages and methods
- In depth experience and understanding of Japanese legal research including online platforms is highly desirable
About the Company
Thomson Reuters is the world’s leading provider of news and information-based tools to professionals. Our worldwide network of journalists and specialist editors keep customers up to speed on global developments, with a particular focus on legal, regulatory and tax changes.
Our customers operate in complex arenas that move society forward — tax, law, compliance, government, media. In a disruptive digital age, we help professionals reinvent themselves.
What's in it For You?
You will join our inclusive culture of world-class talent, where we are committed to your personal and professional growth through:
- 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.
Do you want to be part of a team helping re-invent the way knowledge professionals work? How about a team that works every day to create a more transparent, just and inclusive future? At Thomson Reuters, we’ve been doing just that for almost 160 years. Our industry-leading products and services include highly specialized information-enabled software and tools for legal, tax, accounting and compliance professionals combined with the world’s most global news services – Reuters. We help these professionals do their jobs better, creating more time for them to focus on the things that matter most: advising, advocating, negotiating, governing and informing.
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 that celebrate diversity and inclusion. 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.
Accessibility
As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our 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/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.
We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.