Product Manager - News Production, Reuters

We envisage the successful candidate being based in Toronto, Canada. Applications from other global locations such as London will also be considered.

Do you want to use your Product Management experience to its full potential? Want to develop automated tools that will allow Reuters to deliver leading content across the globe? If so, this position as Product Manager - News Production at Reuters might be for you.

We're looking for a Product Manager to join our Content Production team and will shape our content production tools, with a range of automation procedures and product enhancements. As part of this global team, you'll help shape the rapidly evolving and strategic technology initiatives behind the world's most trusted news organization, Reuters News. As a Product Manager in our Content Production team, you'll ensure expanded coverage for our clients - at speed.

This is a great opportunity for someone looking to utilize their stakeholder management and analytical skills within the realm of news technology products by working on BAU initiatives within an existing product.

About The Role

As Product Manager - News Production at Reuters, you will:

• Produce a vision for specific tools within our wider news product offering. You'll collaborate with a range of internal stakeholders (such as Development, QA, DevOps and Project Management) and will drive strategic initiatives to achieve your products' aims.
• Develop a detailed understanding of our newsroom's user workflows whilst working closely with internal stakeholders to identify development items for the product roadmap, considering our strategic direction and inbound customer requests.
• Define features that clearly communicate customer and stakeholder needs. You'll own and maintain user stories and requirements that will drive the development of our news production tools and will work with the technical teams to help plan and define sprints to deliver the prioritized requirements.
• Collect, analyze, and synthesize data to support the product's requirements. You'll translate this into detailed technology needs, formal specifications, KPIs and technical solutions as required and will assist in the creation of business cases as required for any major Capex initiatives.
• Prioritize features and ensure on-time, in-scope delivery of the agreed road map. You'll also provide ongoing analyses and scheduling of defect fixes within the product.
  
  
  

About You

You're a fit for the role of Product Manager - News Production if you have:

• Demonstrable experience of either working in a product management or business analytics setting.
• A great understanding and experience in applying technology to product development. Ideally, you'll have a strong understanding of launching software and experience of managing a full release cycle from product requirements through to product delivery.
• The ability to quickly learn new content subject areas and apply technology solutions to them.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, and ability to deconstruct activities into manageable tasks, whilst working on multiple projects and priorities
• Proficiency in writing and testing functional and non-functional software requirements.
• Data analytics enthusiast with proven track record of using analytics tools to drive the direction of the product.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with competency in stakeholder management.
  
  
  

Please Note: Completed applications must be submitted by Sunday 7th March 2025. Early applications are encouraged.

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:

• Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more
• Social Impact: Eight employee-driven Business Resource Groups; Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives for local and global impact
• Purpose-Driven Work: We have a superpower 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.

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