Senior Director, Applied Research
Refinitiv, New York, NY, United States
# **Our Privacy Statement & Cookie Policy****About the role** is seeking an experienced scientist with strong product mindset to lead a high-performing team developing transformative solutions for tax, audit, and accounting professionals.
Our team is designing the next generation of agentic AI for tax & accounting professionals around the globe. This is an opportunity to create entirely new workflows addressing fundamental challenges in the industry. TR has all the ingredients from annotated tax law to robust tax engines and end-to-end solutions for data management, filing, audit, and compliance. Come join the R&D team for Thomson Reuters’ portfolio of tax products, including , , and . **About You**You hold a PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a closely related field or a Master's with equivalent depth, a strong science background, and a relevant publication record. You bring 10+ years of hands-on industry experience building AI/ML systems for commercial applications, with recent direct experience developing LLM-based and agentic systems in production. You have 5+ years leading and developing high-performing applied science or ML teams.**What You'll Do*** Lead and develop a high-performing applied science team working on agentic AI for tax and accounting professionals* Drive the design and delivery of AI features that meaningfully reimagine customer workflows in high-stakes, accuracy-critical settings* Serve as a strategic thought partner to Labs leadership, product leadership, and key business stakeholders on long-term AI strategy, partnerships, and capability roadmap* Influence product strategy through deep technical knowledge combined with insight from usage data, quality metrics, and customer feedback* Continuously improve ways of working across R&D and product engineering in a fast-paced, tightly embedded delivery cycle* Engage domain and subject matter experts in concept development and design workshops* Foster a team culture of innovation, rigour, collaboration, and continuous learning**Required Qualifications*** PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field or Master's with a strong science background and relevant publication record — required* 10+ years of hands-on industry experience building AI/ML systems for commercial applications — not research-only experience* Recent, direct hands-on experience developing LLM-based and agentic AI systems for production, non-trivial use cases* 5+ years of experience managing and developing high-performing applied science or ML teams* Demonstrated success in product- or customer-facing roles, with business and customer impact as the primary measure of success* Technical depth in AI/ML sufficient to provide effective challenge, expand on team ideas, and support high-quality technical decision-making**Preferred Qualifications*** Technical depth in information retrieval and NLP, with experience in complex vertical domains — taxonomy induction, document understanding, agentic search, knowledge graphs, or neuro-symbolic approaches* Experience with AI agent evaluation, language model training with verifiable rewards, and synthetic data generation* Publications at ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, NeurIPS, ICLR, SIGIR, KDD, or equivalent* Experience building AI solutions for tax, legal, audit, or accounting domains* Track record of growth at top-tier technology companies or high-growth startups#LI-LP2**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.**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.**Future-ready careers**Our focus on a skills-first approach ensures you’ll have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future. #J-18808-Ljbffr
Our team is designing the next generation of agentic AI for tax & accounting professionals around the globe. This is an opportunity to create entirely new workflows addressing fundamental challenges in the industry. TR has all the ingredients from annotated tax law to robust tax engines and end-to-end solutions for data management, filing, audit, and compliance. Come join the R&D team for Thomson Reuters’ portfolio of tax products, including , , and . **About You**You hold a PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a closely related field or a Master's with equivalent depth, a strong science background, and a relevant publication record. You bring 10+ years of hands-on industry experience building AI/ML systems for commercial applications, with recent direct experience developing LLM-based and agentic systems in production. You have 5+ years leading and developing high-performing applied science or ML teams.**What You'll Do*** Lead and develop a high-performing applied science team working on agentic AI for tax and accounting professionals* Drive the design and delivery of AI features that meaningfully reimagine customer workflows in high-stakes, accuracy-critical settings* Serve as a strategic thought partner to Labs leadership, product leadership, and key business stakeholders on long-term AI strategy, partnerships, and capability roadmap* Influence product strategy through deep technical knowledge combined with insight from usage data, quality metrics, and customer feedback* Continuously improve ways of working across R&D and product engineering in a fast-paced, tightly embedded delivery cycle* Engage domain and subject matter experts in concept development and design workshops* Foster a team culture of innovation, rigour, collaboration, and continuous learning**Required Qualifications*** PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field or Master's with a strong science background and relevant publication record — required* 10+ years of hands-on industry experience building AI/ML systems for commercial applications — not research-only experience* Recent, direct hands-on experience developing LLM-based and agentic AI systems for production, non-trivial use cases* 5+ years of experience managing and developing high-performing applied science or ML teams* Demonstrated success in product- or customer-facing roles, with business and customer impact as the primary measure of success* Technical depth in AI/ML sufficient to provide effective challenge, expand on team ideas, and support high-quality technical decision-making**Preferred Qualifications*** Technical depth in information retrieval and NLP, with experience in complex vertical domains — taxonomy induction, document understanding, agentic search, knowledge graphs, or neuro-symbolic approaches* Experience with AI agent evaluation, language model training with verifiable rewards, and synthetic data generation* Publications at ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, NeurIPS, ICLR, SIGIR, KDD, or equivalent* Experience building AI solutions for tax, legal, audit, or accounting domains* Track record of growth at top-tier technology companies or high-growth startups#LI-LP2**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.**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.**Future-ready careers**Our focus on a skills-first approach ensures you’ll have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future. #J-18808-Ljbffr