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Head of Marketing

Thomson Reuters · Mc Lean, VA, USA ·

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Contract

Head of Marketing

Are you passionate about the chance to bring your marketing experience to a world class organization that is leading the way in both content and technology to make a safer and more secure world? Do you have the skills necessary to drive organizational market presence? If you have a strong marketing leadership background and brand ownership skills, then Thomson Reuters Special Services (TRSS) is looking for you!
As the Head of Marketing at TRSS, you will serve as the senior marketing leader responsible for building and driving the full marketing function from brand and demand generation to product marketing, corporate strategy, and growth. This is a uniquely expansive leadership role that sits at the intersection of marketing, product, and business strategy. This role will report directly to the Chief Revenue Officer. You will own the company's market presence end-to-end, leading a team across brand, content, demand generation, product marketing, and customer marketing, while also playing an active role in shaping TRSS's long-term growth strategy through market intelligence, M&A evaluation, and identification of strategic partnerships and expansion opportunities.
Critically, this role serves as the connective tissue between customer needs, product development, technology, and revenue, ensuring that how we build, market, sell, and grow as a company are always grounded in real market and customer intelligence. As a highly visible leader, you will ensure TRSS is positioned for sustainable, scalable growth across Government and Commercial markets, while building and developing a high-performing marketing organization. As the Head of Marketing, you will also contribute to a variety of areas including:
Marketing Leadership & Team Development
Brand Strategy & Market Presence
Demand Generation & Revenue Marketing
Product Positioning & Messaging
Voice of the Customer (VoC) Program
Customer-Centric Strategy & Product-Technology Collaboration
Market Intelligence & Competitive Analysis
Go-to-Market Execution
Sales Enablement & Revenue Collaboration
Strategic Vision & Multi-Year Planning
About You
You are a seasoned marketing executive who combines the strategic sharpness of a growth-oriented business thinker with the hands-on instincts of a builder. You have led marketing organizations before and you know how to develop and inspire a team, manage a budget, and hold the function accountable to business outcomes. But you are equally at home in the details: crafting a compelling product narrative, sitting in a product roadmap session, evaluating a potential acquisition, or presenting a market expansion thesis to the executive team.
You understand that great marketing doesn't happen in isolation

it happens when brand, demand, product marketing, customer intelligence, and revenue strategy are all working from the same playbook. And you are the person who writes it, leads the team that executes it, and measures whether it's working.
You are intellectually curious, data-driven, and deeply motivated by the opportunity to shape the future direction of a company. You are a natural leader and collaborator who builds high-performing teams and strong cross-functional partnerships, operating effectively in a matrixed organization and building bridges rather than silos.
You are a good fit for the role of Head of Marketing if you have/are:
Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business, or a related field.
12+ years in Marketing, with a meaningful portion in senior or executive marketing roles, and strong SaaS experience.
Demonstrated success leading and scaling a full marketing function, including team management, budget ownership, and cross-functional leadership.
Deep expertise in product marketing, with a track record of owning positioning, messaging, and go-to-market strategy for complex B2B or enterprise solutions.
Demonstrated experience contributing to growth strategy initiatives, including M&A evaluation, market entry, or strategic partnerships.
Expertise in demand generation, brand strategy, and integrated marketing program development and measurement.
Expertise in competitive intelligence, market research, and translating insights into executive-level recommendations.
Experience owning or leading a formal Voice of the Customer program or equivalent customer insight function.
Proven track record of managing end-to-end product launches and multi-channel go-to-market campaigns.
Experience working in or with government and/or commercial compliance industries is strongly preferred.
Executive-level communication and storytelling skills, with the ability to influence both internal stakeholders and external audiences.
Proven leader who attracts, develops, and retains top marketing talent and fosters a high-performance team culture.
Strategic thinker who can operate at the 30,000-foot level while also driving ground-level execution.
Proven ability to build trust and credibility with product and technology teams, translating market needs into language that resonates with builders and engineers.
Collaborative executive who builds strong cross-functional partnerships and knows how to operate effectively alongside peer leaders without creating overlap or confusion.
Passionate about technology and motivated to stay ahead of industry, regulatory, and competitive trends.
High degree of intellectual curiosity and business acumen, with the ability to connect market dynamics to business outcomes.
Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. National Security Clearance.
U.S. Citizenship essential to comply with government contract/agency or department of Federal Government requirements.
What's in it For You?
Hybrid Work Model
Flexibility & Work-Life Balance
Career Development and Growth
Industry Competitive Benefits
Culture
Social Impact
Making a Real-World Impact
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: New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and/or Irvine, CA; McLean, VA; Washington, DC. The base compensation range for the role in any of those locations is $158,100 USD - $293,500 USD. 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. This role may also be eligible for an Annual Bonus based on a combination of enterprise and individual performance.
About Us
Thomson Reuters informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions. We serve professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media. Our products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data, intelligence, and solutions needed to make informed decisions, and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice, truth, and transparency. Reuters, part of Thomson Reuters, is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news.
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. 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.
As a global business, we rely on the unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences of all employees to deliver on our business goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of