Associate Product Manager

Associate Product Manager at Thomson Reuters

This position is open due to an existing vacancy to support our evolving business needs. The Associate Product Manager is a passionate learner and self-starter aspiring to be a Product Manager. They are creative problem-solvers who show foundational skills with the ability to assess customer problems, business needs, opportunities and offer solutions to support the PM team. This role requires energy to thrive in a highly dynamic and fast-paced environment and understanding that it is both a learning and 'doing' role. A person in this job is expected to grow quickly, build skills to further their impact and drive end-to-end product management with the support and mentorship of more senior Product Managers and Leaders.

Note: We are only looking for candidates with a Law Degree who are passionate to start their career in Product Management.

About The Role

As an Associate Product Manager, you will:

• Develop strong product intuition by interpreting and assessing customer problems, business needs and opportunities and offering potential solutions with a moderate level of guidance and direction.
• Build world class capabilities and products by serving as the customer voice for the engineering teams, prioritizing the product backlog based on customer and business value, and using metrics to monitor and measure progress.
• Understand the customer by directing customer research to validate, prioritize, and hone new product concepts.
• Conduct or participate in market and competitive analysis to drive the creation and positioning of propositions, products, or services.
• Support commercial-facing teams in client engagement and retention activities.
• Demonstrate leadership by taking ownership for a feature/product, its performance and reliability, and delighting our clients with a positive experience.
• Show that you can learn from your experiences, recover from setbacks, and effectively evangelize the product vision to colleagues.

In order to be successful in achieving these goals, you will be:

• Curious & Innovative, starting with an obsession for our customers’ problems and needs and then working closely with customers, partners, and other Thomson Reuters colleagues to solve them in unique ways.
• Agile with a strong sense of urgency and a desire to work in a fast-paced dynamic environment to deliver solutions against strict timelines; unafraid of failure.
• An effective communicator who projects confidence and communicates concisely and clearly to management, peers, customers and partners.

About You

You’re a fit for the role, if you have:

Foundational Skills

Successful Associate Product Manager (APM) candidates will exhibit and show the aspiration to further develop the following skills:

• Problem Solving
• Leadership
• Technical Design Thinking
• Cross functional collaboration
• Communication
• Effective Execution

Qualifications

• Law Degree

What’s in it For You?

• 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.
• Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year.
• Career Development and Growth: Through our Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach, we foster continuous learning and skill development.
• Industry Competitive Benefits: Comprehensive benefit plans include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, Headspace app access, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, and wellbeing resources.
• Culture: Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, and work-life balance. We live by our values: Obsess over our Customers, Compete to Win, Challenge (Y)our Thinking, Act Fast / Learn Fast, and Stronger Together.
• Social Impact: Make an impact with our Social Impact Institute, offering two paid volunteer days off annually and pro-bono consulting opportunities.
• Making a Real-World Impact: We help customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency by upholding the rule of law and providing trusted information.

Our use of AI within the recruitment process: Thomson Reuters utilizes Artificial Intelligence (AI) to support parts of our global recruitment process. Our AI system assesses your information against role requirements and presents results to recruitment personnel for human review.

Thomson Reuters complies with local laws that require upfront disclosure of the expected pay range for a position. For Ontario, Canada, the base compensation range for this role is $70,000 CAD - $120,000 CAD. 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. 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 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 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 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. More information on requesting an accommodation here.

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Key skills/competency

• Product Management
• Customer Research
• Market Analysis
• Agile Methodology
• Problem Solving
• Leadership
• Technical Design Thinking
• Cross-functional Collaboration
• Communication Skills
• Product Ownership