Director UX Design, Thomson Reuters
Reuters
2-3 days a week in office (5 Canada Square, LDN)
Financial news and financial data provider
Job no longer available
Financial news and financial data provider
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
2-3 days a week in office (5 Canada Square, LDN)
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help professionals advance their businesses and gain competitive advantage with the trusted answers only we can provide.
Role
Who you are
- We are looking for a curious and versatile design leader who is eager to play a pivotal role in shaping the future of content experiences and delivering moments of delight to our customers
- Extensive experience in consumer and B2B product design, with demonstrable design leadership/management experience, ideally on a global scale
- The ability to empower your teams to deliver on expectation and grow the overall team performance. You’ll ensure your team develop as professionals and will foster a culture of inclusion and belonging
- A robust portfolio of previous product design work that illustrates some hands-on work but mostly work performed through your teams. Portfolio showcases a proven track record of solving complex design problems with design led thinking that exhibits a clean, polished design aesthetic coupled with a passion for pixel perfection, consistency, and usability
- Demonstrated success navigating complex organizations and ability to be persuasive/influential with a wide range of diverse audiences
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and experience interacting with high level stakeholders. You’ll be comfortable presenting and recommending trade-offs, communicating changes in delivery expectations and make key decisions around budget and resourcing
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in UX/HCI or related field, or significant equivalent experience
What the job involves
- Reuters is seeking a visionary Design Director to lead our User Experience Design and Research team
- This dynamic role involves spearheading the design of consumer products, an online B2B marketplace, a cloud native media content distribution platform, and content production tools for our global newsroom
- Lead design teams and UX research across Reuters. We’re looking for a leader that’s committed to building a world-class design team supporting Reuters’ mission. You’ll demonstrate a customer obsessed approach to continually create impact on our products
- Create and articulate a compelling UX vision for customers across our business. You’ll be a strategic thinker and storyteller who can align a wide variety of cross-functional stakeholders to deliver your creative vision and drive results
- Define success criteria for each product area and inspire the team. You’ll look for insights both inside and outside the organization, serving as a credible and important voice with customers and in their market
- Ensure the customer voice and product vision is embedded across teams, and work is prioritized, and trade-offs are made based on customer and business value
- Remove roadblocks as needed and guide the team through ambiguity, ensuring decisions are grounded in data
- Coach and empower teams to deliver outcomes and drive high performance, instilling Thomson Reuters values and measuring progress against team OKR’s
- Drive innovation and change initiatives
- Attract and develop great talent and build the next generation of leaders. You’ll ensure diversity of thought in teams; encouraging robust dialogue to surface diverse and opposing viewpoints and holding self and team accountable to commit to decisions once made
Application process
- Please Note: Completed applications must be submitted by Sunday 11th May 2025. Early applications are encouraged
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Thomson Reuters is reinventing the way professionals work. The multinational media conglomerate provides answers that help professionals make better decisions to run smarter businesses. It targets those in complicated sectors that move society forward; tax, law, compliance, government, and media.
Founded over 165 years ago, the company is now powered by thousands of international journalists. This bandwidth guarantees speed, impartiality, and insight that have helped Thomson Reuters retain its position a market leader. To stay competitive with companies founded in the digital era, Thomson Reuters places emphasis on helping clients reinvent themselves for the newly disruptive digital age.
As well as investing in the coverage of growth markets India and China, and embarking on a number of fintech acquisitions, Thomson Reuters announced an expansion of its long-term partnership with the London Stock Exchange Group in 2023. Together, they plan to enhance the value of financial and market news services to LSEG customers, whilst delivering a superior experience to professionals around the world.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
4% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Global careers
- Flexibility
- Work that matters
- Employee appreciation & recognition
- 2 paid volunteer days
- Learning and development
- Parental leave
- Social events and activities
- 2 mental health days off
Company HQ
Wellington Place, Toronto, ON
Leadership
Steve Hasker
(President & CEO, not founder)Previously served as Senior Advisor for TPG, CEO for Creative Artists Agency, Global President & Chief Operating Office for Nielsen, and as a Partner for McKinsey & Company.
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