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Senior UX Designer

Role Summary:

We are seeking a Senior UX Product Designer to help shape the next generation of AI-powered experiences across our product ecosystem. In this role, you will work at the intersection of user experience, product strategy, and applied AI, translating complex model capabilities into intuitive, trustworthy, and high-impact workflows. You will define how humans collaborate with AI-designing the interactions, feedback loops, transparency moments, and control surfaces that make AI feel both powerful and reliable.

You will partner closely with product management, product engineering, and data science to build experiences that balance innovation with responsible AI practices. This role is ideal for a designer who thrives in ambiguity, understands the unique behaviors and constraints of AI systems, and can convert them into clear, user-centered solutions.

About the Role

As a Sr. UX Designer, you will:

• Lead the end-to-end design of AI-powered features, including agentic workflows, generative interactions, and human-in-the-loop systems

• Translate model behaviors, data inputs, and system limitations into coherent UX patterns that drive user trust and product adoption.

• Prototype with real AI/LLM models to evaluate user prompts, improve model responses, and inform product direction.

• Map and design collaboration patterns between users and AI-defining when AI acts autonomously, when humans take control, and how handoffs occur.

• Create clear interaction flows that incorporate transparency moments, safety guardrails, override options, and recovery states.

• Partner with data science and engineering to shape model requirements, evaluate performance constraints, and align system behaviors with user needs.

• Partner with UX Researchto run usability testing and AI-specific validation studies to understand user mental models, trust factors, and interaction expectations.

• Leverage qualitative and quantitativedata to runevaluative studies for AI features (e.g., prompt/response quality, hallucination risk, trust sign)

• Contribute to internal design standards for AI patterns, prompt design guidelines, evaluation criteria, and UX quality benchmarks.

• Collaborate with product and research teams toidentifynew opportunities where AI can meaningfully improve outcomes for users.

• Communicate design decisions with clarity, influence senior stakeholders, and guide teams through ambiguous or evolving problem spaces.

• Leverage AI tooling and internal content standards to deliver clear, concise,brandaligned product experiences.

• Design accessible solutions and collaborate with the Accessibility team to ensure WCAG 2.1 AA compliance, using AI checks alongside expert review.

About You

You're a fit for this role if you have:

• 6+ years of professional product design experience with a strong portfoliodemonstratingend-to-end ownership of complex workflows.

• Experience designing with AI or LLM technologies, including prompt design, generative UX, and evaluating model output quality.

• Strong interaction design skills with the ability to simplify ambiguous AI behaviors into predictable, user-centered experiences.

• Familiarity with model behaviors and limitations-hallucinations, confidence levels, deterministic vs. probabilistic output, and data quality impacts.

• Ability to prototype using tools such as Figma, Python notebooks, model sandboxes, or no-code AI orchestration tools.

• Hands-on experience planning and executing end-to-end user research-definingobjectives, recruiting participants, moderating studies (interviews, usability tests, surveys, concept/validation), synthesizing insights, and translating findings into roadmap and design decisions.

• Deep systems-thinking skills and comfortdesigningacross multiple layers: UI, data inputs, model constraints, and operational workflows.

• Experience collaborating with product management, product engineering, data science, product analytics, user research, content design, accessibility, UX engineering in high-velocity, cross-functional teams.

• Strong communicationand storytelling skills-able to influence decisions and articulate the "why" behind design choices.

• Commitment to responsible AI principles, including transparency, fairness, and user empowerment.

• A growth mindset, comfort navigating ambiguity, andan enthusiasmfor experimenting with emerging technologies.

Bonus

• Ability to design intuitive search, drafting, and review workflows-especially those involving complex knowledge structures or trust-critical decision moments.

• Comfort working with model-evaluation tooling, analytics dashboards, and prompt or version-management systems to understand and refine AI behavior.

• Strength in shaping information architecture for large-scale content ecosystems, including clear citation patterns, confidence signals, and quality indicators.

• Familiarity with domain-heavy environments-such as newsroom tooling, legal research, tax and compliance, risk and fraud, or financial analysis-and the abilityto translate complexity into usable experiences.

• Experience shipping zero-to-one products, iterating rapidly through ambiguity to test hypotheses, derisk bets, and accelerate productmarket fit.

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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, 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.

• Culture: Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and more. 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 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.

• Making a Real-World Impact:We are one of the few companies globally 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.

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 $117,700 USD - $218,600 USD. For any eligible US locations, unless otherwise noted, the base compensation range for this role is $102,200 USD - $189,800 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 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.

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