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Compensation Director, Go to Market and North America | Total Rewards / Compensation

Do you want to shape compensation strategy for some of our fastest-growing, most commercially diverse businesses, and help sales and marketing leaders make better, faster, fairer pay decisions? Join Thomson Reuters and play a key role in advancing how we attract, retain, and reward talent across our Go to Market organization and North America region.

As Compensation Director, Go to Market and North America, reporting to the Vice President, Compensation, you will lead compensation strategy and advisory work for our Legal, Tax, Audit and Accounting Professionals, and Corporates businesses, while also supporting Marketing and our Print business. You will also own regional cross-business compensation matters for North America, partnering closely with HR and business leaders across multiple functions. You'll oversee key compensation processes (including the Annual Compensation Process), help evolve pay range and incentive structures, and provide expertise and implementation on regulatory and policy considerations for North America - all while collaborating with global peers and the Design & Analytics team to deliver insight-driven solutions.

About the Role

• Lead compensation strategy and advice for Go to Market businesses: Provide guidance, recommendations, and analysis to HR and business partners across Legal, Tax, Audit and Accounting Professionals, and Corporates, and in support of Marketing and Print, balancing market practice with internal principles.

• Own regional cross-business compensation matters for North America: Act as the primary point of contact for North America compensation topics that cut across business lines, ensuring consistency, market competitiveness, and regulatory compliance.

• Own and deliver the Annual Compensation Process (ACP) for your businesses: Work in conjunction with globally distributed peers to oversee pre-review data readiness, plan set-up and validation, and enable leaders and HR teams through communications, training, and in-process support.

• Develop and maintain pay and incentive structures for sales, marketing, and go-to-market roles: Partner with the VP, Compensation, our expert Analyst team, and global peers including our Revenue Operations colleagues, to analyse market movement and evolve base pay ranges, sales incentive plans, and go-to-market compensation frameworks.

• Govern compensation change activity in Workday: Review, challenge, and approve compensation-related requests; collaborate with HR Digital to improve Workday functionality and strengthen BAU and annual process delivery.

• Act as a global reward partner and framework owner: Support your assigned business or functional areas, contribute to global compensation initiatives, and own assigned job families within the Global Role Framework, including sales and go-to-market job families.

• Drive insight, compliance, and change: Partner with the Analysts to specify models and reporting; advise on evolving North American pay-related regulations and policy; and provide compensation expertise for M&A transition and integration activities affecting your businesses.

About You

• Extensive compensation experience with a sales and marketing focus: Typically 10+ years in compensation/reward roles, including significant experience designing and managing compensation and incentive programs for sales, marketing, and associated go-to-market functions; Bachelor's degree (or equivalent experience).

• Sector relevance: Prior experience in SaaS or a similar technology environment is highly desirable, particularly designing sales incentive plans, quota-setting frameworks, or go-to-market compensation structures.

• Strong technical capability: Demonstrated strong quantitative skills and advanced Excel capability, ideally actively engaged in the use of AI tolls to support compensation work, with the ability to translate data into clear, practical and creative recommendations for technical leaders.

• North American regulatory expertise: Proven experience managing compensation across US and Canadian legal and regulatory frameworks, with confidence advising on policy and compliance considerations.

• Effective partnering across a diverse business portfolio: Comfortable operating with significant autonomy in a hybrid environment, collaborating with colleagues across multiple business lines, functions, and time zones; demonstrated engagement with business strategy to inform compensation management.

• Clear communication and stakeholder management: Skilled at listening, influencing, and explaining complex compensation topics to commercial and HR leaders.

• Continuous improvement mindset: Track record of simplifying, automating, and streamlining compensation processes; experience developing and delivering AI-enabled solutions is a distinct advantage.

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Replacement: This position is open due to an existing vacancy to support our evolving business needs.

What's in it For You?

• Hybrid Work Model: We've adopted a flexible hybrid working environment 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.

Our use of AI within the recruitment process Thomson Reuters utilizes Artificial Intelligence (AI) to support parts of our global recruitment process. Unless you opt-out, our AI system will assess the information provided by you and compare it to the requirements listed for the role, and present the result to our recruitment personnel for further review. The AI system acts as a supporting tool, but there is always a human making the decision if you will be considered for the role.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. For any eligible US locations, unless otherwise noted, the base compensation range for this role is $137,200 USD - $254,800 USD. For Ontario, Canada, the base compensation range for this role is $155,000 CAD - $205,000 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. 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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