Deployed AI Strategist

Job Description

As a Deployed AI Strategist, you will serve as the primary technical liaison between our product and end users. You will lead the hands-on deployment of AI solutions directly within audit firms, embedding yourself in their workflows to ensure successful adoption. You are the trust-layer: a credentialed professional who speaks the language of the customer, understands the regulatory environment, and guides practitioners through natural language workflow construction as a trusted advisor. You will partner closely with forward-deployed engineers to translate client needs into technical requirements and rapidly iterate on solutions in the field. This role requires strong collaboration with internal teams (product management, engineering, sales, and customer success) to deliver customers a seamless experience with new-to-market AI solutions. 

Key Responsibilities: 

In the role of Deployed AI Strategist, you will: 

• Lead customer discovery to understand existing processes, identify automation opportunities, and assess use case feasibility 

• Guide customers through workflow construction using natural language prompting, building reusable skill templates and a prompt library scalable across service lines 

• Identify, document, and escalate edge cases, output quality issues, and domain-specific gaps to product and engineering; participate in feature testing to close the feedback loop 

• Partner with sales during pre-close engagements to provide technical credibility and workflow demonstrations 

• Track and report on value realization metrics for assigned accounts, including time saved, review cycles reduced, and engagement throughput 

• Develop and deliver training resources to customers, enabling them to self-serve on identified use cases 

Required Qualifications

You are a fit for the role of Deployed AI Strategist if you have: 

• An active CPA license or equivalent professional credential (required) 

• 3-8 years of public accounting experience, ideally at a regional or national firm (Big 4 experience preferred) 
• Hands-on experience in audit and assurance, or advisory/financial analysis 
• Deep familiarity with AI tools and comfort working in early-stage, ambiguous environments 
• Demonstrated ability to translate technical concepts for non-technical audiences 

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong organization and project management skills 

• Willingness to travel for on-site customer workshops 

Why Join Us? 

This is a high-impact customer-facing role, giving you the opportunity to shape our AI deployment strategy. You’ll help build the foundational prompt library and domain knowledge base that shapes product direction from the ground up, while serving as the trusted liaison between an advanced AI product and real-world tax and audit professionals. 

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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.

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 $115,300 USD - $214,100 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.

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