Senior Director, TAAP Strategic Innovation Partner

Position Overview

Strategic Innovation Partner – Tax, Audit & Accounting Professionals Senior Director (Strategic Accounts, TAAP Segment). Thomson Reuters is building a new senior advisory function to serve our most strategic tax, audit, and accounting firm accounts.

This client‑facing role operates at the intersection of AI strategy, technology transformation, and the business of professional tax and accounting services. You engage senior firm leadership to help them think through how AI changes their organizations, competition and client delivery, and you work across the full client lifecycle from pre‑sale to post‑sale to ensure Thomson Reuters is positioned as an indispensable strategic partner.

The role is a peer advisory role; its credibility depends entirely on depth of experience from inside the accounting and tax profession. It is not about product demos or adoption metrics, but about executive relationships and strategic counsel at the firm leadership level. It can be based in Minneapolis‑St. Paul, Ann Arbor, Dallas, or NYC.

• Serve as the senior executive advisor for a portfolio of strategic accounting, audit, and tax firm accounts, engaging firm leadership—Managing Partner, Chief Information Officer, Chief Innovation Officer, National Tax Practice Leader, COO—on AI strategy, transformation roadmap, and operating model design.
• Build trusted, peer‑level relationships with firm leadership that give Thomson Reuters a seat at the table when strategic technology decisions are being made.
• Partner with the Account Executive across the full sales and relationship lifecycle—from pre‑sale and close through post‑sale—providing the executive credibility and strategic altitude that enables the broader account team to operate more effectively.
• Develop and deliver a clear, informed point of view on how AI is reshaping the economics and operating models of accounting and tax firms—grounded enough to hold up in a partners’ committee or practice leadership conversation.
• Partner and maintain dotted line relationships to the Product Organization to deeply understand our product roadmap, feature development and upcoming launches to best articulate back to customers.
• Surface executive‑level insight back to TR product and business leadership on where firms are investing, what is blocking AI adoption, and what senior leaders need from their technology partners.
• Represent Thomson Reuters at senior accounting, tax, and audit industry forums, client round tables, and executive events where firm‑level credibility is the prerequisite for the room.

• Experience working as a senior technology, innovation, or transformation leader inside a major accounting firm, audit practice, or tax advisory organization—such as a Director or Senior Director of Innovation, Technology, or Practice Transformation at a Big4, national, or regional firm.
• Operated at a level where you shaped firm strategy and built partner and leadership buy‑in.
• 10–20 years of career experience, with meaningful time inside an accounting, audit, or tax advisory environment that mirrors the clients you will serve.
• Practical understanding of accounting and tax firm partnership structures—what drives partner adoption, how governance decisions get made across practice lines, and where technology change efforts stall.
• Grounded point of view on how AI changes tax compliance, audit delivery, advisory work, staffing, and pricing—developed through direct experience inside a firm, not observation.
• Fluency in the accounting and tax technology landscape, including Thomson
  
  ReutersONESOURCE, Checkpoint, AccountingCS, or equivalent platforms, and how they fit into firm‑wide technology strategy.
• Familiarity with the regulatory and compliance dimensions of the TAAP space—how AI adoption intersects with audit independence requirements, professional standards, and data governance obligations.
• Ability to operate credibly with firm leadership without a commercial agenda—your relationships will directly influence retention and growth.
• Executive communication skills: effective one‑on‑one with a skeptical tax partner and equally effective in a firm innovation or…