Director of Canadian Content Development (Legal Software)

The New York Times; Toronto; On-site; CAD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading LegalTech company as the Director of Canadian Content Development, overseeing the content team to enhance legal software offerings. This role blends legal expertise with technology, offering opportunities to innovate in a supportive and dynamic environment. Thrive in a team that values inclusivity while nurturing your career in the legal technology sector.

Benefits

Competitive compensation

Excellent group insurance benefits

RRSP with employer matching

Generous Paid Time Off

Hybrid working model

Collaborative work environment

Qualifications

• 5+ years as a Litigation lawyer in Ontario.
• Experience in legal publishing and legal software.
• Familiarity with project management and team leadership.

Responsibilities

• Directing content development for legal software.
• Managing a multi-national content team.
• Ensuring legal content is compliant with legislation.

Skills

Project Management

Legal Knowledge

Negotiation

Education

Juris Doctor (JD) or equivalent

Job description

LOOKING FOR A CAREER IN LEGAL TECH?

ARE YOU A LAWYER LOOKING FOR A ROLE IN A CUTTING-EDGE TECH COMPANY WITH A GREAT WORK-LIFE BALANCE?

We are seeking a Director of Canadian Content Development to manage our Content team. The Director of Content Development oversees and directs the Content Development team at LEAP Canada, including Form Designers, Content Developers, and Legal Research Specialists, who work to provide high-quality legal content to LEAP users. As this role will have an important focus on litigation content, we are seeking an intermediate Litigation lawyer who is interested in a career in legal tech. This role will report to the Chief Executive Officer (CEO).

About LEAP

LEAP is the leading provider of Legal Practice Productivity Solutions in the world and is part of ATI – one of the largest international LegalTech companies. For more than 30 years, our curiosity and commitment to continual improvement have kept us reimagining productivity tools for lawyers and their staff to support our guiding purpose, which is to ‘Help lawyers who help people.’ The market-leading software we develop, and support is used by more than 100,000 lawyers and their staff in small and medium-sized law firms.

Working alongside our international team of passionate high achievers, you’ll join a fast-growing technology business where things seldom stay the same for long. With more than 1000 smart, caring and ambitious ‘LEAPsters’ working together across Australia, Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, Poland and New Zealand, you’ll be in good company here.

Meet the Content Development team

Our Content Development team consists of local, regional, and global professionals reassuring clients that our software isn’t just cutting edge – it’s world-class, too. Responsible for maintaining LEAP’s global standards of care and expertise, the team harnesses a deep and complex understanding of the intricacies of law across jurisdictions and over time – ensuring LEAP’s output is always current, compliant and appropriate.

From database design to document management and legal research, you’ll turn an in-depth knowledge of the law into a more streamlined and automated global LEAP experience. As a result, LEAP helps law firms help people and make a real difference.

Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities

• Executive responsibility for the strategic direction of legal content in LEAP Legal Software Canada.
• Attending and contributing to quarterly strategic planning sessions for LEAP Canada as a member of the Executive team to generate specific projects for delivery in three, six and twelve-month windows.
• Recruiting, leading and coordinating Content team to achieve and deliver strategic projects, managing staff based in Canada and Poland.
• Project management: overseeing the conceptualization, planning, development and on-time delivery of legal content projects to clients, ensuring timescales, costs, and resources.
• Collaborating with sales, marketing, support/helpdesk and other departments to ensure that Content provides a positive user experience to clients.
• Overseeing the delivery of LEAP Canada legal forms and precedents.
• Providing assistance, guidance and support to the Form Designers, Content Developers, and Legal Research Specialists.
• Building solid relationships with clients and internal parties to improve LEAP forms and precedents, matter types, data design and client services; assessing and implementing market feedback
• Ensuring the team stays ahead of any legislation changes to ensure LEAP forms and precedents are in compliance.
• Using AI to draft prompt templates for legal documents, such as affidavits and letters.
• Identifying and implementing opportunities to improve the legal content available for clients in LEAP

Required Qualifications

• Litigation lawyer (5+ years) with in-depth knowledge and experience practising Litigation in Ontario.
• Solid experience in legal content and knowledge of legal practice workflows (legal software, legal publishing, legal education, internal law firm marketing, legal news).
• Experience working with a legal software management system as a user in a small to medium size law firm (having used LEAP software in a law firm environment would be an advantage).
• Experience launching content into a new market.
• Experience working with other lawyers and legal professional to gain and implement feedback from the legal market in a legal content context.
• Experienced negotiator to ensure that all projects are achieved within required timeframes.
• Experience contributing to strategic direction and company goal setting at a senior level.
• Experience using a content management system to work with legal content.
• Strong project management experience where that project has been managed from conception to completion and delivered to the market.
• Experience successfully managing a team (ideally with employees in various locations) as well as other managerial responsibilities e.g. performance, setting targets and the recruitment and interviewing of new team members.
• Experience collaborating with managers and peers of other departments; working within international teams or within in a global company a definite asset.
• Ability to travel occasionally for conferences and other work-related initiatives.

Benefits

Why work at LEAP?

There are endless opportunities within our business to progress and grow your career and full training is provided so an aptitude and hunger to learn is essential. We offer:

• Competitive compensation
• Excellent group insurance benefits
• RRSP with employer matching
• Generous Paid Time Off (PTO), including starting at 4 weeks’ vacation, sick days, floater/personal days and volunteer days
• Hybrid working model at our beautiful and modern downtown Toronto office as well as work from home days
• Collaborative and inclusive work environment filled with learning and support

At LEAP, we care about what we do and the people we work with, we continually improve to be the best, and we NEVER EVER GIVE UP!

At LEAP we are committed to fostering an inclusive and accessible environment. We are dedicated to building a workforce that reflects the diversity of the community in which we live, including those with disabilities. LEAP is committed to providing accommodations in all parts of the hiring process. If you require accommodation, we will work with you to meet your needs.