Head of Legislation and Regulatory Editorial Operations APAC

LexisNexis; Selangor; Hybrid; MYR 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading legal service provider in Malaysia is seeking a Head of APAC to drive editorial strategies and ensure the quality of statutory content. You will lead diverse teams across regions, champion AI integration for workflows, and report on quality metrics. The ideal candidate will have a law degree, proven leadership in legal publishing, and strong AI fluency. This hybrid role supports legal professionals in making informed decisions, reinforcing accountability and collaboration.

Benefits

Life Assurance Policies

Long Service Award

Access to Learning and Development Resources

Career progression

Qualifications

• Proven experience embedding AI into editorial processes.
• Exceptional leadership and change management skills.
• Strong knowledge of at least one legal system within the region.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the editorial strategy for statutory and regulatory content.
• Oversee the acquisition and publication of statutory and regulatory content.
• Drive continuous improvement in workflows through automation and AI tools.

Skills

Leadership in legal publishing

AI Fluency

Data-driven decision-making

Advanced communication skills

Budget management

Education

Law degree (JD or equivalent)

Tools

Tableau

Power BI

Job description

About Our Team

LexisNexis Legal & Professional is a leading provider of legal data and information services. We specialise in delivering accurate, comprehensive, and timely legal content to professionals across various industries, including law firms, corporations, and government agencies. As a Legal Editor, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring the integrity and quality of our legal data products.

About The Role

Strategic Impact – Advancing the Rule of Law

This role is pivotal in delivering authoritative, timely, and comprehensive legal content that underpins LexisNexis products and services. By ensuring accuracy and accessibility of statutory and regulatory information, the Head of APAC enables legal professionals, businesses, and governments to make informed decisions, thereby strengthening transparency, compliance, and justice systems. The position directly supports LexisNexis’ mission to advance the rule of law worldwide, ensuring that legal information is available, reliable, and actionable for all stakeholders.

This is a full-time position, working across different APAC business hours and to liaise with UK/SA/US colleagues. Occasional travel across regions for team engagement and stakeholder meetings.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the editorial strategy for statutory and regulatory content across APAC, aligning with GEO and Legislation strategic aims while accommodating the unique priorities of each regional team
• Foster collaboration between teams, champion AI-enabled editorial practices to accelerate turnaround time and enhance content integrity and lead the adoption of online-first workflows tailored to the specific requirements of each region.

• Oversee the acquisition, consolidation, and publication of statutory and regulatory content for APAC jurisdictions, managing small editorial teams with varying roadmaps.
• Regularly report to diverse stakeholder groups on progress against OKRs and KPIs, ensuring comprehensive coverage and adherence to quality standards across all regions.
• Define and monitor success against quality, turnaround time, and cost metrics, considering the unique operational contexts of each editorial team.

• Monitor and optimise KPIs including budget, quality, timeliness, and coverage; provide transparent reporting to senior stakeholders.
• Drive continuous improvement in workflows, leveraging automation and AI tools for efficiency.

• Directly manage individual contributors
• Engage across APAC to inform leadership decisions and improve EOS.
• Build a high-performing, inclusive team culture that fosters accountability, collaboration, and innovation.
• Coach and mentor individuals to develop leadership capability; implement succession planning and career development frameworks.
• Recognise and nurture talent in all teams, creating opportunities for growth and professional advancement.

• Oversee all projects involving statutory and regulatory content in APAC, ensuring accurate estimation and requirements gathering, agile methodology adoption, timely delivery and stakeholder alignment.
• Partner with Product, Technology, and Commercial teams to align editorial outputs with customer needs and growth objectives.
• Represent the editorial function in enterprise-wide initiatives and GEO transformation programmes.

• Act as a champion for AI-first editorial workflows, ensuring adoption of generative and agentic AI capabilities across all processes.
• Partner with Technology and Product teams to embed AI tools into content acquisition, consolidation, and publication workflows.
• Drive experimentation and innovation with AI solutions for summarisation, classification, and quality improvement of legal content.
• Ensure editorial outputs are structured and tagged optimally for emerging AI experiences, including Lexis+ AI and future platforms.
• Monitor AI adoption metrics, identify and implement strategies to improve individual use of AI in day-to-day work, and report progress against GEO’s 80/80 vision.

Qualifications

• Law degree (JD or equivalent) essential; legal practice experience highly desirable.
• Proven leadership in legal publishing or editorial operations, with strong knowledge of at least one legals system within the region.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multi-region teams and complex editorial workflows.
• AI Fluency: Advanced understanding of AI technologies, LLMs, and agentic content platforms; proven experience embedding AI into editorial processes.
• Strong track record in people management and talent development.
• Experience managing budgets and vendor relationships.
• Familiarity with data analytics and performance dashboards (e.g., Tableau, Power BI).
• Exceptional leadership and change management skills.
• Strategic thinking with ability to translate vision into actionable plans.
• Advanced communication and influencing skills across global teams.
• Data-driven decision-making and proficiency with analytics tools.
• High adaptability and resilience in a fast-paced, matrixed environment.
• Commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion in team development.

Work in a way that works for you

We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organisation. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people.

• Hybrid work arrangements
• Career progression

Working for you

Benefits

We know that your wellbeing and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:

• Life Assurance Policies: Providing financial security for your loved ones.
• Long Service Award: Recognition for your dedication and loyalty.
• Hybrid work arrangements: Balance work and personal life effectively.
• Access to Learning and Development Resources: Empowering your professional growth.

About The Business

LexisNexis Legal & Professional® provides legal, regulatory, and business information and analytics that help customers increase their productivity, improve decision-making, achieve better outcomes, and advance the rule of law around the world. As a digital pioneer, the company was the first to bring legal and business information online with its Lexis® and Nexis® services.

We know your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. We are delighted to offer country specific benefits. Click here to access benefits specific to your location.