AI-Driven Global Legislation Optimization Lead

Matthew Bender & Company, Inc. Company; North Carolina; Hybrid; USD 95,000 - 159,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual incentive bonus

Country specific benefits

Job summary

LexisNexis Legal & Professional seeks a senior leader to define and deliver the global AI content optimization strategy for legislative and regulatory content. You will align editorial, product and technology priorities and drive scalable AI-enabled roadmap delivery across regions.

The role requires 5+ years in content/editorial roles within legal domains, strong AI/NLP experience, and a proven ability to influence senior stakeholders across time zones.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required; law degree preferred.
• 5+ years in content, publishing, legal editorial, product development or project management within legislative or regulatory domains.
• Extensive experience of legal content across codified and common law systems.
• Demonstrated experience applying AI, LLMs, automation or NLP within content or workflow optimization contexts.
• Track record of delivering complex, cross‑functional projects on time and to budget in a global environment.
• High proficiency in data analysis, performance measurement and insight reporting.
• Exceptional communication skills with proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and collaborate across teams and time zones.
• Strategic mindset with the ability to balance innovation, operational realities and business outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Define and deliver the global AI content optimization strategy for legislative and regulatory content, ensuring alignment with editorial, product and technology transformation priorities.
• Lead global ideation, requirements gathering and prioritization cross the group for AI-enabled content generation, summarization, enrichment, classification and structural optimization, making recommendations as to cost, benefits, and implementation to the Global Head of Legislation.
• Partner with cross-functional teams including product management, engineering, editorial managers and project management to translate ideas into scalable roadmap deliverables.
• Oversee the design, testing and global deployment of AI-driven editorial tools and workflows, ensuring seamless integration with existing technologies and platforms.
• Develop and maintain global standards and guidelines for AI-generated or AI-optimized legislative content, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and copyright alignment.
• Champion AI-first editorial practices, helping teams adopt new tooling, improve editorial decision-making and reduce manual work through automation.
• Support the development of metrics frameworks for AI-enabled content quality, workflow performance, model behavior and customer impact.
• Use data to report insights, outcomes and performance to senior leadership and stakeholders, providing visibility on effectiveness, risks and opportunities.
• Keep abreast of market trends, LLM technologies, emerging NLP capabilities and competitive intelligence, translating innovation into practical editorial applications.
• Work with editorial teams globally to develop the necessary skills to adopt AI best practice and support capability building to develop a digitally mature, AI-enabled operation.

Skills

AI strategy

Content/ed editorial

Cross-functional leadership

AI/LLM/NLP

Data analysis & metrics

Stakeholder management

Project management

Editorial tooling adoption

Education

Bachelor's degree

Law degree preferred

Job description

LexisNexis Legal & Professional seeks a senior leader to define and deliver the global AI content optimization strategy for legislative and regulatory content. You will align editorial, product and technology priorities and drive scalable AI-enabled roadmap delivery across regions.

The role requires 5+ years in content/editorial roles within legal domains, strong AI/NLP experience, and a proven ability to influence senior stakeholders across time zones.