Global Legislation AI Optimisation 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

Key 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

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required; law degree preferred
• Minimum 5 years’ experience 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

Skills and Competencies

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to translate complex requirements into actionable deliverables
• AI fluency including prompt design, model-aware thinking and understanding of LLM capabilities and limitations
• Strong stakeholder management and relationship-building skills across global teams
• Ability to lead through influence, driving adoption of new technologies and ways of working
• Detail-oriented, organized and able to adapt quickly to evolving priorities
• Experience in agile delivery; ability to work effectively within iterative delivery environments
• Resilience and adaptability in a fastmoving, technology-driven environment

Salary and Benefits

U.S. National Base Pay Range: $95,300 - $158,800. Geographic differentials may apply in some locations to better reflect local market rates. This job is eligible for an annual incentive bonus.

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

Equal Opportunity

We are an equal opportunity employer: qualified applicants are considered for and treated during employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship status, disability status, protected veteran status, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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About the Company

LexisNexis Legal & Professional is a leading global provider of legal, regulatory and business information and analytics that help customers increase productivity, improve decision-making and outcomes, and advance the rule of law around the world. We help lawyers win cases, manage their work more efficiently, serve their clients better and grow their practices. We assist corporations in better understanding their markets and preventing bribery and corruption within their supply chains. We partner with leading global associations and customers to help collect evidence against war criminals and provide tools to combat human trafficking. We endeavour to advance the rule of law across the world. Our teams are combining unparalleled legal and business information with analytics and technology to advance what’s possible for the way our customers work and to advance what’s possible in the world by strengthening the rule of law.