Manager Data Science

LexisNexis Legal & Professional; Raleigh (NC); On-site; USD 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wellbeing initiatives

Shared parental leave

Study assistance

Sabbaticals

Job summary

LexisNexis Legal & Professional is seeking a Manager of Data Science to lead a high-impact team building AI systems powered by LLMs and RAG architectures for legal drafting and analysis.

You will drive strategy, execution, and team growth, delivering context-aware documents and interconnected data insights across enterprise sources.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3+ years of people management experience leading teams building LLM-based applications, with domain rigor such as legal or compliance.
• Hands-on delivery of systems using LangChain, LLM agent frameworks, vector databases, and prompt orchestration.
• Experience deploying retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) architectures with auditable outputs.

Responsibilities

• Define roadmap for applying LLMs and agentic AI to real-world legal drafting.
• Architect systems combining foundation models with RAG pipelines to draft contracts and memos grounded in enterprise knowledge.
• Mentor and grow a multidisciplinary team of Data Scientists and ML Engineers; collaborate with Legal SMEs, Data Engineers, PMs, and Design.

Skills

People management

LLM-focused system design

RAG architectures

Production ML systems

NLP/LLM evaluation

Education

Graduate degree in CS/AI/ML

Tools

LangChain

HuggingFace Transformers

OpenAI APIs

Vector databases

Docker/Kubernetes

Job description

Are you excited to lead the development of next-generation AI-powered legal solutions that help professionals draft, reason, and work more effectively with complex legal information?

Do you thrive at the intersection of people leadership, large language models, retrieval-augmented generation, and product innovation, turning emerging AI capabilities into meaningful customer outcomes?

About our Team

LexisNexis Legal & Professional, which serves customers in more than 150 countries with 11,800 employees worldwide, is part of RELX (http://www.relx.com), a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers. Our company has been a long-time leader in deploying AI and advanced technologies to the legal market to improve productivity and transform the overall business and practice of law, deploying ethical and powerful generative AI solutions with a flexible, multi-model approach that prioritizes using the best model from today's top model creators for each individual legal use case. The company employs over 2,000 technologists, data scientists, and experts to develop, test, and validate solutions in line with RELX Responsible AI Principles.

About LexisNexis Data Sciences

At LexisNexis, we’re redefining legal intelligence through advanced AI. Our teams harness the power of large language models (LLMs), retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and agentic systems to build tools that analyze, draft, and reason with legal text. Join us in building AI systems that help legal professionals move faster, think deeper, and operate with confidence.

Role Overview

We are seeking a Manager of Data Science to lead a high-impact team focused on building intelligent systems powered by LLMs and RAG architectures. This role will focus on improving LLM-powered drafting and retrieval solutions through advanced search, embeddings, re-ranking, evaluation, and production-grade ML components.

You’ll drive the strategy, technical execution, and team growth necessary to build next-generation legal assistants, capable of contextual document drafting, and interaction with structured and unstructured data sources.

Key Responsibilities

• Vision & Strategy:
  • Define the roadmap for applying LLMs and agentic AI to real-world legal drafting.
  • Evangelize and embed AI-driven change across legal product platforms.
  • Translate evolving generative AI capabilities into tangible customer value within the legal domain.
• Technical & Product Leadership:
  • Architect systems that combine foundation models with RAG pipelines to draft contracts, memos, and pleadings grounded in enterprise knowledge.
  • Guide the development of AI agents that perform multi-step reasoning, cite evidence, retrieve domain-specific content, and produce compliant outputs.
• Team & Operational Excellence:
  • Mentor and grow a multidisciplinary team of LLM-focused Data Scientists and ML Engineers.
  • Drive cross-functional collaboration with Legal SMEs, Data Engineers, Product Managers, and Design.
  • Establish best practices for evaluation, observability, and responsible use of generative AI.

Core Qualifications

Experience

• Previous people management experience (3+ years) of teams building LLM-based applications, especially in domains requiring rigor and traceability like legal, finance, or compliance.
• Hands-on experience delivering systems using LangChain, LLM agent frameworks, vector databases, and prompt orchestration pipelines.
• Strong background in deploying retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems for grounded and auditable responses.
• Demonstrated success in taking LLM-powered applications from prototype to production.

Technical Proficiency

• Proficient with Python and LLM tooling: LangChain, HuggingFace Transformers, OpenAI APIs, and prompt tuning techniques.
• Familiarity with vector databases (e.g., Solr, Elasticsearch, Qdrant, Weaviate), knowledge graphs, and hybrid retrieval architectures.
• Working knowledge of containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), CI/CD, and model serving tools (TorchServe, Triton, Ray Serve).
• Cloud infrastructure experience on AWS, Azure, or GCP.

Preferred Background

• Graduate degree in Computer Science, AI, Machine Learning, or equivalent experience.
• 6 years of post-degree experience, with 3+ years in a data science or applied AI leadership role, with a focus on NLP/LLM systems.
• Prior experience in legal tech, legal AI, or document-intensive domains is highly desirable.
• Familiarity with ethical/legal considerations in deploying generative AI in professional settings.

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. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.

Working Pattern

Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work.