Product Mgr II

LexisNexis Risk Solutions; Durban; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Aid

Retirement Plan incl. Risk Benefits

Family benefits including adoption and

Study Leave

Flexible hours

Job summary

LexisNexis Legal & Professional in Durban is seeking a Product Manager II to own one or more product capabilities and drive customer and business outcomes across the end-to-end lifecycle.

You will collaborate with customers and cross-functional teams to shape AI-powered research, drafting, workflow, and productivity solutions while ensuring legal content is effectively enabled within the platform to maximise customer value.

Qualifications

• 4-6 years of product management experience or related role.
• Experience in legal tech, content, or information services.
• Proven ownership of product capabilities from discovery through launch.
• Experience delivering measurable customer and business outcomes.
• Experience developing product plans, business cases, and roadmap priorities.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration and clear communication.
• Data-driven decision making and analytical acumen.

Responsibilities

• Own a defined product area, being accountable for customer and business outcomes from discovery through launch and optimization.
• Engage directly with customers to identify unmet needs, validate problems, and uncover opportunities for innovation.
• Prioritize and manage roadmap investments using customer insights, data, commercial impact, strategic alignment, and technical considerations.
• Partner with engineering, design, data, and commercial teams to translate customer problems into valuable product solutions.
• Define and monitor success metrics, using analytics and experimentation to guide product decisions and measure impact.
• Contribute to product strategy, business cases, and product plans through customer, market, competitive, and commercial analysis.
• Support successful product launches and adoption through close collaboration with sales, marketing, customer success, and operational teams.
• Communicate priorities, decisions, trade-offs, and progress effectively to stakeholders across the business.

Skills

Product management

Cross-functional teamwork

Data-driven decisions

Stakeholder management

Job description

Are you passionate about building AI-powered products that transform how legal professionals work? Do you enjoy turning customer insights into innovative solutions that deliver measurable business and customer outcomes?

About your Team LexisNexis Legal & Professional

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 (https://stories.relx.com/responsible-ai-principles/index.html).

About the Role

As a Product Manager II within the Lexis+ portfolio, you will own one or more product capabilities and be accountable for delivering customer and business outcomes across the end-to-end product lifecycle. Working closely with customers and cross-functional teams, you will help shape AI-powered research, drafting, workflow, and productivity solutions while ensuring legal content is effectively enabled within the platform to maximize customer value.

Responsibilities

Own a defined product area, being accountable for customer and business outcomes from discovery through launch and optimization.

Engage directly with customers to identify unmet needs, validate problems, and uncover opportunities for innovation.

Prioritize and manage roadmap investments using customer insights, data, commercial impact, strategic alignment, and technical considerations.

Partner with engineering, design, data, and commercial teams to translate customer problems into valuable product solutions.

Define and monitor success metrics, using analytics and experimentation to guide product decisions and measure impact.

Contribute to product strategy, business cases, and product plans through customer, market, competitive, and commercial analysis.

Support successful product launches and adoption through close collaboration with sales, marketing, customer success, and operational teams.

Communicate priorities, decisions, trade-offs, and progress effectively to stakeholders across the business.

Requirements

4-6 years of product management experience or related role, preferably in legal tech, content, or information services.

Demonstrated ownership of product capabilities or features from discovery through launch and optimization.

Track record of delivering measurable customer and business outcomes.

Experience developing product plans, business cases, requirements, and roadmap priorities.

Experience working with cross-functional teams and influencing stakeholders through clear communication and effective alignment.

Strong customer, analytical, commercial, and organizational acumen, with the ability to manage competing priorities and make data-driven decisions.

Working for you

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

• Medical Aid
• Retirement Plan inclusive of Risk Benefits (Disability, Critical Illness, Life Cover & Funeral Cover)
• Modern family benefits, including adoption and surrogacy
• Study Leave Working Pattern Working flexible hours
• flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive.

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.

We are committed to providing a fair and accessible hiring process. If you have a disability or other need that requires accommodation or adjustment, please let us let us know by completing our Applicant Request Support Form or please contact 1-855-833-5120.

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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LexisNexis Legal & Professional is a leading global provider of 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.

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.