North America Legislation Content Specialist

About the role

The North America Legislation Content Specialist serves as a regional subject matter expert for the US and Canada across multiple legislative projects within Global Editorial Operations.

Responsibilities

• Act as the primary SME for legislation across North America and Canada, maintaining deep knowledge of local frameworks while understanding global legislative approaches
• Work with the Legislation editorial team to advise across multiple projects on authoritative sources, acquisition models, update frequency, completeness requirements, and jurisdictional nuances
• Define content acquisition requirements and ensure reliable source coverage aligned with global standards
• Provide expert guidance on conversion rules, data modelling, versioning requirements, and publication workflows to ensure outputs meet user needs defined by product strategy
• Develop and implement a content strategy for each jurisdiction, aligned with customer needs, commercial priorities, and global product roadmaps
• Identify new legislative opportunities, expansion areas, or improvements in coverage to strengthen market competitiveness
• Translate legislative and editorial requirements into actionable backlogs, user stories, and acceptance criteria
• Lead defining editorial requirements for CMSs, tooling, workflows and data structures to support legislative content, including versioning, relationships, point-in-time rules and metadata
• Produce high-quality editorial effort estimates for acquisition, conversion, enhancement, QA and publication activities
• Identify scope risks, constraints, and delivery dependencies early and communicate them clearly to PMs and stakeholders
• Work closely with GTO, Product and Technology to optimise the tooling ecosystem and ensure editorial workflows are efficient, scalable, and automation-ready
• Test new tools, enhancements and pipeline updates, providing structured and actionable feedback
• Collaborate with colleagues across Editorial, Technology, Product, Commercial, GTO and regional leadership to ensure alignment and remove delivery blockers
• Lead and participate in agile ceremonies, ensuring clear articulation of editorial requirements to PMs, BAs, developers, QA and other contributors
• Manage cross-workstream dependencies from acquisition through to publication
• Ensure consistency, accuracy and compliance with global editorial standards
• Collaborate with colleagues across Editorial, Technology, Product, Commercial, GTO and regional leadership to ensure alignment and remove delivery blockers

Requirements

• Law degree (or equivalent)
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in legal research, editorial roles, or legislative content management
• Proven ability to lead agile ceremonies and apply agile methodologies in a content or technology environment
• Demonstrated AI fluency, including practical experience with AI tools, LLMs, and automation in editorial workflows
• Strong understanding of legislative frameworks and processes in the specialist jurisdiction, with working knowledge of other major jurisdictions

Skills and Competencies

• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills, with ability to translate complex legislative concepts into clear requirements
• Strong leadership and collaboration skills for managing cross-functional teams
• Expertise with emerging AI technologies, LLMs, and prompt engineering
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement abilities
• Highly organised, detail-oriented, and adaptable to changing priorities and business needs
• Flexible and resilient, with the ability to pivot quickly in response to evolving strategies or technologies
• Project management experience (e.g., Agile, Scrum) desirable

Pay

U.S. National Base Pay Range: $59,200 - $98,600. Geographic differentials may apply in some locations to better reflect local market rates.

Schedule

Full-time, hybrid or homeworking, position, global collaboration across time zones. Occasional travel may be required for strategic meetings or training.