VP, Legal Content (Virtual, Full Time)

Job Summary

The VP, Legal Content provides strategic leadership over the planning, development, and execution of WealthCounsel's legal content software solutions, including Wealth Docx, Elder Docx, Business Docx, Wealth Tracx, and Gun Docx. Drawing on deep expertise in legal technology in estate planning, the VP, Legal Content serves as the senior stakeholder for these products, ensuring their value, usability, and usefulness to WealthCounsel members and prospects. This position reports to the Chief Content Officer (CCO).

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Provides strategic leadership to the Legal Content team, including the Editors in Chief, the Director of Content Development, Legal Editors, and the Product Implementation Manager; supervises and supports these leaders in the execution of their respective areas.
• In collaboration with the CCO, establishes the strategic direction of the company's core software solutions, including Wealth Docx, Elder Docx, Business Docx, Gun Docx, and Wealth Tracx; executes this strategy in continuous collaboration with company leadership, Legal Content team subject matter experts, and the Products and Engineering teams.
• Oversees the development of legal content and the content authoring tools used for legal content development from ideation through production; proactively addresses and resolves issues and risks that arise.
• Communicates with WealthCounsel members, the Products and Engineering team, the Legal Content team, and other stakeholders to identify and assess legal content and software solutions requirements; applies this knowledge to support software solutions development strategy.
• Collaborates with the Learning team to develop educational materials relevant to WealthCounsel’s legal content solutions.
• Presents to and creates written materials for WealthCounsel members and staff about legal technology and substantive estate planning topics.
• Ensures compliance with applicable legal regulations, industry best practices, and company processes and procedures.

General Leadership

• Establishes and communicates strategic direction across all areas of responsibility; executes strategy in collaboration with the CCO and company leadership.
• Communicates department, program, and project performance and process to the CCO through periodic status reports and presentations.
• Develops, implements, and tracks key performance metrics, milestones, specifications, documentation and reporting requirements, and budgets.
• Tracks and analyzes program, project, and process costs across all areas of responsibility.
• Promotes collaboration across departments.
• Maintains current knowledge of trends in the legal technology industry.

Executive Supervisory Responsibilities

• Interviews, hires, and trains management-level staff in the Legal Content department.
• Oversees the daily workflow of the Legal Content department.
• Provides constructive and timely performance feedback and evaluations to ensure top-level performance at all levels of the department.
• Led fair and consistent employee accountability processes, including corrective action and termination, in compliance with company guidelines.

Qualifications

• Juris Doctor (JD) required.
• At least 10 years of industry-related experience, including a minimum of three years in an upper management role.
• 10+ years of experience in estate planning and/or elder law.
• Knowledge and familiarity with WealthCounsel's legal content software solutions.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a proven ability to improve business processes and practices to reduce costs and increase efficiency.
• Able to identify and implement best practices and continual performance measurement.
• Excellent interpersonal and negotiation skills.
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Strong supervisory and leadership skills.
• Interest in the creative potential of using technology to solve lawyers’ problems and overcome pain points in their practices.
• Knowledge of document automation software preferred.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite or related software.
• Willingness to regularly teach, present, and write required.
• Travel to conferences required.

Company Benefits

• A generous paid time off package that includes: Paid Time Off (PTO), Holidays (including 2 Floating Holidays), Volunteer Time, Blood Donor Leave, Short Term Disability, Paid Parental Leave and more!
• Matching donations for approved charitable organizations
• Home internet and gym membership reimbursement
• Many opportunities to connect with others from your home office and have fun while you work

Salary

The salary range listed reflects the total on target earnings for this position (base salary plus bonus).