North America Legislation Content Specialist
RELX, North Beach Haven, New Jersey, United States
Do you enjoy building solid internal and external relationships resulting in growth? Do you enjoy collaborating cross-functionally to deliver on common goals?
Purpose of Role Reporting to the Global Head of Legislation, 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. The role provides leadership and detailed analysis on source identification, content acquisition, conversion standards, and publication workflows to ensure legislative content meets defined user needs and the global product strategy. They act as a central point of editorial expertise, ensuring highquality, AI-ready legislative datasets across diverse jurisdictions. The role will provide end-to-end oversight across editorial workstreams, partner closely with GTO on tooling and workflow optimisation, define CMS requirements, and deliver clear editorial estimates and requirements into planning and sprint ceremonies. AI fluency is essential, as the role contributes to the modernisation of legislative workflows and the integration of automation and advanced technologies.
Key Responsibilities
Act as the primary SME for legislation across North America and Canada, maintaining deep knowledge of local frameworks while understanding global legislative approaches
Working with the Legislation editorial team, 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
Working with key stakeholders, 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, pointin time rules and metadata
Produce highquality 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
Coordinate editorial expertise across multiple concurrent projects, ensuring consistency, accuracy and compliance with global editorial standards
Lead and participate in agile ceremonies, ensuring clear articulation of editorial requirements to PMs, BAs, developers, QA and other contributors
Manage crossworkstream dependencies from acquisition through to publication
Collaborate with colleagues across Editorial, Technology, Product, Commercial, GTO and regional leadership to ensure alignment and remove delivery blockers
Required Qualifications
Law degree (or equivalent)
Practice experience in legislative or regulatory work (desirable)
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
Working Conditions
Full-time, hybrid or homeworking, position, global collaboration across time zones
Occasional travel may be required for strategic meetings or training
U.S. National Base Pay Range: $59,200 - $98,600. Geographic differentials may apply in some locations to better reflect local market rates. Base Pay Range for CO is $59,200 - $98,600. Base Pay Range for IL is $62,100 - $103,500. Base Pay Range for Chicago, IL is $65,100 - $108,500. Base Pay Range for MD is $62,100 - $103,500. Base Pay Range for NY is $65,100 - $108,500. Base Pay Range for New York City is $71,000 - $118,300. Base Pay Range for Rochester, NY is $59,200 - $98,600. Base Pay Range for OH is $56,200 - $93,700. Base Pay Range for NJ is $69,916- $111,684. Base Pay Range in Toronto, ON: $62,000 - $103,300 (CAD). This posting is for an existing vacancy. Application deadline is 02/23/2026.
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Purpose of Role Reporting to the Global Head of Legislation, 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. The role provides leadership and detailed analysis on source identification, content acquisition, conversion standards, and publication workflows to ensure legislative content meets defined user needs and the global product strategy. They act as a central point of editorial expertise, ensuring highquality, AI-ready legislative datasets across diverse jurisdictions. The role will provide end-to-end oversight across editorial workstreams, partner closely with GTO on tooling and workflow optimisation, define CMS requirements, and deliver clear editorial estimates and requirements into planning and sprint ceremonies. AI fluency is essential, as the role contributes to the modernisation of legislative workflows and the integration of automation and advanced technologies.
Key Responsibilities
Act as the primary SME for legislation across North America and Canada, maintaining deep knowledge of local frameworks while understanding global legislative approaches
Working with the Legislation editorial team, 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
Working with key stakeholders, 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, pointin time rules and metadata
Produce highquality 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
Coordinate editorial expertise across multiple concurrent projects, ensuring consistency, accuracy and compliance with global editorial standards
Lead and participate in agile ceremonies, ensuring clear articulation of editorial requirements to PMs, BAs, developers, QA and other contributors
Manage crossworkstream dependencies from acquisition through to publication
Collaborate with colleagues across Editorial, Technology, Product, Commercial, GTO and regional leadership to ensure alignment and remove delivery blockers
Required Qualifications
Law degree (or equivalent)
Practice experience in legislative or regulatory work (desirable)
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
Working Conditions
Full-time, hybrid or homeworking, position, global collaboration across time zones
Occasional travel may be required for strategic meetings or training
U.S. National Base Pay Range: $59,200 - $98,600. Geographic differentials may apply in some locations to better reflect local market rates. Base Pay Range for CO is $59,200 - $98,600. Base Pay Range for IL is $62,100 - $103,500. Base Pay Range for Chicago, IL is $65,100 - $108,500. Base Pay Range for MD is $62,100 - $103,500. Base Pay Range for NY is $65,100 - $108,500. Base Pay Range for New York City is $71,000 - $118,300. Base Pay Range for Rochester, NY is $59,200 - $98,600. Base Pay Range for OH is $56,200 - $93,700. Base Pay Range for NJ is $69,916- $111,684. Base Pay Range in Toronto, ON: $62,000 - $103,300 (CAD). This posting is for an existing vacancy. Application deadline is 02/23/2026.
We know your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. We are delighted to offer country specific benefits. Click here to access benefits specific to your location.
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 know by completing our Applicant Request Support Form or please contact 1-855-833-5120.
Criminals may pose as recruiters asking for money or personal information. We never request money or banking details from job applicants. Learn more about spotting and avoiding scams here.
Please read our Candidate Privacy Policy.
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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