RELX

Legislation Content Specialist

RELX

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: North Carolina • United States

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Salary

💰 $59,200 - $118,300 per year

About the role

  • 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, 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
  • 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 cross-workstream 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

Requirements

  • 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
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Hard Skills & Tools
legal researcheditorial roleslegislative content managementagile methodologiesdata modelingcontent strategyversioning requirementspublication workflowsAI toolsLLMs
Soft Skills
stakeholder communicationproject managementteam collaborationrisk identificationproblem-solvingleadershipadaptabilityattention to detailstrategic thinkingarticulation of requirements
Certifications
law degree