North America Legislation Content Specialist

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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 high quality, AI-ready legislative datasets across diverse jurisdictions.

The role will provide end-to-end oversight across editorial work streams, 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, pointintime 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 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
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* 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
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