Senior Director - Market Sensing & Intelligence

Role Overview

Lexis Nexis Legal & Professional is seeking a strategic and analytically rigorous Market & Competitive Intelligence Senior Director to lead forward‑looking insight and rapid market & competitive response across the AI‑workflow ecosystem.

This leader will own enterprise‑wide Market & Competitive Intelligence for AI Workflows at both a strategic & operational level, ensuring early recognition of emerging trends and issues, and rapid fast‑follow response to competitive market positioning. The role will deliver actionable insights that help shape product innovation, commercial strategy, pricing, positioning, and go‑to‑market execution in an increasingly workflow‑focused legal AI market.

As generative AI, agentic workflows, and automation reshape legal work, competitive advantage is shifting from information access to workflow acceleration and decision superiority. This role will ensure Lexis Nexis understands not just what competitors are building but how they are redefining workflow speed, integration depth, and enterprise defensibility as well as how they go to market and drive audience and customer engagement.

The successful candidate will not only report competitor activity but help define how Lexis Protégé should create sustainable competitive advantage in advance of or in rapid response to market shifts. A legal background would be a strong advantage, as would experience in the technology industry.

• Develop and lead a comprehensive competitive intelligence framework across legal research, analytics, AI drafting, and workflow automation platforms.
• Focus specifically on competitive positioning and evolution of AI‑native legal workflow tools that compete directly or indirectly with Lexis Protégé.
• Track competitors’ product launches, AI advancements, pricing strategies, partnerships, acquisitions, and go‑to‑market shifts.

• Workflow speed
• Automation depth
• Knowledge orchestration
• Enterprise integration
• Go‑to‑market (GTM) motion
• Spot emerging trends early and elevate clear calls to action that enable Lexis Nexis to move ahead of competitors or respond quickly to market developments.
• Build and maintain strong networks with senior players across the legal market to generate advanced insight and strengthen early‑warning intelligence capabilities.

• Establish a rapid response capability for major competitive moves, product launches, and market shifts.
• Deliver timely analysis and positioning guidance to Product, Marketing, and Commercial teams following significant competitor announcements or market developments.
• Coordinate cross‑functional response playbooks addressing:
• Competitive product launches
• AI capability announcements
• Strategic partnerships and acquisitions
• Competitive market messaging, including response frameworks and message libraries aligned to claims and positioning from market competitors.
• Maintain an always‑on market sensing capability that enables Lexis Nexis to anticipate and respond to competitive threats and opportunities ahead of the market.

• Analyze how AI‑native entrants are reframing legal work around automation and agentic workflows.
• Assess where workflow acceleration is creating real, measurable customer advantage versus marketing narrative.

• Eliminate workflow friction
• Increase research‑to‑drafting quality & speed
• Enhance decision confidence and defensibility
• Improve matter throughput

• Lead development of competitive positioning frameworks that clearly articulate Lexis Protégé’s workflow advantage in the evolving legal AI ecosystem.
• Partner closely with Product & Marketing leadership to ensure new capabilities launch with strong market differentiation, clear value articulation, and competitive awareness.
• Drive stronger market messaging around Lexis Nexis testing, adoption, and deployment of LLM technology, ensuring the organization communicates its progress with greater quality, quantity, and market impact.
• Ensure the…