Director of Communications

Are you excited about shaping the conversation around AI, innovation, and the future of the legal profession? Do you thrive on transforming complex technology stories into compelling narratives that influence customers, media, and industry perception? About our Team Lexis Nexis Legal & Professional, which serves customers in more than 150 countries with 11,800 employees worldwide, is part of RELX (), a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers.

Our company has been a long-time leader in deploying AI and advanced technologies to the legal market to improve productivity and transform the overall business and practice of law, deploying ethical and powerful generative AI solutions with a flexible, multi-model approach that prioritizes using the best model from today’s top model creators for each individual legal use case. The company employs over 2,000 technologists, data scientists, and experts to develop, test, and validate solutions in line with RELX Responsible AI Principles ().

About the Role As Director of Communications at Lexis Nexis Legal & Professional, you will help shape and drive our global corporate, AI, and technology leadership narrative. In this senior, highly visible role, you will combine excellent judgment with exceptional execution. You will move comfortably between providing strategic counsel, leading high-profile communications, and managing the detailed operational work needed to deliver consistently.

Drawing on your extensive global corporate communications experience, you will develop communications strategies, advise senior executives, identify reputational opportunities and risks, work with reporters, draft press releases and corporate messaging, and personally handle employee communications under tight deadlines. You will strengthen Lexis Nexis’s position as a global leader in legal AI and technology by developing compelling narratives, identifying news and thought leadership opportunities, and maintaining a consistent flow of high-quality communications.

You will be proactive, highly independent, precise, and relentlessly focused on results. You will also build strong relationships across the business, connect ideas, identify stories early, and turn them into meaningful communications opportunities. As an AI-native communications professional, you will use AI to improve the quality, speed, and scale of your work. This includes research, content development and review, information synthesis, and the creation of agents, skills, and other AI-enabled processes.

You will report to the VP, Communications and Global PR for Lexis Nexis Legal & Professional and work closely with the CEO of Lexis Nexis Legal and senior leaders across Product, Technology, Marketing, and Communications globally.

• Develop and execute corporate communications strategies that strengthen Lexis Nexis’s reputation and advance business priorities.
• Shape and drive the company’s external narrative around AI, technology, innovation and product leadership, with a focus on customer outcomes.
• Lead media strategy for major company announcements, product launches, partnerships, acquisitions, research, executive thought leadership and industry events.
• Create and manage a disciplined communications and content calendar focused on sustaining the company’s leadership position in AI, technology and legal innovation.
• Lead internal communications for Lexis Nexis Legal, connecting employees to business strategy, priorities and company direction.
• Lead the strategy, planning and execution of global employee town halls, including agenda development, CEO remarks and scripts, speaker coordination and presentation content.
• Use AI as an…