Manager, Drafting Strategy - LexisNexis RISK Solutions : Job Details

Manager, Drafting Strategy page is loadedManager, Drafting StrategyApply locations North Carolina Raleigh, NC New York, NY time type Full time posted on Posted Yesterday job requisition id R98053

About our Team

LexisNexis 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.

About the Role

As a Drafting Strategy Manager, you'll be at the forefront of redefining how legal professionals draft documents—leveraging the power of generative AI to streamline workflows, elevate quality, and transform the practice of law. You'll help shape the future of LexisNexis's AI-driven drafting solutions across the U.S., Canada, and the U.K. This high-impact, cross-functional role is ideal for a strategic, results-oriented self-starter passionate about AI, legal tech, and customer-centered innovation. You'll lead initiatives that drive product innovation, market growth, and customer value—collaborating with product, content, segment, marketing, and sales teams to execute a forward-looking drafting strategy.

Responsibilities

• Shape the global AI-driven legal drafting strategy, identifying and executing organic and inorganic opportunities—including innovation partnerships and acquisitions—that accelerate LexisNexis's leadership in generative AI for legal professionals
• Drive AI product and content investment decisions by synthesizing market trends, customer feedback, and competitive intelligence; develop business cases that advance differentiated, AI-powered drafting experiences
• Collaborate with product and content teams to develop, launch, and grow innovative AI-powered drafting solutions, ensuring alignment with customer workflows and strategic vision
• Champion the voice of the legal professional, by deeply understanding transactional and litigation drafting workflows to guide internal product and strategy decisions
• Partner cross-functionally with Segment, Marketing, and Sales to support go-to-market strategies, including pricing, packaging, and positioning that effectively communicate the value proposition
• Conduct deep market and competitive analysis with a focus on AI trends and emerging technologies, identify unmet customer needs, and proactively explore strategic priorities
• Evaluate partnership/alliance and acquisition opportunities and lead relationship-building with third parties

Requirements

• Product management, strategy, consulting or similar experience required
• JD or experience in legal practice, legal tech or document drafting workflows strongly preferred
• Proven track record of developing and executing strategic initiatives—ideally involving AI, SaaS, or legal technology
• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to interpret both qualitative insight and quantitative data to drive decisions
• Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate across cross-functional teams and leadership levels
• Experience navigating matrixed organizations and working across product, content, marketing, and commercial teams
• Comfort with tools for analysis, collaboration and presentation (e.g. Excel, PowerPoint, Copilot, AI/LLM chat interfaces)
• Location-flexible: NYC tri-state area preferred, will consider remote

Key candidate qualities include

• Strategic and results-driven with a strong ability to prioritize, execute, and deliver impact in a fast-moving environment
• Proactive and resourceful problem solver, comfortable navigating uncertainty and applying structured thinking to complex challenges
• Adaptable and curious with a growth mindset and a desire to learn
• Comfort with ambiguity – able to break down complex problems and deal with ambiguity to drive problem solving and outcomes
• Organizationally savvy, able to collaborate across formal and informal networks to influence and align stakeholders
• Strong communicator and collaborator, skilled at presenting complex ideas clearly and building trust across cross-functional teams

Work in a way that works for you

We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organization. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave and study assistance, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.

Working for you

We know that your wellbeing and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:

• Health Benefits: Comprehensive, multi-carrier program for medical, dental and vision benefits
• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with match and an Employee Share Purchase Plan
• Wellbeing: Wellness platform with incentives, Headspace app subscription, Employee Assistance and Time-off Programs
• Short-and-Long Term Disability, Life and Accidental Death Insurance, Critical Illness, and Hospital Indemnity
• Family Benefits, including bonding and family care leaves, adoption and surrogacy benefits
• Health Savings, Health Care, Dependent Care and Commuter Spending Accounts
• Up to two days of paid leave each to participate in Employee Resource Groups and to volunteer with your charity of choice

About the Business

LexisNexis Legal & Professional provides legal, regulatory, and business information and analytics that help customers increase their productivity, improve decision-making, achieve better outcomes, and advance the rule of law around the world. As a digital pioneer, the company was the first to bring legal and business information online with its Lexis and Nexis services.

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LexisNexis Legal & Professional is a leading global provider of legal, regulatory and business information and analytics that help customers increase productivity, improve decision-making and outcomes, and advance the rule of law around the world. We help lawyers win cases, manage their work more efficiently, serve their clients better and grow their practices. We assist corporations in better understanding their markets and preventing bribery and corruption within their supply chains. We partner with leading global associations and customers to help collect evidence against war criminals and provide tools to combat human trafficking. We endeavour to advance the rule of law across the world.Our teams are combining unparalleled legal and business information with analytics and technology to advance what's possible for the way our customers work and to advance what's possible in the world by strengthening the rule of law.