Manager, Drafting Strategy

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