Legal Subject Matter Expert
Are you a legal professional interested in building the future of legal technology?
Do you want to use your legal background in an exciting alternative legal career?
About our Team
LexisNexis, a part of RELX, is a leading global provider of legal, regulatory, and business information. We help customers increase productivity and improve decision-making and outcomes. Our 10,500 experts and innovative tools help us shape a better world for our customers and communities.
About the Role
As a legal subject matter expert, you will play a pivotal role in the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools for the legal market. You will use your expertise in the legal domain to test and drive insights and recommendations to the business, that are critical to creating the best features and products for our customers.
Reporting to the Pacific Lead Data Discovery & Enrichment Expert, this is a full-time role working within a newly created permanent team. This role will be based in New Zealand, preferably either Auckland or Wellington with flexibility to work from home.
About the Data Discovery and Enrichment team
Data Discovery and Enrichment Experts are subject matter experts in the legal domain, playing a key role in leading the transformation of legal technology. They partner with data scientists, data engineers, and product managers to create cutting-edge artificial intelligence solutions with legal data. Data Discovery and Enrichment Experts provide annotation, evaluation, and feedback to their partners which are critical to the development of these solutions. Examples of the innovative AI initiatives that the Data Discovery and Enrichment Organisation contributes to can be found here: https://www.lexisnexis.com.au/en/products-and-services/lexis-plus-ai
Responsibilities
• Collaborate with DDE team members, product team, and data science team to plan AI review projects, including drafting initial prompt sets and ensuring sufficient time for review phases.
• Conduct detailed reviews of AI tool outputs, rate responses, and provide detailed feedback to the data science team for incremental improvements.
• Supervise and review the work of junior colleagues, including DDE I experts.
• Establish SME testing plans and ensure sufficient SME resources are in place.
• Provide annotation, evaluation, and feedback to data scientists, data engineers, and product managers.
• Execute best practices in creating and maintaining training data and relevance evaluations.
• Communicate actionable feedback and provide customer-focused insights.
Requirements
• Have a Law degree with experience (minimum 2 years) in a New Zealand legal practice role
• Be competent in advanced legal research and writing
• Have moderate professional experience in managing, coaching, and mentoring others
• Be a natural problem solver
• Have a customer-centric mindset
• Be able to manage highly complex projects
Work in a way that works for you
We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organization, with various flexible and remote working options available to employees.
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:
• Discounted Health plan rate and Optical Assistance
• Life assurance and income protection
• Option to buy additional Annual Leave days
• Employee Assistance Program
• Flexible working arrangements
• Benefits for you and your family
• Access to learning and development resources
About the Business
LexisNexis is a data and analytics company with 10,500 colleagues serving customers in more than 150 countries. We’re one of the largest information and analytics companies on the planet. We design solutions that help our customers increase productivity, improve decision-making and outcomes, and be more successful.
To learn more about opportunities with LexisNexis or RELX Global, join us here: https://www.lexisnexis.com.au/en https://www.relx.com/careers/join-us https://www.lexisnexis.com.au/en/products-and-services/lexis-plus-ai
We are looking to fill this role as soon as possible – apply now to be considered.
Thank you for your interest.
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Skills Required
- Law degree with minimum 2 years' experience in a New Zealand legal practice role
- Competent in advanced legal research and writing
- Moderate professional experience in managing, coaching, and mentoring others
- Natural problem solver
- Customer-centric mindset
- Ability to manage highly complex projects
- Based in New Zealand (preferably Auckland or Wellington) with flexibility to work from home
RELX Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about RELX and has not been reviewed or approved by RELX.
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Retirement Support — Retirement support is positioned as a meaningful part of total rewards through a 401(k) plan with matching contributions, alongside other financial protections such as life and disability coverage. Tuition reimbursement and share purchase access further broaden the financial value of the package beyond base salary.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Leave and time off breadth appears strong, with generous vacation allowances, mental health days, and options like sabbaticals and tiered PTO by tenure. Parental and caregiving leaves are described in detail, reinforcing time-away benefits as a standout component of the overall package.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellbeing and lifestyle benefits are supported by offerings such as mental health support (e.g., app access), EAP resources, gym-related perks, and wellness incentives. Flexible working hours and related work-life supports add to the perceived day-to-day value of benefits.
RELX Insights
What We Do
RELX is a global provider of information-based analytics for professional and business customers across industries. We help scientists make new discoveries, doctors and nurses improve the lives of patients and lawyers win cases. We prevent online fraud and money laundering, and help insurance companies evaluate and predict risk. Our events enable customers to learn about markets, source products and complete transactions. In short, we enable our customers to make better decisions, get better results and be more productive. We do this by leveraging a deep understanding of our customers to create innovative solutions which combine content and data with analytics and technology in global platforms. RELX serves customers in more than 180 countries and has offices in about 40 countries. It employs approximately 30,000 people of whom almost half are in North America. We operate in four major market segments: Scientific, Technical & Medical; Risk & Business Analytics; Legal; and Exhibitions.
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