Senior Legal Editor Jobs

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Job Summary:

The Senior Legal Editor is responsible for ensuring that high-quality content is produced in a variety of formats, across multiple products for an HR audience. This position requires a JD and a strong familiarity with HR concepts and employment law, preferably with experience related to leave, workers’ compensation, and/or unemployment compensation issues. The Senior Legal Editor serves as a resource to the content team, and creates, edits, and manages the content for multiple digital products, webinars, and employment law compliance inquiries. The role requires delving into multiple topic areas to break down complex ideas into simple terms. The Senior Legal Editor must understand how to bring value to the customer through instructional/guidance-oriented content. Qualified candidates should be comfortable researching and writing about complex HR issues, interacting with customers, and collaborating and coordinating with team members across multiple locations.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

• Develop expertise for assigned segments, including audience composition, customer needs and driving forces that affect them (e.g. regulations, best practices)
• Maintain an awareness of and adherence to company guidelines for messaging, tone, style, and editorial process
• Write and edit clear, informative, and engaging content to be used in a variety of customer solutions, primarily in answering employment law questions from customers without providing legal advice
• Meet frequently with product, production, sales and marketing staff to discuss projects and resolve problems
• Determine content for assigned digital products, including the creation of a long-term editorial calendar and managing deadlines
• Upload relevant content to applicable digital properties through the content management system and ensure content displays and functions correctly
• Adhere to strict deadlines and budget requirements for all assigned products
• Propose new product ideas in your area(s) of expertise across all product lines, and oversee all content-related phases of the new products process, including conducting research, writing proposals, and presenting the finished concept
• Represent the products and services in customer and prospect engagements, including onsite at internal conferences and industry events
• Collaborate with team members and across departments (including marketing, product, production and development) to maintain content standards, implement content strategies, and ensure customer needs and deadlines are met

Additional Responsibilities:

• Identify areas for new content development to increase value of current customer solutions
• Ensure customer engagement and satisfaction with content

Critical Competencies:

• Ownership and Execution - Demonstrates a sense of ownership to drive issues to closure, maximizes the use of existing processes while continuously pursuing ways to improve efficiencies, sets aggressive goals, monitors progress, and delivers results, seizes more opportunities than others
• Manages Ambiguity & Change - Makes decisions with available information that align with strategy, embraces and manages change, challenges the status quo and champions new initiatives, comfortably handles risk and uncertainty
• Customer-Centric - Establishes and maintains effective relationships with customers, effectively aligns strategy with customer’s business, anticipates customer needs and sets high standards for customer service

The Individual:

• Demonstrated ability in time management, multitasking, and project management
• Ability to drive multiple initiatives simultaneously and meet multiple deadlines
• Strong organizational skills and ability to work in a highly collaborative environment
• Attention to detail, accuracy
• Strong familiarity with HR concepts
• Self-motivated team mentor
• Ability to think logically, classify content, and apply taxonomy
• Proficient in Microsoft Office
• Strong verbal, written, analytical, research, and communication skills
• Broad general knowledge in employment law, preferably including employee leave, worker’s compensation, and/or unemployment compensation
• Demonstrated ability to discern customer needs and envision multiple solutions

Qualifications:

• Ability to write clearly for an HR audience
• JD
• 7 or more years’ experience in working with employment law issues

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

All external applicants must be legally eligible to immediately work in the country of hire without current or future sponsorship.

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