Senior Legal Editor Jobs (NOW HIRING)

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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 employment benefits, including COBRA, healthcare insurance, and retirement, as well as HIPAA as it relates to employer obligations. The Senior Legal Editor serves as a resource to the content team, and creates, edits, and manages the content for multiple online and print products, webinars, and online learning. 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:

• 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
• Upload relevant content to applicable digital properties through the content management system and ensure content displays and functions correctly
• Determine content for assigned digital products, including the creation of a long-term editorial calendar and managing deadlines
• Adhere to strict deadlines and product management requirements for all assigned print products
• 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
• Meet frequently with product, production, sales and marketing staff to discuss projects and resolve problems
• Represent the products and services in customer and prospect engagements, including onsite at internal conferences and industry events
• 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
• Maintain an awareness of and adherence to company guidelines for messaging, tone, style, and editorial process
• Commit to continuous learning to gain proficiency and remain proficient in all assigned topic areas

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

• Ownership and Execution – Demonstrates a sense of ownership to drive issues to closure, maximizes the existing processes while continuously pursuing ways to improve efficiencies, sets aggressive goals, monitors progress, and delivers results, seizes more opportunities than others
• 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
• Managing Ambiguity and 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

• Background in employment law, preferably benefits (including health insurance and retirement), COBRA, HIPAA, Social Security and Unemployment Compensation
• Strong familiarity with HR concepts
• Demonstrated ability to discern customer needs and envision multiple solutions
• Ability to drive multiple initiatives simultaneously and meet multiple deadlines
• Self-motivated team mentor
• Strong verbal, written, analytical, research, and communication skills
• Demonstrated ability in time management, multitasking, and project management
• Attention to detail, accuracy
• Strong organizational skills and ability to work in a highly collaborative environment
• Ability to think logically, classify content, and apply taxonomy
• Ability to write clearly for an HR audience
• Proficient in Microsoft Office

• JD degree
• 10 or more years’ experience in working with benefits-related 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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