Content Editor - Texts - Legal Publishing

About the role

As a Content Editor - Texts, you’ll manage a portfolio of LexisNexis titles—commissioning, developing and maintaining content that meets the evolving needs of the legal profession.

You’ll work closely with authors, legal experts, and internal teams to ensure every publication is accurate, current and commercially aligned.
From commissioning new works to managing revisions and author relationships, you’ll play a key role in driving both content excellence and revenue growth.

This is a hybrid role, offering flexibility while being part of a collaborative and highly regarded publishing team.

This is a permanent full-time role based in either Sydney or Melbourne with combined home/office-based arrangements to have flexible work-life balance.

Responsibilities

• Commission and develop new legal texts or editions informed by customer insights and market research.

• Maintain an assigned portfolio of publications, ensuring content is accurate, current and aligned with legislative updates.

• Manage author relationships—including onboarding, training, and contractual discussions.

• Oversee project timelines, budgets and delivery milestones from proposal through to publication.

• Collaborate with marketing, editorial operations and offshore production teams to ensure seamless publishing processes.

• Research market trends and competitor activity to identify new title opportunities.

• Prepare business cases, forecasts and proposals for new or revised works.

• Support continuous improvement by streamlining editorial workflows and processes.

Requirements:

You are an organised, detail-driven editor with a passion for high-quality legal publishing. You enjoy working across teams and building strong relationships with authors and internal stakeholders.

You will bring:

• Tertiary qualifications (Law, Publishing, Communications, or similar).

• 1–2 years’ experience in a commissioning, editorial, or content-management role—ideally within legal or academic publishing.

• Strong legal comprehension and research skills.

• Excellent written and verbal communication and stakeholder-management skills.

• Proven project-management capability with ability to balance multiple deadlines.

• Commercial acumen and familiarity with forecasting and P&L principles.

• Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

Work in a way that works for you

We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organisation. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and sabbaticals, 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:

• Collaborate with experts and industry leaders across the legal and publishing sectors.

• 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

• Retail discounts and cashback offers

• Global discounts and free wellbeing & learning classes

• Electric Vehicle Novated Leasing