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Senior News Taxonomist
Senior Taxonomist – Legal and News
Do you have a passion for global news, emerging topics, and the power of language to shape how information is discovered? Are you excited to apply your analytical skills to develop taxonomies and enhance AI-driven content experiences?
About Our Team
LexisNexis Legal & Professional, serving customers in over 150 countries with 11,800 employees globally, is part of RELX (relx.com). We lead the way in deploying AI-driven technologies to transform the legal sector, delivering ethical and powerful generative AI solutions by adopting a flexible multi-model approach. Our team of more than 2,000 technologists, data scientists, and experts develops, tests, and validates solutions aligned with the RELX Responsible AI Principles (responsible-ai-principles).
About the Role
As a News Taxonomist (Senior Data Discovery and Enrichment Expert I), you will shape how global news and business content is structured, discovered, and understood. Leveraging advanced taxonomy frameworks and AI-supported workflows, you’ll enhance classification accuracy, content relevance, and insight generation across LexisNexis products.
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Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain taxonomy structures across subjects, industries, geographies, people, and events
- Create and refine classification rules, including synonyms, variants, and scope guidance, using proprietary systems
- Review and revise classification to optimise precision and recall
- Analyse global news and business content to identify emerging topics and ensure taxonomy relevance
- Research and define new concepts, prioritising clarity and consistency
- Utilise AI tools to support taxonomy workflows, assessing outputs for quality and accuracy
- Contribute to standards, documentation, and best practices
Requirements
- Relevant degree or equivalent experience in library, information, or knowledge-focused work
- Strong interest in global news, current events, business, economics, or geopolitics
- Excelllent research skills and aptitude for absorbing unfamiliar topics rapidly
- Strong linguistic command, including the ability to discern subtle conceptual nuances
- Attention to detail and consistency in classification work
- Deep understanding of AI capabilities and ethical deployment principles
- Customer-centric mindset
- Experience in:
- Taxonomy development
- Metadata management
- Content classification
- Good technical ability and adaptability to proprietary taxonomy systems
- knowledge of Agile methodologies
- Fluency in additional languages (preferred)
- Experience working in remote or distributed team environments
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Work in a Way That Works for You
We prioritise a healthy work-life balance, offering:
- Flexible working hours for productivity alignment
- Wellbeing initiatives
- Shared parental leave
- Study assistance and sabbaticals
- Support for both immediate and long-term goals
About the Business
LexisNexis Legal & Professional® delivers legal, regulatory, and business information and analytics to help customers enhance productivity, improve decision-making, and advance the rule of law worldwide. As a digital pioneer, the company was the first to bring legal and business information online with Lexis® and Nexis® services.
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