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, which serves customers in more than 150 countries with 11,800 employees worldwide, is part of RELX (http://www.relx.com), a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers. Our company has been a long-time leader in deploying AI and advanced technologies to the legal market to improve productivity and transform the overall business and practice of law, deploying ethical and powerful generative AI solutions with a flexible, multi-model approach that prioritizes using the best model from today’s top model creators for each individual legal use case. The company employs over 2,000 technologists, data scientists, and experts to develop, test, and validate solutions in line with RELX Responsible AI Principles (https://stories.relx.com/responsible-ai-principles/index.html).

About the Role

As a News Taxonomist (Senior Data Discovery and Enrichment Expert I), you will help shape how global news and business content is structured, discovered, and understood. Working with advanced taxonomy frameworks and AI-supported workflows, you will play a key role in improving classification accuracy, content relevance, and insight generation across LexisNexis products.

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 maintain taxonomy relevance

• Research and define new concepts, ensuring clarity and consistency

• Use AI tools to support knowledge work and taxonomy workflows, and assess 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

• Demonstrated interest in global news, current events, business, economics, or geopolitics

• Strong research capabilities and an aptitude for quickly understanding unfamiliar topics

• Excellent command of language, including the ability to distinguish subtle conceptual nuances

• Strong attention to detail and consistency

• Understanding of AI capabilities and how they can be leveraged safely and ethically in knowledge work

• Customer-centric mindset

• Experience in taxonomy development, metadata management, or content classification

• Good technical ability and an aptitude for learning proprietary taxonomy systems

• Knowledge of Agile working methodologies

• Proficiency in additional languages

• Experience working in remote or distributed team environments

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 Pattern

Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive.

About the Business

LexisNexis Legal & Professional® provides legal, regulatory, and business information and analytics that help customers increase their productivity, improve decision-making, achieve better outcomes, and advance the rule of law around the world. As a digital pioneer, the company was the first to bring legal and business information online with its Lexis® and Nexis® services.