Overview
At LexisNexis Intellectual Property Solutions (LNIP), our mission is to bring clarity to innovation by enabling innovators to make informed decisions, accelerate productivity, and achieve superior results. Every day, our team supports the development of technologies and processes that advance humanity. Helping our customers reach their goals is our primary focus—and our success is measured by the results we deliver for them.
We’re seeking a Director of Product Management to lead the strategy, portfolio, and execution for our Data & Content Platform, and Data Products powering the LexisNexis Intellectual Property patent analytics business. You will own multiyear vision and outcomes for content ingestion, normalization, knowledge/metadata platforms, and commercial data products (APIs, feeds, datasets) that enable research, analytics, and decisioning for IP professionals, R&D leaders, and legal teams worldwide.
You will manage a team of product leaders and SME’s, partner with Engineering, Data Science, and collaborate with Go-to-Market teams to deliver trusted, scalable, and cost-efficient data capabilities.
Scope & Ownership
* Portfolio leadership: End to end strategy for patent and related content: ingestion, ETL/ELT, enrichment, normalization, and surfacing across apps and APIs.
* Content platform: Roadmap for data lake/lakehouse, knowledge graph/ontology, metadata services, schema governance, data contracts, and lineage.
* Data products: Commercial datasets, bulk exports, APIs, event streams, and partner integrations, including pricing/packaging and SLAs.
* Data quality & trust: Frameworks for accuracy, completeness, coverage, freshness, deduplication, and explainability.
* People & org: Hire, develop, and lead PM managers/ICs; set standards and practices for platform and data product management.
Key Responsibilities
Strategy & Portfolio
* Define a 3 year strategy and annual roadmaps for Data Management, Content Platform, and Data Products, aligned to LN IP objectives.
* Lead portfolio investment decisions and business cases; optimize build/buy/partner choices (data sources, tooling, and services).
* Establish platform reusability and common services (ingestion, entity resolution, translation/OCR, classification alignment) to accelerate delivery across products.
Customer, Market & Ecosystem
* Build executive relationships with strategic customers and partners; translate complex data needs into clear platform and product outcomes.
* Track global IP office content (e.g. bibliographic, full text, legal status, citations, assignments, family, prosecution/litigation signals) and incorporate WIPO/EPO/USPTO updates into roadmaps.
* Evaluate the competitive landscape for IP data providers, enrichment vendors, and infrastructure platforms; identify differentiation in quality, coverage, latency, and TCO.
Content & Platform Delivery
* Own requirements for multi-jurisdiction ingestion (e.g., WIPO, EPO, USPTO, CNIPA, JPO, KIPO, and others), including file formats, schedules, rate limits, and licensing.
* Drive normalization and enrichment (assignee/inventor disambiguation, entity resolution, family building, citations, classifications IPC/CPC alignment, multilingual translation/OCR).
* Partner with Engineering on reliable, observable pipelines (monitoring, alerting, retries, backfills); set targets for throughput, latency, and recovery.
* Advance knowledge graph/ontology capabilities; govern schema evolution, versioning, and compatibility.
* Implement data governance: lineage, cataloguing, access controls, retention, and provenance (source, license, timestamp); uphold security and compliance (e.g., SOC 2, ISO 27001) and license obligations.
Data Products & Commercialization
* Define and grow external data products (APIs, datasets, feeds, events) and internal services that power applications, search, and analytics.
* Own pricing/packaging, SLAs, quotas, and usage metering; partner on GTM, enablement, and strategic deals/renewals.
* Establish product analytics and telemetry to drive adoption, reliability, and cost efficiency; lead A/B and partner pilots for new offerings.
Governance, Risk & Ethics
* Lead governance for content rights, licensing, and provenance; ensure compliant usage and redistribution.
* Create policies and review forums for Responsible AI and data ethics (bias, explainability, human override workflows) in enrichment and derived data.
People Leadership
* Set OKRs, competency frameworks, and career paths; scale best practices in data/platform product management.
* Foster a culture of customer obsession, reliability, and continuous improvement across platform and data teams.
Success Metrics (examples)
* Freshness & Coverage: % of jurisdictions meeting ingestion SLAs; % coverage of bibliographic/full text/legal status; average lag from source release.
* Quality & Trust: Entity resolution F1, deduplication rate, classification alignment accuracy, translation/OCR accuracy, lineage completeness.
* Reliability & Cost: Pipeline success rate, MTTR, on time backfills, cost per document/inference, storage and egress efficiency.
* Adoption & Revenue: API/feeds usage, dataset attach rate, ARR/NRR from data products, expansion in key customer segments.
* Velocity: Time to production for new sources/schemas, cycle time for taxonomy or schema changes, experiment throughput and win rate.
Qualifications
Required
* 12–15+ years in product management (or adjacent), including 5+ years managing managers or leading multi product/platform portfolios.
* Proven track record shipping large scale data platforms and commercial data products (APIs, datasets, feeds) with strong reliability and SLAs.
* Experience with content ingestion/normalization, knowledge graphs/ontologies, entity resolution, multilingual pipelines (OCR/translation), and data quality frameworks.
* Demonstrated capability in data governance (catalog, lineage, access, licensing), schema/version management, and security/compliance for enterprise customers.
* Strong commercial acumen: pricing/packaging, business cases, and partnership/vendor management; effective executive communication.
Preferred
* Domain expertise in patent and IP data, including IPC/CPC, legal status, family, and citations; familiarity with IP office processes.
* Experience with event streaming, data sharing/exchange models, and cost optimization in cloud data platforms.
* Advanced degree in engineering, data science, or business; publications or talks in data platform/IP forums.
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:
* Generous holiday allowance with the option to buy additional days
* Health screening, eye care vouchers and private medical benefits
* Wellbeing programs
* Life assurance
* Access to a competitive contributory pension scheme
* Save As You Earn share option scheme
* Travel Season ticket loan
* Electric Vehicle Scheme
* Optional Dental Insurance
* Maternity, paternity and shared parental leave
* Employee Assistance Programme
* Access to emergency care for both the elderly and children
* RECARES days, giving you time to support the charities and causes that matter to you
* Access to employee resource groups with dedicated time to volunteer
* Access to extensive learning and development resources
* Access to employee discounts scheme via Perks at Work
About LexisNexis Legal & Professional
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. LexisNexis Legal & Professional, which serves customers in more than 150 countries with 11,800 employees worldwide, is part of RELX, a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers.
About LexisNexis® Intellectual Property Solutions
LexisNexis® Intellectual Property Solutions brings clarity to innovation for businesses worldwide. We enable innovators to accomplish more by helping them make informed decisions, be more productive, comply with regulations, and ultimately achieve a competitive advantage for their business. Our broad suite of workflow and analytics solutions (LexisNexis® PatentSight+™, LexisNexis® Classification, LexisNexis® TechDiscovery, LexisNexis® IPlytics™, LexisNexis® PatentOptimizer®, LexisNexis® PatentAdvisor®, and LexisNexis® TotalPatent One®, LexisNexis® IP DataDirect), enables companies to be more efficient and effective at bringing meaningful innovations to our world. We are proud to directly support and serve these innovators in their endeavors to better humankind.
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