Are you interested in the law and publishing – do you want to join the world leader in providing trusted legal, tax and regulatory content to professionals and academia?

Thomson Reuters is a world leader in trusted, reliable, unbiased news and information. Our team provides the content that supports our customers’ pursuit of justice, truth and transparency.

This is a full-time role, with a flexible hybrid working environment, based in Hong Kong, where you will work with a team of enthusiastic Content Managers on a range of online products, journals, books and other content.

About The Role:

In this opportunity as Legal Editor, you will be responsible for: :

• Coordinating of end-to-end publishing activities: commissioning new content, author management (including contract preparation, liaison re payments), content review, scheduling of updates, vendor liaison, product administration, co-ordination of off-shore teams and general troubleshooting (eg Content Management System issues, uploading, print preparation).
• Working with offshore editorial production teams and vendors, for assigned content sets and ensuring production schedules are met.
• Coordinating external and internal resources to implement annual/long term planning of assigned content sets, eg preparatory work for new content/editions, monitoring key developments and briefing stakeholders/authors.
• Consulting and negotiating with content providers/authors regarding schedules, style and format of material, delivery benchmarks as required.
• Driving resolution of a broad range of problems relating to processing and production of assigned content sets.
• Responding with speed and clarity to customer queries and requests.

About You:

You’re a fit for the role of Legal Editor if your background includes:

• Editorial and publishing experience (knowledge of copy editing, XML, content management systems for print and online activities, author management, publishing life cycles).
• Stakeholder management – author management, working closely with offshore teams and external vendors, strong customer awareness.
• Excellent communication skills – the ability to communicate effectively across teams.
• Understanding of the legal system in Hong Kong.
• Research skills, commissioning, content curation
• English is essential, traditional Chinese or simplified Chinese would be highly regarded.

What’s in it For You?

Join us to inform the way forward with the latest AI solutions and address real-world challenges in legal, tax, compliance, and news. Backed by our commitment to continuous learning and market-leading benefits, you’ll be prepared to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future. This includes:

• Industry-Leading Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
• Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, and hybrid model, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.
• Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow’s challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.
• Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for inclusion, innovation, and customer-focus. Our eleven business resource groups nurture our culture of belonging across the diverse backgrounds and experiences represented across our global footprint.
• Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.
• Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.

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Do you want to be part of a team helping re-invent the way knowledge professionals work? How about a team that works every day to create a more transparent, just and inclusive future? At Thomson Reuters, we’ve been doing just that for almost 160 years. Our industry-leading products and services include highly specialized information-enabled software and tools for legal, tax, accounting and compliance professionals combined with the world’s most global news services – Reuters. We help these professionals do their jobs better, creating more time for them to focus on the things that matter most: advising, advocating, negotiating, governing and informing.

We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments that celebrate diversity and inclusion. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.

Accessibility

As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.

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