Legal Content Developer
Work at the intersection of law and tech: Leverage your legal expertise and love of tech to create legal content for our compliance tools.
About ComplyWith
ComplyWith makes the law clear for people who need to do things right.
Our vision is to be well-known as Aotearoa New Zealand’s legal compliance leader, simplifying legal complexity with easy-to-read content and pleasure-to-use software.
Our legal technology business works with over 180 Kiwi businesses, including regulators and industry leaders.
The working environment at ComplyWith encourages grounded achievers who love doing mahi that matters and getting stuff done. We’re confident, humble, and authentic. Find out more about working at ComplyWith on our careers page.
Get a taste of what we do at ComplyWith here.
We offer a unique opportunity to join Aotearoa New Zealand's fast-growing SaaS sector. At ComplyWith we pride ourselves on an awesome working environment:
- We do an honest week's work - no long hours or late nights
- We empower each other to take on responsibility - you'll be supported to grow your career and skillset.
About the job
You’ll use your legal expertise, customer-focused perspective, and plain language writing skills to create legal content for our ComplyWatch and Legal Compliance tools.
You’ll interact with a wide variety of laws (including those for local and central government, electricity companies, universities, ports, trusts, and charities), the parliamentary process, and other regulatory processes.
This role will suit someone who enjoys diving into different areas of the law and keeping up to date with the latest legal developments.
Reporting to the Head of Content Development, you’ll have opportunities to grow your career with support from our highly experienced and skilled legal professionals. This unique role at the intersection of law and technology allows for more autonomy than a typical junior legal role.
This is a full-time role in our small and collaborative Content Team, based in our Auckland office in Ellerslie.
What you’ll be doing
Your work will include:
- Monitoring laws relevant to our customers’ legal compliance obligations and writing clear, easy-to-read change processes and developments for our ComplyWatch tool. This will include:
o Staying on top of law changes across multiple sectors, and using your legal skills and the latest AI tools to identify changes that affect our customers
o Translating law changes into concise, user-friendly, and plain language information
o Keeping the broader ComplyWith team informed about key legal updates and trends.
- Helping prepare, review, and update plain language content for a range of different sectors for our Legal Compliance tool (with a focus on smaller law changes). This will include:
o Drafting clear and concise compliance statements, and informative and well-structured commentaries for each compliance statement
o Researching and locating guidance resources
o Updating guidance resources when required
o Preparing descriptions of legal changes for our clarity of change feature.
- You’ll also work closely with other team members to contribute to our drive to continuously improve our legal content and internal team processes.
There may be some travel to our head office in Wellington. Usually this isn’t overnight and is about once a quarter.
How you’ll know you’re successful
You know you’re doing a great job when:
- You receive positive feedback and are highly valued for your responsiveness, attention to detail, and impact
- You organise and balance your workload effectively, with a proactive and adaptable approach
- You’re an expert in our Content Management System
- You demonstrate strong judgment on what matters most to our customers
- You’re taking on new responsibilities and showing initiative as your role in the business grows.
What you’ll bring
We’re looking for a person who has a flexible approach and can grow their legal career with ComplyWith.
The ideal candidate will demonstrate the following:
- A law degree with a strong academic record, preferably with honours
- Up to 3 years of legal experience (while legal experience is preferred, it’s not a prerequisite for an outstanding candidate)
- Ability to conduct thorough legal research and quickly analyse the implications of legislative changes
- Excellent written communication skills, with an ability to write in plain language for non-legally qualified people
- Great time and process management skills, with the ability to learn and apply new processes and systems
- A problem-solver with a drive to learn and take on new challenges in a collaborative and practical way, embracing opportunities to use new technologies to help where possible
- A customer-focused mindset, understanding that the end goal is to make compliance simpler for our customers
- An ability to work independently within a close-knit team and ‘pull together’ as a team when the pressure is on
- A desire and ability to work in a way that’s aligned with our Operating Principles. We do our very best to be:
o Simplicity-driven
o People-centred
o Grounded achievers
o Autonomous collaborators
o Forever innovating
To find out more, check out the How we roll section on our About Us page.
How to apply
To apply, please email your cover letter, CV, and academic transcript to [email protected]. We’ll review applications as they come in.
If you don’t quite meet the requirements but think you’d be a great fit for the role, we’d still love to hear from you.
