Principal Product Manager, Patent Technology Classification

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 looking for a Principal of Product Management to lead the strategy and execution of our patent technology classification and taxonomy portfolio. This is a high-profile leadership role that will define how patent data is classified, understood, and leveraged worldwide. You’ll work at the intersection of AI/ML/LLMs, knowledge graphs, and semantic search, partnering closely with Engineering, Data Science, and Go-to-Market teams. Your mission: deliver accurate, explainable, and scalable AI-driven solutions that power the next generation of IP analytics and decision-making.

Responsibilities

• Define the Vision: Set the multi-year strategy and annual roadmaps for classification and taxonomy services, ensuring alignment with global IP standards and industry best practices.
• Lead AI Innovation: Drive the development of cutting-edge AI/ML/LLM models, knowledge graphs, and multilingual pipelines to transform how patent data is classified and enriched.
• Deliver Product Rigor: Lead discovery, problem framing, and prioritization; translate complex workflows into productized capabilities; run structured experimentation and A/B testing; define and monitor OKRs with dashboards and diagnostics.
• Advance MLOps & Technical Excellence: Establish evaluation frameworks (precision/recall, coverage, drift, calibration); set launch thresholds and guardrails; oversee model/version management, rollback policies, monitoring/alerting, SLA targets, and cost efficiency.
• Ensure Trust, Security & Compliance: Govern taxonomy stewardship, versioning, and data provenance; ensure compliance with SOC 2, ISO 27001, licensing, privacy, and Responsible AI standards; manage forums and playbooks for model risk, bias, and explainability.
• Influence the Ecosystem: Build executive-level relationships with IP offices, corporates, and law firms; shape industry standards; and articulate differentiated value in a competitive market.
• Accelerate Commercial Impact: Translate advanced AI capabilities into compelling customer outcomes, partnering with Sales and Customer Success to drive adoption, retention, and growth.
• Inspire and Develop Teams: Lead and mentor product managers, foster a high-performance culture, and oversee key vendor and data partnerships that expand the reach and impact of our portfolio.

What We Expect From You

• Proven leadership at scale: You have successfully led complex, high-impact product portfolios, influencing across global organizations at the Principal+ level.
• Deep AI/ML expertise: You bring hands-on experience delivering AI/ML/NLP/LLM-based products at scale; from training and deployment to monitoring, governance, and continuous improvement.
• Strategic vision with commercial acumen: You excel at shaping long-term product strategies while translating advanced technology into measurable business and customer outcomes.
• Executive presence and influence: You can communicate complex technical concepts to senior executives and external stakeholders, shaping industry conversations and standards.
• Inclusive, empowering leadership style: You build and mentor high-performing teams, fostering a culture of trust, accountability, and innovation.
• Entrepreneurial agility: You thrive in dynamic, high-visibility environments, balancing systematic analysis with decisive execution to accelerate results.

Qualifications

• Experience: Extensive experience in product management or adjacent leadership roles, with extensive experience driving platform, AI, and data-driven innovation. Proven success delivering AI/ML/NLP/LLM products at scale, including training, deployment, monitoring, and governance. Demonstrated ability to shape product portfolios that deliver measurable business impact, customer adoption, and revenue growth.
• Expertise: Mastery of technologies at the intersection of knowledge graphs, embeddings/semantic search, multilingual pipelines, and human-in-the-loop systems. Skilled at building business cases, ROI models, and API commercialization strategies that influence executive-level decisions. Strong grasp of Responsible AI, data provenance, and compliance standards, ensuring trust, explainability, and ethical use of technology.
• Leadership: Track record of mentoring and scaling high-performing product teams in complex global organizations. Recognized as an influencer in the IP and AI communities; through industry forums, standards engagement, or thought leadership. Inclusive and adaptive leadership style, with the ability to unite diverse stakeholders and drive alignment across global teams.
• Other: Advanced degree in engineering, data science, law (IP), or business preferred. Strong background in patent data, classification systems (CPC/IPC, USPC), and IP analytics workflows. Willingness to travel as required for customer, partner, and industry engagement.

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. 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 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.