Tax Accounting and Legal Content Manager

Overview

The organization is seeking a highly collaborative, detail-oriented Content Manager to join its Tax Team. This role focuses on developing, licensing, and advising on timely, high-quality accounting resources and tax legal content for accounting and tax legal industry customers.

Responsibilities

Tax Legal and Accounting Content Creation, Licensing, Procurement, and Management

• Conduct in-depth legal research and write and edit clear, concise, analytical, and practical tax legal content.
• Oversee the licensing and procurement of content for CPAs and accountants and potentially develop and maintain content for CPAs and accounting professionals.
• Analyze and interpret legislation, case law, rules/regs, legal news, and other related materials, and incorporate findings into new and existing online and print analytical and practical content.
• Write/edit high-quality articles/commentaries on current tax issues for use by practicing attorneys.
• Ensure accuracy, clarity, and consistency in legal content produced, and compliance with legal and editorial standards.

AI-Assisted Content Development

• Use generative and agentic AI, automation, and data to streamline content development and editorial processes for short- and long-form content.
• Craft prompts, evaluate AI outputs, and iterate to achieve optimal results.
• Track and monitor changes and trends in tax law and accounting, as well as advances in legal and accounting technology.

Project Management and Stakeholder Collaboration

• Collaborate with Editorial Directors, Legal Editors, and Product Managers to scope, outline, draft, edit, and quality check new analytical and practical content.
• Contribute to the strategy and execution of new content development, licensing, and content procurement to deliver high-quality products aligned with market needs.
• Continue developing expertise in accounting and tax law and in how practitioners, accounting firms, law firms, and market ecosystems operate.
• Identify and recruit authors and contractors from cultivated networks to create high-quality accounting and legal content, including:
  • Prospecting accounting and law firms and individual accountants/attorneys
  • Pitching projects
  • Negotiating author/contractor/licensing agreements
  • Recommending authors, organizations, and other qualified individuals to support market analysis and product research.

Continuous Improvement

• Contribute to cross-functional initiatives such as new product pilots, tool and process evaluations, and standards development.
• Support a forward-thinking approach to harnessing technology for developing, licensing, and procuring accounting and legal content.

Requirements

• Juris Doctor required; advanced tax law degree preferred.
• CPA designation REQUIRED.
• Significant accounting experience required.
• At least 2 years of tax legal practice experience or equivalent.
• At least 2 years of accounting experience or equivalent.
• Proven analytical, legal, and accounting research, and original writing skills; ability to interpret outputs from AI systems and integrate insights into legal content creation.
• Professional tax-specific legal and accounting analysis and writing experience preferred.
• Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation (EBEC) experience is preferred.
• Technical knowledge:
  • MS Office suite including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
  • Experience using LLMs to assist in drafting, summarizing, editing/revising
• Proficiency in Lexis+, Lexis+ AI, Protege or other legal research tools highly preferred; experience using data tools such as Tableau and Power BI a plus.
• Strong collaboration, communication, and relationship-building skills.

Compensation & Benefits

• Home based base pay range (Primary Location Base Pay Range): $104,800 - $174,700 (New York).
• Additional base pay ranges by location:
  • If performed in Colorado: $95,300 - $158,800
  • If performed in Illinois: $100,100 - $166,800
  • If performed in Chicago, IL: $104,800 - $174,700
  • If performed in Maryland: $100,100 - $166,800
  • If performed in New York City: $114,300 - $190,500
  • If performed in Rochester, NY: $95,300 - $158,800
  • If performed in New Jersey: $112,574 - $179,826
  • If performed in Ohio: $90,500 - $150,900
  • U.S. National Base Pay Range: $95,300 - $158,800 (geographic differentials may apply in some locations).
• Eligible for an annual incentive bonus.
• Benefits are country/location specific, with wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, and study assistance.

Location

• Primary Location: Home based - New York.
• Other listed locations include Colorado, Illinois, Chicago (IL), Maryland, New York City, Rochester (NY), New Jersey, and Ohio.

Application Details

• Application deadline: 01/31/2027.