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 growing legal technology business works with over 180 Kiwi businesses, including many of the 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.
Get a taste of what we do at ComplyWith here .
We offer a unique opportunity to join a growing company in 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 - long hours or late nights aren’t the norm
- We empower each other to take on responsibility
- Get involved in the interface between the law and technology.
About the job
In this role, you’ll use your legal expertise, people-focused perspective, and plain language writing skills to create legal compliance content for our Legal Compliance tool.
This role reports to our Head of Content Development and is part of our Content Team based in Ellerslie, Auckland. This is a full-time role.
While our preference is someone full-time based in Auckland, we will consider standout candidates who wish to work remotely or work part-time (at least 30 hours a week).
What you’ll be doing
Your primary role is preparing, reviewing, and updating plain language content for legislation applying to a range of different industries and sectors for our Legal Compliance tool.
You’ll learn our content development process so that you can :
Quickly develop a comprehensive understanding of the compliance obligations in a piece of legislationDevelop a customer-focused structure for presenting the compliance contentDraft clear and concise obligation statementsDraft informative and well-structured explanatory commentaries for each obligation statementResearch and locate guidance resources for the legislationPeer review content drafted by other ComplyWith Content Team membersAssist with updating content as part of our continuous improvement journey or because of law changesIdentify opportunities to improve our content and the development process.You’ll also :
Contribute to process and team efficienciesShare your legal expertise with the wider business, including our customer- facing Customer Experience Team..There may be some travel to our main 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’re able to efficiently create legal compliance content for a range of legislation that is customer-focused and aligns with our content development guidelines.You’ve become an expert in our content management system (CMS) and other technologies used in our content development process.You receive positive feedback and are highly valued by the team for your responsiveness and impact.You actively seek feedback and can demonstrate how you’ve applied it.You start taking on more and more responsibilities in your role.What you’ll bring
The ideal candidate will demonstrate the following :
A law degree with a strong academic record, preferably with honoursAt least 4 years of legal experience, ideally in private practice and in-house across a range of legal areasAn ability to conduct thorough legal research and quickly analyse the implications of legislative changesExcellent written communication skills, with an ability to write in plain language for non-legally qualified peopleA growth mindset, with the ability to reflect on and apply feedback, and a commitment to personal development and continuous improvementProblem-solving skills with a drive to learn and take on new challenges in a collaborative and practical way, embracing opportunities to use new technologiesA people-focused mindset, understanding that the end goal is to make compliance simpler for the people who work in our customer organisationsAn ability to work independently within a close-knit team and ‘pull together’ as a team when the pressure is onA desire and ability to work in a way that’s aligned with our Operating Principles. We do our very best to be :Simplicity-driven
People-centredGrounded achieversAutonomous collaboratorsForever innovatingTo find out more about our Operating Principles, check out the How we roll section on our About Us page .
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.We’ll review applications as they come in.#J-18808-Ljbffr