Job Description
About Frontiers
At Frontiers, our purpose is simple yet ambitious: to make science open. We believe open science empowers the global scientific community to accelerate discovery and develop the solutions needed for healthy lives on a healthy planet.
We are one of the world’s largest and most influential open-access research publishers. Every article we publish is peer-reviewed and quality-certified, ensuring research is accessible to everyone, everywhere. To date, Frontiers research has been viewed over 4 billion times, demonstrating the real-world impact of science without barriers.
Joining Frontiers means being part of a global, mission-driven organization at the intersection of science, technology, and innovation — working alongside passionate colleagues who care deeply about advancing knowledge for the benefit of society.
To learn more about our impact and culture, please watch this video
The Role:
Production Specialists are experts in production with several sub-specializations to oversee the final stages of the publishing process, delivering machine-readable online publications. They work with Publishing Managers, Production to ensure high quality and the efficient publishing of articles accepted in peer review.
Key Responsibilities:
- Overseeing the entire production process, ensuring that each article is meticulously formatted according to our style guidelines, formats, and policies .
- Reviewing the final versions of papers to ensure that they meet our requirements for publication .
- Providing ongoing and continuous feedback to typesetters, where necessary, to improve typesetting processes through thorough root cause analysis.
- Engaging with authors to find solutions to their needs and requests while ensuring publisher policies, industry best practice, and technical requirements are adhered to.
- Publishing articles online and in repositories, ensuring their discoverability.
- Working towards their individual KPIs, with their managers, to support continuous professional development.
- Continuous work on Production and Typesetting guidelines to ensure optimal and streamline results.
- Responsible for journal publication success – publication speed, quality of final production and publication volume.
Knowledge, Skills & Experience that will help you thrive in the role:
- Ability to manage all phases of the production process (copyediting, formatting, proofing, validating online PDF and XML/HTML formats) or willingness to learn.
- Understanding of the Open Access publishing landscape .
- Excellent communication skills in written and spoken English.
- Time management skills.
- Organisational skills.
- Proactive attitude to problem solving and daily tasks.
- Excellent customer service skills.
- Ability to quickly and accurately manage large volumes of information and to take timely corrective actions to resolve bottlenecks.
- Experience in mark-up languages (Adobe Acrobat, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Photoshop and InDesign) and experience working with CRMs such as Salesforce would be an advantage.
- Publishing experience would be a plus.