The Associate Director, Production plays a key leadership role in overseeing the end-to-end production workflow of the AACR’s ten peer-reviewed scientific journals. This leadership position ensures timely, accurate, and high-quality publication of journal content across multiple platforms by directing the production workflow, copyediting, and composition vendors, as well as freelance contractors.
Requirements
- Manage the full production lifecycle of the AACR’s scientific journals, including copyediting, typesetting, proofreading, and online publication.
- Develop and maintain efficient workflows and SOPs to ensure consistent quality and timeliness of journal publication.
- Supervise production staff, freelance contractors, and vendors; provide training, mentorship, and performance evaluations.
- Collaborate with publishing platform and operations colleagues, as well as with vendor teams, to optimize production processes and tools and to troubleshoot technical issues.
- Maintain and ensure adherence to journal style guides, workflows, and downstream indexing/abstracting requirements.
- Liaise with external vendors to closely manage contracts, timelines, and deliverables.
- Assist in budget planning and monitor production costs; generate reports on production metrics and KPIs.
- Work closely with editorial, marketing, and digital teams to align production goals with broader organizational objectives.
- Explore way to enrich processes/workflows in response to emerging standards, new technologies and evolving service needs.
- Additional duties as assigned.
Benefits
- Generous Paid Time Off
- 401k Matching
- Retirement Plan
- Visa Sponsorship
- Four Day Work Week
- Generous Parental Leave
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Relocation Assistance