Associate Director, Production

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