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About the Role

The Manager, Peer Review Excellence, is a strategic leader responsible for the performance, governance, and continuous improvement of peer review and editorial workflows. This role provides leadership and guidance to ensure consistent and sustainable practices across editorial teams, vendors, and systems, partnering across the organization to advance efficient, high-quality peer review processes.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership for the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of peer review workflows across the journal portfolio.
• Serve as a subject matter expert for peer review workflow design, ensuring workflows support editorial quality, research integrity, and publishing best practices.
• Identify operational bottlenecks, maintain workflow documentation and standards, and drive process improvements.
• Serve as a key leader for vendor-supported editorial operations and peer review services, including vendor onboarding, performance management, SLA compliance, business reviews, and operational escalations.
• Develop performance dashboards and identify opportunities to improve service quality, efficiency, and value.
• Serve as a key leader in operational activities supporting manuscript tracking system migrations, including workflow design, business process documentation, system configuration, testing, operational readiness, training, and change management.
• Manage implementation risks, stakeholder coordination, and post-launch optimization.
• Drive workflow standardization, automation, process redesign, and implementation of new editorial technologies to improve operational effectiveness and modernize editorial infrastructure.
• Assess operational impacts of policy and process changes.
• Develop dashboards and reporting to monitor workflow performance, vendor SLAs, operational risks, and key metrics.
• Provide data-driven insights and recommendations to support continuous improvement and decision making.
• Lead, develop, and support staff by fostering collaboration, accountability, continuous improvement, knowledge sharing, and effective resource planning.
• Partner with internal teams and external partners to lead cross-functional initiatives, align workflow standards, support change management, and represent editorial workflow requirements across strategic projects.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in relevant field.
• 7+ years of experience in scholarly publishing, editorial operations, and peer review management, including working across multiple journals or publishing portfolios.
• Experience leading workflow automation, operational improvement initiatives, and manuscript tracking system implementations or migrations.
• Experience managing editorial office vendors and service providers.
• Strong analytical, process-oriented, and project management capabilities.
• Demonstrated ability to use operational data to drive continuous improvement and influence cross-functional stakeholders.

Skills

• Peer review processes
• Editorial workflows
• Workflow design, governance, and optimization
• Workflow automation
• Process improvement
• Operational excellence
• Change management
• Operational analytics
• Performance metrics
• Data-informed decision making
• Vendor management
• Cross-functional partnerships
• Balancing operational efficiency with editorial quality and researcher experience
• Influencing adoption of standardized processes

Location

• NY
• NJ
• CT
• MD
• VA
• PA
• MA
• RI
• Washington, DC

Work Type

• Remote workforce
• In-person collaboration, training, strategic planning

Experience Level

• 7+ years of experience

Education Level

• Bachelor's degree

Salary/Compensations

• $125,000 – $140,000

Benefits

• Generous paid time off
• Paid sick and safe leave
• Flexible Work Schedule
• Competitive medical, dental and vision benefits
• Exceptional retirement benefits
• Monthly remote stipend
• Training and Tuition assistance
• Employee Assistance Program

About the Company

• AIP Publishing is a leading publisher of the physical sciences, dedicated to accelerating scientific discovery and reimagining scholarly publishing.
• We are building a living network of knowledge to spark thinking, connect people, and drive new ways forward, empowering a vibrant global community using science for good.
• We foster a collaborative, creative atmosphere and encourage a workplace culture that maximizes individual contributions.
• We are always looking to evolve the ways we think and operate, and we actively encourage an environment where everybody feels comfortable, seen, and able to do their best work.
• A wholly owned not-for-profit subsidiary of the American Institute of Physics (AIP), AIP Publishing’s mission is to advance, promote, and serve the physical sciences for the benefit of humanity by breaking barriers to open, fair research communication and empowering researchers to accelerate global progress.
• AIP Publishing supports the charitable, scientific, and educational purposes of AIP through scholarly publishing activities on its behalf and on behalf of our publishing partners.
• Our publishing portfolio includes digital books, AIP Conference Proceedings, and peer-reviewed journals across a spectrum of research areas, including our flagship titles Applied Physics Reviews, Applied Physics Letters, Journal of Applied Physics, and The Journal of Chemical Physics.

Equal Opportunity

• All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.