Production Editor

• Experience with or desire to learn LaTeX.
• Strong opinions on how documents should look or what makes things look pretty in general. 
• Eye for detail. While it's not the typesetters job to correct the manuscript, it's almost inevitable that some small errors make their way through both peer reviewers and copy-editors.
• Independent working attitude & good communicative skills - the position is virtual / from home, but our team stays in contact via online platforms.

• Experience with working in an academic journal or publishing context.
• Comfortable with reference managers (Zotero, Mendeley).
• Proficiency with Tikz. I know we just said you don’t need it! We just don't use it at all at the moment, which is a shame as it's an incredibly versatile tool.
• Experience with other publishing tools such as InDesign. While we don't use it at the moment, we are exploring replacing parts of our LaTeX based workflow with InDesign to make it easier to iterate on designs.
• Being comfortable using command-line tools is a big plus, as many of our converters etc. do not yet have (stable) GUIs.
• Experience with a programming language, ideally Python or JavaScript/TypeScript. Our converters are written in TypeScript, and while working on them is not required, being able to make some tweaks or being interested in learning to create parsers/converters would make you able to work way more independently.
• Burning hatred for the Elsevier Industrial Complex. Passion for Open Science.
• Good organization skills. While we try to automate and streamline everything as much as we can, everything is much messier in reality. Being able to create order out of chaos is a big plus.

You'll be taught to TeX like a pro and manage the tail end of the production process of an academic journal.

You will (learn to):

• Typeset academic articles

This will (at the moment) entail transforming .docx files to .tex files using our converters and making them publication-worthy. The latter will involve some more in-depth knowledge of LaTeX.

• Manage the production stage and publish articles

After the (copy) editors have taken care of the content, you take over and manage the final stretch of the article’s span. You will put the articles on the website, make 'em look pretty, register the metadata to make the article discoverable by our robot overlords, and announce to the world that a new article just dropped. While we publish on a rolling basis, occasionally we compile these articles into issues as well which require similar treatment.

• Create detailed, validate, and curate detailed metadata about academic articles. 

While we try to move the needle a bit, it’s still an unfortunate reality that the number of citations you receive as an author can make or break whether you can get funding or that tenure-track position. While not the most glamorous job, it’s crucial that all references are properly cited and the articles we create are easily findable by our robot overlords. We try to automate this as much as possible, but some manual work is still involved in e.g. minting DOIs.

• Experience on the behind-the-scenes process of value-based publishing of journals and books;
• A central position in the publishing process;
• Room for creativity;
• We are primarily looking for (graduate) students and would like to set up an internship for who want to gain experience with value-based publishing or collaborate with us as a volunteer.
• If you are interested in discussing potential alternative arrangements, such as freelance or contract work, we welcome you to apply and would be happy to explore possibilities with you.