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Applications will be accepted from candidates based in the UK, Germany and the following US states: FL, IL, MA, MD, NY, PA, TX, VA.\nRole Summary \nThe Associate Director, Publishing provides strategic leadership for the PLOS journal portfolio, ensuring that portfolio priorities, publishing investments, and journal development strategies align with organizational goals and advance PLOS's mission. \nReporting to the Director, Publishing & Publishing Operations, the Associate Director leads and develops a team of Publishers responsible for the performance and strategic development of journals portfolios. The Associate Director serves as the primary steward of portfolio-wide publishing performance, translating organizational strategy into clear priorities and ensuring effective coordination across the organization. \nThe Associate Director uses publishing data, financial information, market intelligence, and research community insight to guide strategic decisions, establish priorities, identify opportunities for growth and innovation, and manage risks. Working in partnership with the Director, Publishing & Publishing Operations, the Associate Director ensures that journal-level strategies collectively support a sustainable PLOS portfolio with a strong value proposition. \nSupervisory Responsibilities \nLead, develop, and support a team of senior publishing professionals responsible for journal and subject portfolio performance. \nEstablish clear goals, priorities, and measures of accountability that align with organizational and portfolio strategy. \nProvide coaching, professional development, succession planning, and performance management for direct reports. \nFoster a culture of collaboration, inclusion, accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement. \nWork with Publishers to ensure effective leadership and development of Journal Development Managers and other publishing staff. \nResponsibilities \nPortfolio Strategy and Performance \nDevelop and implement a portfolio-wide publishing strategy aligned with PLOS's mission and organizational objectives. \nEnsure that journal and subject portfolio strategies collectively support a clear and differentiated value proposition for the PLOS portfolio. \nLead regular portfolio reviews and develop recommendations regarding journal positioning, growth opportunities, performance, and future direction. \nBalance the needs of individual journals and research communities with broader portfolio and organizational objectives. \nSupport Publishers in identifying and responding to changes in research communities, funding policies, scholarly communication, and the publishing market.\nDevelop consistent approaches and decision-making frameworks for evaluating proposals, opportunities, and performance across the portfolio. \nGuide the evaluation and development of new journals, products, services, publishing models in line with PLOS’s strategic direction. \nStrategic and Business Leadership \nTranslate organizational strategy into clear portfolio priorities, objectives, and plans for the publishing team. \nOversee publishing budgets and forecasts in partnership with the Director and Publishers, ensuring responsible decision-making and effective resource allocation. \nAct as a thought partner to, and deputize for, the Director, Publishing & Publishing Operations when appropriate. \nIn close collaboration with colleagues in Editorial, Sales and Global Publishing Development, support publishers in developing impactful relationships with Editors-in-Chief, Editorial Board members, researchers, institutions, societies, and partner organizations. \nBuild productive partnerships across Editorial, Publishing Operations, Sales & Global Publishing Development, Product, Technology, Marketing, Finance, Research Integrity, and other organizational teams. \nWork with Editorial and Publishing Operations leaders to ensure that journal strategies are supported by effective policies, processes, services, and quality standards. \nPartner with Marketing and Communications to strengthen journal positioning, audience engagement, portfolio visibility, and demand generation. \nLeadership and Culture\nModel the culture and behaviors PLOS is seeking to build, actively driving the culture change the organization needs through this transformation.\nServe as a collaborative leader across PLOS, fostering strong cross-functional partnerships and organizational alignment that enable shared organizational priorities to be delivered successfully.\nLead change effectively by ensuring a clear strategic rationale, defined outcomes, appropriate measures of success, realistic resource requirements and clear accountability and decision-making.\nQualifications & Skills \nRequired\nBachelor's degree or equivalent experience.\nBusiness problem solver - operates with curiosity to get to the root of the business problem to ensure the ultimate solution is grounded in PLOS’s strategy and mission.\nSubstantial experience launching Open Access journals from proposal to publication.\nStrong commercial and financial skills, including experience with budgeting, forecasting, business planning and P&L ownership.\nSubstantial experience in STM publishing with progressively increased responsibility.\nExperience managing senior publishing professionals, or comparable portfolio leaders. \nProven ability to develop and execute strategic plans that deliver measurable business and operational outcomes.\nStrong track record of leading and developing high-performing, geographically distributed teams.\nExceptional communication, relationship-building, and stakeholder management skills across cultures, disciplines, and organizational functions.\nDedication to open access and transforming scholarly communication, with a genuine interest in engaging productively with the scientific community.\nPreferred \nExperience leading high-volume journal portfolios and/or megajournals.\nPhysical Requirements and Work Environment \nProlonged periods stationary at a desk and working on a computer. \nSome national and international travel may be required. \nSome flexibility to work across time zones may be required.\nThe base salary range we’ve established for these positions is (US): $145,000- $157,000, (UK) £90,000- £104,000 or (DE) €85k - 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PLOS also offers a comprehensive benefits package summarized below. \nBENEFITS: \nUS:\n401k with employer match\nEmployee sponsored health, dental and vision insurance (Dental and Vision 100% employer paid)\nPaid Vacation, 11 public holidays and sick leave\nParental leave\nBirthday and three winter holidays days off\nShort term and long term disability insurance\n2 days paid time off for volunteering per year\nFully remote work environment with stipend on joining for home office \nUK: \nPrivate medical insurance \nLife assurance \nIncome protection \nPersonal accident insurance \nPension with up to 10% employer match \n25 days holidays, market competitive Maternity and Paternity leave \nBirthday and three winter holidays days off \n2 days paid time off for volunteering per year \nFully remote work environment with stipend on joining for home office\nAbout PLOS \nBuilding on a strong legacy of pioneering innovation, PLOS continues to be a catalyst in open science, reimagining models to meet open science principles, removing barriers and promoting inclusion in knowledge creation and sharing, and publishing research outputs that enable everyone to learn from, reuse and build upon scientific knowledge.\nOur work is supported by a highly skilled global in-house team, partnerships with local scholarly organizations, and the valued contributions of a diverse, international community of scientific researchers.\nWe’re committed to equal opportunity\nWe’re working to create a more equitable system of scientific knowledge and understanding. Removing barriers to inclusion and facilitating broad participation of voices is core to our success, inside and out. \nBeyond accepting distinct perspectives, we seek and support divergent backgrounds among our staff because we know differences strengthen our teams, our work, and our communities. We strongly encourage applicants of all identities to join us as we work towards a future where science is open to all, for all. \nVisit plos.org/careers to learn more.\nTo learn more about how PLOS protects your privacy, see our Employee Privacy Notice.","description_format":"text","description_chars":8397,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["401k plan","Growth opportunities","Health insurance","Home office","Parental leave","Professional development","Vision insurance"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"},{"name":"Germany","iso":"DE","kind":"country"},{"name":"United Kingdom","iso":"GB","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Media & Entertainment","Publishing","Nonprofits & Foundations"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-07T15:24:49Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":84,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.843,"p_room":1,"age_days":8,"expected_fill_days":29,"reasons":["conf:0","wave","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-10-16T05:45:00Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":157000,"is_top_pay":false},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/ploscompbiol-associate-director-publishing-3","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/ploscompbiol-associate-director-publishing-3.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-16T23:27:27Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":5442,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-17T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":19295},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=19295"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fploscompbiol-associate-director-publishing-3"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fploscompbiol-associate-director-publishing-3"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fploscompbiol-associate-director-publishing-3"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/ploscompbiol-associate-director-publishing-3\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fploscompbiol-associate-director-publishing-3"}]}