Senior Product Manager (Core Platform)

Frontiers; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading research publisher in Greater London is seeking a strategic Product Manager to drive the core of their peer-review platform. This high-impact role involves collaboration with various teams to improve workflows, manage product vision, and ensure seamless operations. Candidates should have proven experience in product management, strong analytical skills, and effective communication abilities. The role offers benefits like additional wellbeing days and access to learning platforms.

Benefits

Additional wellbeing days

Access to learning platforms

Wellbeing initiatives

Volunteering days

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Product Manager or Product Owner on software applications.
• Demonstrated ability to drive insights from data.
• Strong analytical and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Own the product vision, roadmap, and execution for the Core team.
• Act as point of contact for core peer-review workflows.
• Monitor platform performance and gather user feedback.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Technical skills

Analytical skills

Cross-functional teamwork

Communication skills in English

Job description

Who we are

We are on a mission to make all science open, enabling the research community to develop the solutions we all need to live healthy lives on a healthy planet.

Frontiers is one of the world’s largest and most impactful research publishers, dedicated to making peer-reviewed, quality-certified science openly accessible. Our articles have been viewed 4 billion times, reflecting the power of research that is open for all.

Follow the links below to learn more about our work.

www.frontiersin.org/about/annual-reports

www.youtube.com/watch?v=87ejFfnQzko

What we can offer you

At Frontiers, our working model for new roles includes a balanced approach that fosters collaboration through regular engagement at our office hubs in key locations. While we value flexibility, we also believe that shared in-person time strengthens team culture, trust, and productivity.

We provide a range of benefits across our global locations, including but not limited to:

• 4 additional wellbeing days in addition to existing annual leave allowance

• Access to learning platforms and dedicated learning & development time

• A range of wellbeing initiatives, including free online yoga classes and an employee assistance plan

• Employees can dedicate three days each year to volunteer

• Additional benefits depending on your location (e.g. pension plan and private medical care)

The role

We are seeking a strategic and hands‑on Product Manager to own and drive the core of our peer‑review platform. Our peer‑review platform manages 100 of thousands of manuscripts each year and is powering all of our peer‑review activities.

This is a high‑impact role that will collaborate closely with Publishing leadership, other Product Managers, and Technology teams. Your goal is to help continuously improve the workflows that power our entire publishing platform, allowing configurability for the variety of needs for our journals and researchers, whilst ensuring manuscript pipeline conversion.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the product vision, roadmap, and execution for the Core team.
• Act as the primary point of contact for the core peer‑review workflows and platform improvement initiatives within Publishing Operations.
• Work closely with the Research Integrity, Review Operations, and Production teams to deeply understand their processes, challenges, and needs.
• Partner with Product Managers of the core publishing platform to ensure seamless integration and data flow between systems.
• Translate operational requirements into clear user stories and collaborate with Salesforce & Tableau admins, developers, and other stakeholders to deliver solutions.
• Coordinate product launch with our Publishing Operations counterpart ensuring effective delivery of your work without negatively impacting operations.
• Monitor platform performance, gather user feedback, and continuously iterate to improve the user experience.
• Ensure data integrity, automation quality, and platform stability.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Product Manager, or Product Owner on software applications.
• Strong stakeholder management skill and ability to federate through strong rationale and collaboration
• Demonstrated technical skills especially on workflows and architecture.
• Strong analytical skills and prior experience in this area – demonstrated ability to drive insights from data.
• Experience working in cross‑functional teams with engineers, administrators, and end‑users and lead discussion through critical thinking.
• Solid communication skills in English, both written and verbal

Ideal experience

• Existing understanding of publishing workflows.
• Experience in academic or scientific publishing operations.

Apply now

Please click the 'apply' button on this page and submit your application in English.

Please inform us if you require any special accommodations to participate fully in our recruitment experience. You can contact us at [e-mail] for any additional support.

Equal opportunity statement

Frontiers actively embraces diversity and is a safe and welcoming workplace. Recruitment is free from discrimination – including based on race, national or ethnic origin, age, religion, disability, sex, gender identity or sexual orientation. With employees from more than 50 different nations, our diversity creates vibrant teams and constantly challenges us to appreciate multiple perspectives.