Editorial Assistant

Crimson Interactive; United States; Remote; USD 3,800 - 5,600; Full time

Job summary

Crimson Interactive is seeking Editorial Assistants to work on scholarly manuscripts across multiple disciplines. You will ensure consistency, formatting accuracy, and adherence to publication standards, contributing to publication-ready documents.

You will support Academic Editors by enhancing author-facing communication and performing detailed quality checks, ensuring manuscripts align with style guides and journal requirements.

Qualifications

• Strong attention to detail and excellent language skills.
• Experience reviewing academic documents for consistency, formatting, and presentation.
• Ability to ensure manuscripts meet international publication standards.

Responsibilities

• Format documents in accordance with relevant style guides and journal specifications.
• Ensure consistency in citations, references, tables, figures, equations, abbreviations, terminology, and structure.
• Review manuscripts for formatting, presentation, and document-level inconsistencies.
• Enhance and refine author-facing comments for clarity and professionalism.
• Perform detailed quality checks to deliver publication-ready manuscripts.
• Verify adherence to internal editorial standards and client-specific requirements.
• Identify inconsistencies, missing elements, or formatting issues affecting quality.
• Support process improvements by documenting recurring issues for the editorial team.
• Work across manuscripts from diverse subject areas while maintaining turnaround expectations.

Job description

JOB DESCRIPTION

Role : Editorial Assistant. Job location : Goregaon (West), Mumbai. Department : Editing. Shift time : Rotational shift from 7 am to 11 pm (Any 9 hours within this window). Working days : 5-day week with rotational week offs.

We believe you Can be a descent editor If you can spot the mistakes, write back to us!

Do you have an eye for detail, enjoy bringing order to complex documents, and take pride in delivering polished, publication-ready work? If so, you might be the Editorial Assistant we are looking for!

Whether you are a recent graduate or an experienced professional, this role offers a unique opportunity to contribute to the global research community. As an Editorial Assistant, you will work on scholarly manuscripts across a wide range of disciplines, ensuring consistency, formatting accuracy, and adherence to publication standards.

You will gain valuable exposure to the scholarly publishing ecosystem, collaborate with researchers from around the world, and work in a multicultural environment with authors from countries including Japan, China, Korea, Taiwan, Germany, Brazil, and Turkey. The manuscripts you handle may span a wide range of disciplines, including Medicine, Biosciences, Humanities, Economics, Business, Physical Sciences and Engineering.

You will play a key role in supporting the editorial process by enhancing document presentation, strengthening author communication, and ensuring that manuscripts align with journal and publisher requirements. If you enjoy working with details, maintaining high quality standards, and helping researchers present their work professionally, we would love to hear from you.

Who are we?

Crimson Interactive is a leading language solutions provider in the field of diversified language solutions with headquarters in Goregaon (W), Mumbai. We offer a range of English language solutions, including editing, publication support, translation, and transcription, to customers globally. With over 40,000 satisfied customers, we strive to make the how-when-what-where-why of world-changing ideas accessible to everyone. We are proud to be one of the top three editing companies in Japan.

Crimson has also been recognized as one of the 100 most promising companies in the world by Red Herring Awards.

Crimson is, in short, defined by Quality People! Quality Work!

Job Description

We are seeking Editorial Assistants with strong attention to detail and excellent language skills to work on scholarly manuscripts across a range of disciplines. The role involves reviewing academic documents for consistency, formatting, and presentation to ensure they meet international publication standards.

As an Editorial Assistant, you will be responsible for ensuring that manuscripts are well-structured, consistently formatted, and publication-ready. You will support Academic Editors by enhancing author-facing communication, performing detailed quality checks, and ensuring compliance with style guide and journal requirements.

Key Responsibilities

• Format documents in accordance with relevant style guides, publisher requirements, and journal specifications.
• Ensure consistency in citations, references, tables, figures, equations, abbreviations, terminology, and document structure.
• Review manuscripts for formatting, presentation, and document-level inconsistencies.
• Enhance and refine author-facing comments to ensure clarity, professionalism, and effectiveness of communication.
• Perform detailed quality checks to deliver publication-ready manuscripts.
• Verify adherence to internal editorial standards and client-specific requirements.
• Identify and flag inconsistencies, missing elements, or formatting issues that may affect manuscript quality.
• Support process improvement initiatives by documenting recurring issues and sharing feedback with the editorial team.
• Work across manuscripts from diverse subject areas while maintaining quality, consistency, and turnaround expectations.

We have openings across multiple disciplines, including:

• Biosciences (Biology, Microbiology, Zoology, Botany, Life Sciences, Biochemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology, Pharmacy, Food Technology, Genetics)
• Engineering and Physical Sciences (Chemical, Mechanical, Electronic, Civil, and Telecommunication Engineering, Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Computer Science, Astronomy)
• Economics and Business (Business Administration, Economics, Commerce, Finance)
• Arts and Humanities (Literature, Psychology, History, Political Science, Sociology, Law, Media Communication)
• Medicine (Surgery, Dentistry, Medicine, Physiotherapy, Epidemiology, Medical Technology, Radiology)

What Makes This Role Unique:

Unlike traditional administrative or publishing support roles, this position places you at the heart of the scholarly publishing process. Editorial Assistants work on research manuscripts from a wide range of disciplines, ensuring consistency, adherence to publication standards, and a polished presentation that enhances the overall quality of the document.

The role combines meticulous attention to detail with strong communication skills. Editorial Assistants are responsible for applying style guide requirements, performing comprehensive consistency checks, refining author-facing comments, and ensuring that manuscripts are professionally formatted and publication-ready.

Our objective is to deliver manuscripts that are clear, consistent, professionally presented, and aligned with international publishing standards, helping authors communicate their research effectively to publishers, reviewers, and readers.

We are hiring!