Senior Digital Publishing Lead (Hybrid)

American Medical Association; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 74,000 - 98,000; Full time

Job summary

The American Medical Association is seeking a Lead Digital Production Coordinator (Hybrid) in Chicago, IL. This role oversees the publishing operations, XML workflows, and quality assurance for digital medical education content.

You will coordinate with editorial, CME, IT, and production vendors to ensure timely, accurate publication across AMA platforms, while maintaining XML tagging quality and publishing standards.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent work experience and HS diploma/equivalent education required (P1-P4/M1-M2)
• Years of experience: 5+ years of experience in an online publishing environment, preferably academic or journal publishing
• Bachelor's Degree in a related field preferred (journalism, computer sciences, publishing); comparable work experience in electronic or web publishing acceptable

Responsibilities

• Publish, transform, and deliver data (metadata and full text conversion/tagging to XML) for AMA platforms and applications
• Coordinate vendor publishing activities, provide technical guidance, and monitor quality and deadlines
• Monitor tagging in the repository to identify errors and work with IT to fix issues (e.g., DTD)
• Publish and revise content renewals in XML and manage archiving and redirects
• Coordinate publishing of multimedia across platforms (Spotify, Cadmore, Descript, Libsyn) and support new formats
• Develop and refine publication processes and documentation for new formats and publishing requirements
• Test new XML functionality and platform features; communicate guidance to stakeholders across departments
• Draft publishing guidelines for vendors and oversee quality of vendor XML tagging and publication

Education

Bachelor's degree preferred

HS diploma/equivalent

Tools

XML

JATS

DTD

HighWire

Job description

The American Medical Association is seeking a Lead Digital Production Coordinator (Hybrid) in Chicago, IL. This role oversees the publishing operations, XML workflows, and quality assurance for digital medical education content.

You will coordinate with editorial, CME, IT, and production vendors to ensure timely, accurate publication across AMA platforms, while maintaining XML tagging quality and publishing standards.