Senior Manager, Professional Publications
About the role
Position Summary:
This role requires a highly skilled Senior Manager, Professional Publications, to help transform complex data sets and technical findings into high-impact, peer-reviewed publications. The ideal candidate is more than just a writer; it requires a professional who can find the "story" within the data. This role will work directly with senior executives and lead researchers to draft, refine, and shepherd manuscripts through the peer-review process in top-tier journals. You also may work on high-value, non-peer review articles, opinion pieces, and white papers.
A second area of responsibility will be to work closely with a cross-functional team on the speaker workstream of an anticipated renewal of our organization’s TEDx license. This will be limited to identifying speakers and prepping them to present at the next TEDx event or other events as determined by the director, PR, and Professional Publications.
Role and Responsibilities:
- Narrative Development: Analyze raw data, statistical outputs, and technical briefs to construct a clear, persuasive, and logically sound academic narrative.
- Manuscript Drafting: Lead the end-to-end writing process for peer-reviewed papers, including abstracts, introductions, methodology, results, and discussion sections.
- Executive Liaison: Act as a strategic partner to senior-level executives and subject matter experts (SMEs), translating their vision and insights into formal technical prose that accurately represents the data being presented.
- Data Interpretation: Review and interpret complex analytical findings to ensure the written content accurately reflects the technical rigor of the data and rese