Jobs at Springer Nature

Lead strategic business analysis and discovery across portfolio, investment, technology strategy, and transformation initiatives. Develop business cases, evaluate solution options, assess risks and benefits, support M&A due diligence, facilitate stakeholder decisions, and improve alignment between business and technology outcomes. The role also mentors Business Analysts and contributes to business analysis standards and capability development.

Drive Springer Nature Health’s growth and transformation portfolio across AI, strategy, go-to-market, product, business model, performance, and people initiatives. Build delivery plans, track milestones and critical paths, maintain governance and prioritization, coordinate international cross-functional teams, resolve blockers, and prepare executive and board-level materials. The role requires strong transformation, strategy, change management, stakeholder management, communication, and AI fluency.

Provides administrative and operational support to the Journals Permissions team. Responsibilities include monitoring the permissions inbox, processing requests, handling RightsLink tickets, issuing licenses, maintaining records and schedules, preparing reports, processing payments, raising invoices, coordinating meetings, and escalating complex matters. The role also contributes to rights-related systems and process projects while ensuring accurate, timely, and customer-focused service.

Handle and evaluate geophysics manuscripts for Nature Geoscience, oversee peer review, make editorial decisions, commission and edit scientific content, and contribute to journal strategy. The role requires assessing novelty and significance across geophysics, collaborating with international scientists and Nature Portfolio editors, and attending conferences and research-institution visits. A related PhD, broad knowledge of current geophysics research, excellent communication skills, and strong scientific judgment are essential.

Develop and manage educational ELT content from author briefing through publication. Responsibilities include identifying contributors, supporting contracts and budgets, providing editorial feedback, coordinating with publishing, design, media, and delivery teams, preparing artwork and digital briefs, supporting copy editing, managing content across print and digital formats, attending media production sessions, and ensuring projects meet quality, schedule, budget, and rights-clearance requirements.

Interim editor for the launch of Nature Reviews Computing. Responsibilities include commissioning review and opinion articles, guiding authors through development and revision, editing manuscripts, organizing peer review, writing editorial content, and engaging with researchers through institutional visits and conferences. The role requires broad computer science knowledge, strong scientific writing and editing skills, excellent organization, and a PhD in computer science.

Supports academic journal growth by identifying, screening, and recruiting researchers for editorial boards. Uses data analysis and predefined criteria to develop candidate datasets, assess recruitment needs, and provide recommendations. Builds relationships with editors-in-chief and publishing teams, coordinates recruitment progress, supports onboarding, and recommends process improvements for scalable editorial workflows and tools.

Manage and strategically develop a portfolio of open access clinical medicine journals. Responsibilities include creating annual growth plans, meeting submission and publication targets, improving author and editor experiences, resolving publication issues, analyzing data, negotiating contracts, monitoring market trends, and collaborating with internal teams, editors, societies, and researchers.

Manage and strategically develop a portfolio of open access microbiology and oncology journals. Responsibilities include achieving submission and publication targets, improving author and editor engagement, resolving publication issues, analyzing market and portfolio data, negotiating contracts, supporting business development, and collaborating with internal teams, researchers, editors, and societies. The role requires strong communication, organization, stakeholder management, adaptability, and occasional travel.

Manage and strategically develop a portfolio of open-access clinical medicine journals under the npj brand. The role oversees journal growth, author and editor engagement, society partnerships, contract negotiations, KPIs, improvement plans, issue resolution, and collaboration with production, IT, sales, marketing, finance, and editorial teams. The Associate Publisher will also represent the journals externally and identify opportunities to strengthen portfolio performance and stakeholder relationships.

Develops, maintains, and expands online research integrity training for editors, reviewers, authors, and colleagues. Responsibilities include creating and updating courses with e-learning tools, testing and publishing content in LMS platforms, improving accessibility and DEI, preparing monthly analytics reports, and promoting training through stakeholder communications, campaigns, events, and projects.

Supports sales and account teams by preparing subscription renewals, quotes, contracts, invoices, and license agreements. Manages customer correspondence, contract execution, amendments, data quality, and first-level customer support. Generates renewal reports, tracks closures, coordinates stakeholders, and maintains Salesforce CRM records. The role also identifies workflow improvements and supports accurate, timely renewal operations.

Handles and evaluates physics research manuscripts, oversees peer review, makes editorial decisions, commissions and edits reviews and editorials, and develops journal content strategy. The editor collaborates with editorial boards and international scientists, attends conferences and research institutions, and promotes the journal across optical physics, photonics, plasma physics, and laser physics. The role requires PhD-level research experience, broad scientific interest, strong English communication, and resilience. Editorial experience is required for the senior editor track.

Sells digital, print, branded content, and recruitment advertising solutions to scientific recruiters across Europe. Manages existing accounts, develops new business through prospecting and cold calling, prepares customized proposals, maintains CRM records, reports sales forecasts, researches market trends, and attends industry events. The role requires strong customer service, communication, organization, lead generation, and collaboration with internal teams.

Leads the global portfolio strategy and growth of Springer journals in applied sciences. Responsibilities include developing high-performing publishing teams, managing portfolio performance through quantitative analysis, pursuing strategic partnerships, strengthening relationships with editors and scholarly societies, and translating market insights into business outcomes. The role requires significant scholarly publishing leadership, commercial acumen, stakeholder management, and strategic planning experience.

Selects and develops sustainability and environmental science manuscripts for publication in Communications Sustainability. Responsibilities include evaluating research quality and novelty, improving manuscript accessibility, coordinating production transfer, recommending press-release content, supporting external editors, attending scientific conferences, advising marketing, and developing editorial projects. Requires environmental science research experience, strong analytical or computational methods, broad scientific interests, excellent English communication, and the ability to assess multidisciplinary research.

Handles geochemistry research manuscripts for Nature Communications, overseeing peer review, assessing novelty and scientific significance, making editorial decisions, and shaping subject representation. Collaborates with Nature editors and the international scientific community, attends conferences, and visits research institutions. Requires a geosciences PhD, strong solid Earth geochemistry expertise, excellent English communication, broad scientific understanding, and the ability to evaluate research across the discipline.

The editor will help launch and develop Nature Mechanical Engineering by assessing manuscripts, overseeing peer review, making publication decisions, commissioning and editing Reviews, Perspectives, and Comments, writing editorials, and contributing to journal strategy. The role requires collaboration across the Nature Portfolio, attendance at conferences, and visits to research institutions. Candidates should have a PhD and strong relevant research expertise, broad scientific knowledge, excellent communication and writing skills, and the ability to evaluate new research areas.

Paid, full-time January–June 2027 internship reporting on science and science policy for Nature’s website and print magazine. Interns cover cutting-edge research and US science agencies, write news and occasional features, attend local story-related events, and may eventually pitch original stories. Candidates need a relevant university degree, strong writing and reporting samples, deadline-management ability, and preferably a background in science or science journalism.

Provides engineering leadership across multiple teams, manages and mentors engineering managers and engineers, and contributes to software delivery. Responsibilities include career development, recruitment, performance management, technical strategy, coding, engineering standards, security and data protection, stakeholder communication, and continuous improvement. The role partners with technology leaders to execute long-term engineering vision and foster collaborative, customer-focused teams.