Jobs at Springer Nature

Conduct policy and S&T research on China relevant to publishing; analyze implications of developments and technologies; synthesize findings into clear summaries; support preparation of reports, presentations, and whitepapers; and assist in survey projects and stakeholder engagement.

Lead QA strategy and risk reduction within cross-functional teams. Coach and embed exploratory testing, shift-left and collaborative QA practices. Influence architecture, CI pipelines, monitoring, and cross-functional requirements (security, accessibility, performance, data protection). Contribute to QA community and drive documentation, process improvements and domain-wide quality initiatives.

Own and steer transfer pricing for the Education segment: design and implement TP policies, prepare documentation, manage complex intercompany transactions and audits, advise senior stakeholders, monitor international TP developments, lead cross-functional projects, and mentor junior team members.

Manage peer review and publication workflows for engineering journals: assess manuscripts, invite and manage reviewers, make editorial decisions, support editors and EBMs, and collaborate on journal development and operational improvements to ensure fast, high-quality publication.

Manage peer review and editorial decisions for computer science manuscripts, ensuring policy compliance, timely reviewer selection, and high editorial standards. Collaborate with editors, EBMs, and stakeholders to support journal development, workflows, and operational improvements.

Manage peer review and editorial decisions for Humanities and Social Sciences manuscripts, ensuring compliance with journal policies, inviting reviewers, providing editorial support to stakeholders, resolving difficult cases, and contributing to journal development and operational improvements.

Perform month-end and year-end accounting tasks, reconcile balance sheet accounts, process expenses and vendor invoices, manage corporate card program, maintain general ledger integrity, collaborate with Tokyo and regional finance teams, support finance projects and process improvements, and handle ad hoc accounting tasks.

Investigate and resolve research integrity and publication ethics cases across Springer Nature products, triaging, assessing legal/reputational risk, using detection tools, and recommending corrective action. Manage multiple complex investigations, advise editors, contribute to policy, training and tool development, and maintain meticulous case documentation and reporting to improve workflows and ensure compliance with COPE and company policies.

The Senior Financial Planning Analyst leads budget preparation, variance analysis, and supports business strategy with financial insights. Responsibilities include financial reporting, automation initiatives, and audits.

The Senior Software Developer (Full Stack) role involves customizing and integrating solutions for the China market, collaborating with teams globally, and ensuring seamless digital experiences while mentoring junior developers.

Advise editorial teams on contract negotiation, rights management, research integrity, and publishing ethics for Books and Proceedings. Lead investigations using COPE guidelines, develop training and educational materials, support tooling specifications for misconduct detection, and communicate contractual policies to external stakeholders.

Handle and assess original optics and photonics research manuscripts, oversee peer review and editorial decisions, liaise with editorial board and other Nature journals, commission and edit reviews and editorials, represent the journal at conferences and institutions, and help recruit and train external editors.

Manage budgeting, forecasting and performance analysis for Gross Margin and Digital & Technology. Act as finance business partner to Supply Chain and Digital teams, deliver monthly reporting, model scenarios and business cases, maintain Anaplan planning data, support month‑end and audit processes, manage royalty accounting and accruals, and act as SAP S/4HANA super user to drive continuous improvement in financial controls and reporting.

Handle and evaluate original research submissions for Nature Synthesis, oversee peer review and editorial decisions, commission and edit reviews and opinion pieces, liaise with international researchers and editorial teams, contribute to journal content strategy, and represent the journal at conferences and institutional visits.

Lead global print and paper procurement for offset and digital printing across multiple regions. Develop sourcing strategies, run RFQ/RFP processes, negotiate contracts, manage supplier performance, drive cost savings, support SAP/Ariba adoption, supervise procurement team members, and travel for supplier audits (up to 20%).

Support manuscript editorial operations from initial assessment through peer review and final decision. Perform enhanced quality checks and suitability assessments, route and manage manuscripts, liaise with editors/reviewers/authors, monitor peer-review progress, and contribute to workflow improvements and team training.

Manage and grow a portfolio of open-access life sciences journals (particularly Agriculture), develop and implement annual development plans, meet submission/publication targets, resolve publication issues, negotiate contracts, use data to inform decisions, and build relationships with Editors, researchers and internal teams to drive journal performance and author experience.

The Business Architect drives strategic initiatives by aligning business goals with technology execution, collaborating across the organization to optimize processes and foster transformation.

The Senior Legal Assistant provides administrative and operational support to legal professionals, manages corporate governance functions, and assists with litigation tasks and document management.

Build, operate and improve a unified engineering platform (PaaS) used by product teams. Deliver automation, self-service tooling, Kubernetes cluster management, CI/CD and observability, provide technical support to product teams, and treat platform components as products to accelerate secure, standardised delivery.