Join the Ubiquity Press team!
Ubiquity Press is more than a publisher – we’re also engineering new technology that will change and improve the future of research communications worldwide. We’re a dynamic and idealistic company, and can offer the excitement and advantages of working for a rapidly-growing company. We have a wide focus: from supporting open access university publishing and infrastructure, including research data and software, to solutions for the developing world. Headquartered in London, with a distributed workforce in North America and Europe, Ubiquity Press offers an open and supportive environment where staff are encouraged to grow and develop.
We look for talented people with broad publishing and/or technical skills, who have a research background and interest, and who genuinely want to have an impact on the world. Applicants are evaluated solely on their ability to contribute to the success of the mission, and the company recognises the strength and insight that diverse teams bring - to this end, we welcome applicants from all backgrounds, life experiences, and perspectives.
Marketing Executive
Job Type: Permanent, full-time
Location: UK (London) or Greece (Thessaloniki) preferred, but remote working from other locations considered
Salary: £22,000 - £30,000 (depending on experience)
Purpose of the role
The Marketing Executive is responsible for the planning and implementation of primarily academic libraries outreach programme, as well as researchers, societies and other academic bodies suited to be interested in Ubiquity Press’s range of products, services and solutions.
As Ubiquity Press is quickly gaining ground in all its segments, we require a marketing specialist to take us to the next level and help us develop our brand.
If you’re looking for a role where you’ll have the opportunity to shape marketing and innovate, then this is the one for you!
Key tasks
- Work with the Chief Commercial Officer in implementing a tactical strategy to revamp Ubiquity as THE obvious open scholarship solutions’ provider.
- Participate in rebranding strategy including website redesign, writing brochures and other marketing copies.
- Explore and manage effective marketing channels (mailings mostly) to maximise outreach.
- Organise attendance, sponsorship and logistics for academic conferences to promote our products/brand.
- Coordinate with global colleagues across departments (editorial and technical teams) to ensure the implementation of all relevant activities and support advocacy.
- Work closely with the Community Manager to ensure all media are exploited for maximum outreach.
About you
Desired qualifications/experience
- Knowledge of managed products and associated scholarly communities; awareness of industry trends and developments that target authors, readers and institutions.
- Understanding of the open access landscape.
- Ideally experienced in academic publishing, libraries or research environments.
- Experience of setting up and leading projects.
Personal attributes
- Strong communication skills in English is a must.
- Good organisational skills, details-oriented and capable of handling multiple priorities.
- Clear and confident communicator.
- Proactive attitude.
- Excellent time and workload management.
- Tech- and online-savvy.
- Passionate about open access.
- High standards and a great eye for detail.
- Honesty and integrity held in high regard.
- Your personality will make the whole difference.
Application Process
Please send your CV and short covering letter to marianne.josserand@ubiquitypress.com. Successful applicants will be invited for online interviews, with the aim to make a quick decision.
Publishing Assistant (Indexing)
Job Type: Permanent, full-time
Location: UK (London) or Greece (Thessaloniki) preferred, but remote working from other locations considered
Salary: £21,000
Purpose
This is a trainee position where you will learn how to manage the entire journal, book and repository indexing processes; including liaising with the offshore indexing team and potential new subject indexes and abstracting databases, conducting quality control, orchestrating the distribution and archiving of the products, and optimising the relevant operations processes.
There will be opportunities to gain experience in other operations roles, such as book and journal article production, journal setup, and back content transfer activities. Being part of a small team guarantees the successful applicant to have a strong impact from the start and the ability to develop the role in a way which seems more efficient to an ambitious candidate.
Who we’re looking for
This job suits a communicative, accurate, fast learner with an interest in gaining experience/skills/responsibilities in digital distribution/archiving or operations in an academic publishing environment. The candidate should be able to work fairly independently (after training is complete). Most staff choose to work remotely, but the London office is also available.
Responsibilities (full training and support will be given)
- Liaising with journal citation indexes (e.g. Scopus, Web of Science) to initiate and maintain journal indexing
- Coordinating with suppliers on delivery of content to article indexes (e.g. PubMed, PubMed Central)
- Liaising with book indexes (e.g. OAPEN, JSTOR) to initiate and maintain book indexing
- Coordinating with suppliers on delivery of books to indexes
- Liaising with repository indexes (e.g. Google Scholar, OpenDOAR, CORE) to initiate and maintain repository indexing
- Coordinating with suppliers on delivery of repository information to indexes
- Liaising with customers to establish which indexes are important, and providing reports on the successful inclusion of their content
- Liaising with editorial team on future indexing goals and archiving plans of individual journals
- Conducting quality control of delivery on manual indexing tasks
- Establishing work processes to conduct efficient indexing-related tasks (incl. writing of clear and correct documentation)
- Establishing and implementing short- and long-term plans to meet Ubiquity’s indexing aims
- Ensuring tracking is present covering status of each index and each product’s status in each index
- Representing the indexing process to internal team, including providing updates/reports/presentations
Desired personal attributes
- People-oriented, but process-driven
- Clear and open communicator (both written and oral)
- Quick learner
- Interest in academic publishing and in open access
- Resilient under pressure/deadlines
- Eye for detail
- Flexible
- Capable of working alone
- Competent with technology and able to learn new IT systems
- A passion for knowledge distribution
Skills/Knowledge developed in the role
- Supplier management
- Tracking and planning
- Documentation writing
- Indexing (e.g. DOI/Crossref, DOAJ, EBSCO, JSTOR, CNKI, PubWeb, DOAJ, etc.)
- Data structures (e.g. XML, CSV, JSON etc.)
- Quality management
- Customer management
- Creation of operational processes
- Google Drive/Sheets/Docs
- Data query languages (e.g. Google/Excel formulas, SQL etc.)
Benefits
- Salary £21,000 (increasing with experience)
- Flexible work hours
- Option to work from home or from the London office
- Large impact from the start
- Chance to develop position and embrace new challenges
Application Process
Please send your CV and short covering letter to michael.higgs@ubiquitypress.com.
Ruby Backend Developer
Job Type: Permanent, full-time
Location: UK (London) or Greece (Thessaloniki) preferred, but remote working from other locations considered
Purpose of the role
In this full-time mid to senior position, you will take on a range of responsibilities, and will be involved in all stages of the software lifecycle: from design through development, testing and deployment to maintenance.
The successful candidate for this London-based position will work under the guidance of the Tech Team Leader and Head of Operations, and contribute primarily to the further development of academic data repository solutions based on open source software, and their integration with the existing company platform.
The ideal candidate will spend most of the working day on Ruby products, while supporting the open source development of the Ruby platforms.
Skills and experience
Essential
- Excellent understanding of Ruby on Rails (at least 4 years experience)
- JSON, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript skills, including JQuery
- RESTful web service development
- Understanding and experience of the software development lifecycle and code versioning systems such as GIT, including branching and merging flows;
- Demonstrable activity on GitHub profile
- Excellent English language communication skills, both verbal and written, with the ability communicate effectively with a technical and non-technical audience
Preferred
- AWS (S3 / EC2) or Google Cloud
- Docker / Kubernetes
- Redis
- Previous involvement in open source projects and open source communities
Things we like
- Google Compute Engine / GKE
- GitLab pipelines / build automation
- “frequent” integration
- Agile / Kanban
- Easygoing, understanding, supporting team, willing to help and mentor!
- flexible working hours (plus some occasional WFH)
- contribution to open source projects
- work with some of our partners, including:
- Google Scholar (yes!)
- European Union
- Codata
- some of the most important US and UK universities
Things we are involved in
- Development of open source services and libraries, with some important, industry leading international partners
- Community outreach (conferences, events, etc)
Application Process
Please send your CV and short covering letter to francesco.devirgilio@ubiquitypress.com.
A short cover letter (in the form of an email) should include:
- Short introduction
- Link to GitHub / GitLab / Bitbucket or other repo with some of your work
If your application moves past the CV stage you will be requested to:
- Complete a practical test
- Attend an interview (in person or via skype where required)
- Have a super quick chat with the rest of the Tech Team
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