Head of Technical Product Management

Scribendi is looking for a Product Manager who can think strategically, move fast, and execute relentlessly.
This is a high-visibility role in which you will help shape the future of Scribendi's product ecosystem—an ambitious suite of AI-enhanced tools that accelerates scientific research, simplifies collaboration, and transforms how researchers develop and publish their work.
If you thrive in high-impact environments, love building elegant solutions to complex problems, and want your work to accelerate scientific discovery and improve lives, we'd love to meet you.
Our mission is to harness the power of technology and innovation to expedite scientific research and manuscript development, foster and simplify collaboration among researchers, enhance the likelihood of successful publication, and ultimately accelerate the pace of scientific discovery—driving impactful change across the global scientific community.
Our goal is simple but ambitious: to create tools that advance scientific research and directly improve the human experience.

Lead day-to-day project management, ensuring timelines, deliverables, dependencies, and risks are managed with clarity, structure, and discipline.

• Lead product discovery through user interviews, experimentation, and data-driven insights to deeply understand users' needs and pain points.
• Partner with Product Design to shape intuitive, elegant, and high-performing user experiences aligned with our design system and brand.
• Collaborate closely with Engineering to define requirements, manage scope, and deliver high-quality features rapidly and consistently.
• Work with QA and DevOps to uphold product reliability, security, and operational stability.
• com as the source of truth, ensuring clarity around priorities, blockers, risks, and decisions.
• Streamline processes to increase development velocity, reduce friction, and foster higher-quality releases.
• Represent the voice of our users, grounding decisions in real user behavior, feedback, and data.
• Support both the existing business and future AI-driven product expansions, shifting seamlessly between operational execution and innovation.

A data-informed decision-maker, comfortable with experimentation, analytics, and KPI-driven prioritization.

• A cross-functional partner who thrives working with Engineering, Product Design, QA, DevOps, and leadership.
• A user-first Product Manager who deeply understands user workflows and builds solutions that reduce friction and deliver value.
• You don't need to code, but you must be comfortable in technical environments.
• Execution focused, with a strong sense of ownership and the ability to push projects over the finish line.
• An organized and disciplined project manager who can coordinate multiple workstreams, manage dependencies, and keep teams aligned without relying on micromanagement or heavy process.
• Experience with academic manuscript development or scholarly publishing workflows, enabling a deeper understanding of researcher needs, timelines, and quality standards

React, Next.js, TypeScript, PHP, Tailwind CSS, Python, GCP

~ Data infrastructure: BigQuery, Metabase, KPI dashboards, analytics pipelines

Scribendi is a global leader in academic and professional editing, helping researchers and professionals communicate complex ideas with clarity and impact. We act as thinking partners in the academic process, offering critical feedback, intellectual engagement, and expert insight to elevate our clients' work. ai, our AI and machine-learning brand, to develop tools to improve our customer experience and enhance the skills of our human editors.
In 2023, Scribendi was acquired by the Japanese corporation M3, Inc. via its subsidiary Edanz. Since 1995, Edanz and its team of expert editors and research consultants have helped thousands of researchers all over the world publish successfully in international journals.
Together, Scribendi and Edanz serve a global network of researchers, institutions, and organizations that value credibility, clarity, and academic expertise.

While Scribendi uses AI-enabled tools to help screen and assess applicants, all hiring and interview decisions are ultimately made by human reviewers.