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Academic Editor - Business (Bachelor's)

About Research Square
Research Square Company, a five-time INC 5000 award winner, exists to make research communication faster, fairer, and more useful. Through our industry-leading preprint platform, Research Square, research promotion tools, and AJE’s comprehensive suite of manuscript preparation services, we are proud to have supported over 2.5 million authors in 192 countries since our founding in 2004. Across all sides of our business, our team of former researchers and publishing industry professionals truly understand the importance of sharing research results with the world. By helping researchers communicate their work more effectively, we accelerate the pace of global discovery and advancement.

Job Summary 
We are looking for generalist editors with a strong editing and research background in many fields of study (clinical, life sciences, physical sciences, business, engineering, and math & computer science). Academic Editors help researchers successfully communicate their work through trusted author-oriented solutions to overcome the barriers to the manuscript preparation process. 

Our Academic Editors have a strong background in academic research and stellar language editing skills. You will improve the writing in academic manuscripts to a level that is appropriate for peer review. 
The Academic Editor is a challenging position. It entails delivering a high volume of consistently high-quality edits (several manuscripts per day, editing at the sentence level), and it requires a combination of strong editing and time management skills as well as expertise in a specific field of study. 

Academic Editors work from anywhere in the United States that is most productive for them on a schedule that suits their lives. Our employees are distributed across the United States, so we're all working together from different locations.

Field of Study (AOS): 
  • Business: Candidates will have experience with editing in LaTeX and have expertise in the following business fields: economics, environmental economics, and/or macroeconomics.
Essential Functions 
  • Communicates with our support, customer service, and editing teams as needed to serve our customers best and in line with team expectations
  • Edits in line with our scope and service goals
  • Meets workflow-specific quality standards, volume targets, and deliverables 
  • Makes our company a better place
  • Works effectively in a dynamic environment

Requirements

 
Education 
  • Bachelor's degree
Experience
  • 3+ years of professional experience in the field
  • Expertise in their field of study, as demonstrated 
  • The work is results-oriented and communication is often asynchronous, so written communication skills and a dash of tech-savvy are a must.
  • Proficiency in MS Office and some CRM system experience, preferably Salesforce
  • Excellent time management skills with a proven ability to meet deadlines.
  • Strong interpersonal and communication skills-written, face-to-face, and virtual
  • Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail
  • Ability to work independently and professionally in a fast-paced environment
Preferred Experience 
  • Experience working LaTeX preferred
Work Environment 
  • Relocation is not required as this position can be remote-based. 
  • This is a US-based role. 
The starting, non-negotiable, annual salary for this role is $41,000

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States for any employer.