product manager for scientific publishing

Frontiers is one of the world's largest open-access research publishers. It publishes peer-reviewed, quality-certified research to make science accessible worldwide and support scientific discovery.

• Own and evolve the roadmap for IAM and Messaging, prioritizing engineering demand, security and compliance requirements, and platform scalability; break major initiatives into iterative releases
• Turn engineering needs into clear specifications and a prioritized backlog, translating requirements from stream-aligned teams into well-shaped work using PRDs/SDDs in git and the Spec-Driven / AI-First Delivery practice
• Co-design architecture trade-offs, API contracts, and service-level requirements with the Platform Engineering Manager and Senior Engineers
• Own service and API lifecycle decisions, including versioning, deprecation, and backward compatibility
• Serve as the primary contact for internal customers integrating with IAM and Messaging; lead discovery, onboarding, support model development, and feedback loops
• Define and track adoption, reliability, integration time, security posture, and cost metrics
• Partner with Security, Architecture, and Infrastructure to meet compliance and security standards and align with the Technology Framework
• Communicate roadmaps, trade-offs, and priorities to engineering leadership and stakeholder teams; manage expectations transparently
• Track success across adoption and integration, reliability, developer experience, security and compliance, and service costs

• 5+ Years in Technical / Platform Product Management or engineering leadership, with a significant portion in technical, platform, or developer-facing product roles
• Able to prioritize technical roadmaps for internal engineering customers against competing demands
• Solid software-engineering fundamentals; able to participate in architecture discussions, read technical documentation, system diagrams, and API specifications, and reason about trade-offs
• Strong understanding of API design, versioning, documentation, and lifecycle management, including deprecation and backward compatibility
• Working knowledge of backend systems, messaging and event-driven architectures, and authentication and authorization protocols
• Familiarity with SLAs/SLOs, uptime, latency, and cloud infrastructure
• Bachelor's in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent practical/technical experience
• Professional-level English, spoken and written
• Будет плюсом: experience with authentication or messaging systems, familiarity with GDPR consent and email deliverability at scale, experience with Microsoft Azure, Kubernetes (AKS), and modern CI/CD (GitHub Actions), experience facilitating InnerSource or community-driven contributions to shared services, interest or experience in Spec-Driven Development and AI coding assistants, background in Scientific Publishing

• Extra wellbeing days on top of the annual leave allowance
• Up to 3 paid volunteering days each year
• 24/7 Confidential Employee Assistance Programme covering wellbeing, mental health, legal, and financial support
• Learning and development support via the Frontiers Learning Hub