How to join us

We publish in 28 areas from Medieval Studies to Medicine to Economics – and almost everything in between and the Editorial teams are the center of our content acquisition and management activities.

The content acquisition activities puts you in the driving seat for new publishing projects. You evaluate opportunities and – together with authors and editors – you develop new ideas and stay on top of new research developments within your discipline. You will also represent your team at relevant conferences in Germany and internationally.

The project management activities include nurturing the product from the signing of the contract all the way to its launch. You manage the publishing process for our books and journals, and are in direct contact with authors and editors and work closely with colleagues in Marketing, Sales and Production.

Production is the team that provides the physical home for the intellectual property of renowned researchers.

Our book and journal production team prepare, process and review our authors’ manuscripts. This includes technical copy editing as well as photo editing. You ensure the high quality of the content before producing the camera-ready copy. During the entire process, you coordinate the templates and the fonts.
In central purchasing areas, you manage our service providers and negotiate with them by analyzing the market for procurement and by calculating costs. Procurement controlling is also part of your job in Purchasing.

We are one of the largest open access publishers, and we offer almost every single product in a digital format. In order to ensure that this stays this way, we constantly expand and develop our infrastructure.

As a member of the Database Management, Platform Management, Data Quality Management and Digital Product Development teams, you help develop new digital products and ensure access to the relevant technologies. You also manage degruyter.com and develop concepts and manage our digital editorial and content management systems. To ensure high quality, you analyze technical product data from our databases, eBook and Apps. When required, you adapt the relevant product standards, e-publishing-processes and workflows for XML-based, media-neutral production processes while always keeping the user experience in mind.

The best scholarly works are useless if they are not perceived in the community. Our colleagues in Marketing, Sales, Customer Service and Communications work closely with all of the other departments.

In the Marketing team, you plan campaigns, trade shows and conferences. You create marketing materials as well as webpages and help fill our social media accounts with interesting information. The Market Research team provides sound data for taking marketing decisions.

The Sales team sells our products and those of our publishing partners. You use existing – and develop new – sales channels based on a variety of business models.

The Customer Service team is an important partner for our customers. All general information requests related to our products are compiled and shared with Sales and our distribution partners.

As a part of our Communications team, you help plan, conceive and execute internal and external communications for the company as a whole. You maintain contacts with the press and other stakeholders and use media relations to communicate our activities to the wider world.

Last, but not least, we also offer opportunities in Controlling, Accounting and HR Management. In these teams, you support all company activities as an operational and strategic partner with your expertise.

We want an authentic first impression of you. The more information you provide, the better for us to get to know you. Therefore, please make sure that your application is comprehensive: cover letter, CV/resume, reports and evaluations, salary requirements and possible starting date.

Unfortunately, no. The use of our application management tool helps us to manage the application procedure as quickly as possible. This helps you and helps us by making a timely response possible.

If a vacancy is posted on our website, you can apply for it. Some positions have a cut-off date, but this is clearly indicated where this is the case. So if you see it, you can apply for it.

Yes, of course. We are happy to accept general applications through the application management tool. The more specific you are in describing your talents and your ideal position, the better we can determine if there might be a match.

As soon as you have saved your information on our application management tool, you should receive an auto-generated confirmation e-mail. Sometimes, these confirmations end up in your spam folder, so check that first. If it is not there, please contact us, so we can make sure we have your application.

If you have questions about a specific vacancy, please contact our HR team.

The HR team reviews each application very carefully and as quickly as possible. The speed depends not only on the number of applications that we receive, but also other day-to-day factors such as holiday periods or travel. We ask for your understanding if the process takes a bit longer than is ideal. However, if you have questions as to the status of your application, please contact us.