Job Title: Deputy Editor, Nature Progress Tissue Engineering
Location: Shanghai, Beijing, Pune, New Delhi - hybrid working model
Closing date: 30th October 2026 (candidates will be considered as they apply)
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About The Role
We are seeking a Deputy Editor with a strong background in research and editorial experience to join Nature Progress Tissue Engineering, a new open access nature portfolio journal for tissue engineering, bioengineering, and biomaterials. This new launch will publish research that focuses on the creation, maturation, integration and clinical translation of engineered tissues and organs.
The journal will initially be run jointly with Nature Communications, with a combined internal team and a joint Chief Editor, but with a separate Editorial Board.
The new journal will offer an open access avenue to investigators seeking to publish their work in a journal dedicated to serve their specific Community. It will complement our other Nature Portfolio open access titles, such as Nature Communications, the other Nature Progress journals, the Communications series journals, Scientific Reports as well as the suite of NPJs.
The Deputy Editor will be responsible for leading the journal’s editorial strategy, liaising closely with the Chief Editor for building and managing a diverse and efficient Editorial Board and for managing part of the team of internal editors.
Key responsibilities of the Deputy Editor include support of launch activities, outreach to relevant communities and ensuring the Editorial Board Members cover the full breadth of subject areas and are engaged.
This is a permanent position within the Nature Portfolio. The successful candidate will primarily support the new open access nature portfolio journal and may collaborate closely with other Nature Portfolio journals as needed. Please note that responsibilities and journal assignments may evolve over time in response to portfolio needs.
The position is offered on a full-time basis (starting as soon as possible).
The responsibilities include:
- Working with the Chief Editor to define journal aims and scope, develop the website, plan outreach activities, work with internal teams to set up the journal.
- Line-managing part of the internal team for the new journal.
- Growing the editorial board to ensure adequate subject area coverage across the topics covered by the journal, in consultation with the in-house team and the Chief Editor.
- Overseeing and developing Editorial Board Member engagement with the journal.
- Handling original research papers and working closely with other editors on all aspects of the editorial process, including manuscript selection and overseeing peer review, at a 50% workload of a Senior Editor.
- Liaising extensively with editors at other journals in the Nature Portfolio family and with experts in the international scientific community.
- Attending conferences and visiting research institutions (in person and online).
- Commissioning Reviews and Comment articles and writing Editorials.
- Suggesting and overseeing Collections according to Collections programme.
- Ensuring Production receives manuscripts in an appropriate and complete state.
- Other tasks as required.
To be considered for the position, you will have:
- A PhD (or equivalent) in a discipline immediately relevant to tissue engineering or related fields.
- Previous experience co-ordinating peer review and making independent manuscript decisions within a world-class STM publishing company.
- Experience of working with an external editorial board is desirable.
- A genuine passion for scientific communication and promoting rigor and transparency in reporting research.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills and fluency in English (written and spoken).
- An eagerness to engage with scientists worldwide, learn more about them and their research, and help them learn more about us and what we are looking for in the papers we seek to publish.
- Strong workload management- and organisational skills.
- The ability to work independently and as part of a team.
- Thorough knowledge of the scientific community and its needs.
How to apply?
Applicants should include a CV, a cover letter explaining their interest in the post and a Max. 500-word outline of their vision for this new journal, including the publishing landscape, opportunities and potential challenges. Applicants should also state their preferred office of employment. Closing date 30th October 2026.
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