Starting Pay Range
$3,653.85 - $4,326.92 - Bi-Weekly Depending on experience
Job Description:
About Skyrocket
With an emphasis serving schools with diverse and low-socioeconomic student populations and non-traditional learning environments, Skyrocket™ leadership has over a century’s worth of combined experience leading schools and operational support teams. Skyrocket’s™ niche expertise is in the intersection between academic and administrative performance.
Essential Functions include, but are not limited to the following:
● Owns and oversees the end-to-end publishing lifecycle for Skyrocket curriculum products across print, digital, and application-
based platforms.
● Conducts a comprehensive assessment of existing publishing processes and leads the redesign and implementation of a
streamlined, scalable publishing operation.
● Develops clearly defined workflows, ownership structures, approval processes, quality gates, timelines, and accountability
standards for every stage of publishing.
● Identifies repetitive, manual, or error-prone processes and determines opportunities for automation, AI-assisted workflows,
systems integration, and technology-based quality controls.
● Evaluates and recommends publishing technologies and systems, including workflow/project-management platforms, content
management systems, digital asset management, structured content solutions, automated QA tools, and other publishing
technologies.
● Oversees editorial and production processes including copyediting, formatting, design handoffs, continuity review, quality
assurance, final audits, print proofs, digital conversion, accessibility, audio/text-to-speech review, and product release.
● Establishes strong version-control and change-management practices to ensure teams are working from accurate and current
source materials across print and digital formats.
● Creates measurable QA standards and checkpoints designed to identify errors earlier in the production process and significantly
reduce errors reaching final products.
● Develops dashboards, reporting, and operational metrics to monitor publishing status, cycle time, errors, rework, bottlenecks,
workload, and on-time delivery.
● Oversees publishing schedules and ensures projects move efficiently through production while meeting organizational and
school/client release deadlines.
● Leads and develops publishing staff and coordinates the work of editors, designers, curriculum staff, contractors, vendors,
technology teams, and other contributors involved in the publishing lifecycle.
● Establishes clear expectations for external vendors and contractors, including deliverables, quality standards, timelines,
communication protocols, and accountability.
● Partners closely with Curriculum leadership to establish efficient handoffs between content development and production,
allowing curriculum experts to focus on instructional quality while Publishing owns the integrity and execution of the production
process.
● Works with Print operations and external vendors to ensure print-ready files are accurate, appropriately reviewed, and
delivered according to production schedules.
● Creates and maintains publishing SOPs, documentation, templates, standards, and training materials.
● Develops a culture of continuous improvement in which recurring errors are analyzed for root causes and processes are
modified to prevent recurrence rather than relying solely on additional manual review.
● Performs other duties as assigned.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required:
● Deep understanding of end-to-end publishing operations, preferably within K–12 curriculum, educational publishing, EdTech, or
another complex content-production environment.
● Strong understanding of both print and digital publishing workflows.
● Demonstrated ability to evaluate and redesign complex operational processes.
● Strong knowledge of editorial production, copyediting, design workflows, proofing, prepress/print production, digital…