Job openings

The Berkeley Electronic Press (bepress) provides cutting-edge, Web-based solutions for the academic and scholarly community. We have a number of products and services, including 36 (and counting) high-quality peer-reviewed journals, as well as the world's leading hosted institutional repository service—"Digital Commons™". Our products are licensed by institutions around the world, including the University of California, Yale, Harvard, Columbia, Oxford, the World Bank, and the IMF.

We are a successful fast-growing Berkeley-based company with 40 employees, a collaborative work environment where technical and non-technical colleagues work together to create great software, serve our customers and create the future of academic publishing and scholarly communications solutions.

A brief description of our current openings may be found below.

All jobs feature competitive compensation packages DOE, plus generous benefits.


Position: Experienced Developer

We are currently looking for an experienced Web Programmer with substantial Perl experience. We're looking for someone who has substantial work experience, but is interested in using that as a foundation to help grow a small development team (<= 10 people) into a bigger one. You'll be involved in making architectural decisions, putting new systems and protocols in place, and in general making bepress a better place.
Your day-to-day activities will involve the following, in no particular order:
  • Provide input on architectural decisions on software (and hardware).
  • Mentor more junior programmers, including code review.
  • Assist senior programmers/management on scaling both the organizational and technical infrastructure.
  • Code!
Requirements:
  • 5+ years Perl experience
  • Experience working on a high volume production website
  • Strong Unix skills
  • Strong people skills
  • Strong non-people skills (i.e. technical)
  • Demonstrated history of strong initiative and interest in career development
Desirements:
  • Database skills (up to and including DBA level)
Relevant technical skills:
  • LAMP-based production environments. In this case, that means:
    • Linux
    • Apache (currently 1.3, but we'll need to upgrade to 2.x someday)
    • mod_perl
    • Postgres
    • CVS
Why should I even think about this job?
  • Competitive, market based salary
  • Collaborative atmosphere
  • Really smart co-workers (no, really!)
  • Medical and dental plans included
  • Matching IRA plan
  • Based in the East Bay, and bicycle friendly
To Apply please send your cover letter and resume to:
Paul Zimmer
Vice President, Engineering
510-665-1200 Ext: 115
510-665-1201
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Position: Experienced Postgres Database Engineer

We are currently looking for an experienced sysadmin/ programmer/ database engineer with substantial Postgres experience. This position also will involve substantial programming in Perl.
You'll be involved in making architectural decisions, tuning and making our production database instance more fault tolerant through replication, and helping scale our production and staging database instances. You'll also help us tune the existing codebase as an adjunct to our application programmers. There's substantial opportunity to code external features and/or internal applications as time (and your interest level) permits.
Your day-to-day activities will involve the following, in no particular order:
  • Implement and maintain fault tolerant production and development database instances
  • Provide input on architectural decisions on database (and other technical) issues
  • Implement and enforce (politely) "best practices" SQL coding standards for application engineers via ongoing code review
  • Monitor and scale database instances
  • Build internal tools as appropriate
  • Learn and help extend the bepress codebase
Requirements:
  • 3+ years Postgres experience
  • Experience working on a high volume production website
  • Strong Unix skills
  • Strong people skills
  • Strong non-people skills (i.e. technical)
  • Excellent attention to detail
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or technical field
Desirements:
  • Perl experience
  • Experience with implementing database fault-tolerance, including replication, connection pooling, proxying, etc.
Relevant technical skills:
  • LAMP-based production environments. In this case, that means:
    • Linux
    • Apache (currently 1.3, but we'll need to upgrade to 2.x someday)
    • mod_perl
    • Postgres
    • CVS
Why should I even think about this job?
  • Competitive, market based salary
  • Collaborative atmosphere
  • Really smart co-workers (no, really!)
  • Medical and dental plans included
  • Matching IRA plan
  • Based in the East Bay, and bicycle friendly
To Apply please send your cover letter and resume to:
Paul Zimmer
Vice President, Engineering
510-665-1200 Ext: 115
510-665-1201
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Position: Journal Publisher

The Berkeley Electronic Press (bepress) currently has over 35 employees and publishes 38 electronic peer-reviewed journals, primarily in the social sciences (economics and law) with a growing cluster in STM. Bepress also has a successful software development and licensing division. We license Digital Commons™, the world's leading hosted institutional repository platform, ExpressO, the leading submission platform for law review submission, and EdiKit, a peer-review workflow system.
Journals at bepress feature several innovations in electronic publishing, including our guest access publishing model (recently shortlisted for the ALPSP/Charlesworth award for Publishing Innovation). Edited by leading scholars, including two Nobel Laureates, the journals are steadily growing in popularity and selectivity. Revenue is growing at 40% per year, without price increases. Submissions have grown at 40% per year for three years running, while the number of articles published has grown more slowly as selectivity has increased.
To find out more, visit http://www.bepress.com/journals.
We are currently looking for a Publisher to run our journals division and continue our growth. You will be ultimately responsible for all aspects of our journal publishing business: marketing, sales, acquisitions, policy, and production. Our VP of Journal Sales and our Journal Director will report to you. The division is running smoothly, and, as a result, your position will have substantial time for acquisitions in addition to management, and possibly some marketing if you have a strength in that area. You will need to travel extensively to universities and conferences throughout the U.S. to recruit top academics to found journals and to find opportunities to acquire underperforming journals.
Requirements are a proven track record of personally acquiring successful academic journals, senior-level management experience, and the ability to lead a technologically innovative operation. Experience with accounting and prior P&L responsibility is a big plus, as are comfort and contacts with the library and scholarly community. Living in or relocating to the San Francisco Bay Area is a must. If you can’t do that, please consider our currently posted job for Acquisitions Editor.
To apply, please email your resume and a cover letter to:
Gordon Tibbitts
CEO, The Berkeley Electronic Press
Applications will be reviewed as they are received.
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Position: Acquisitions Editor

The Berkeley Electronic Press (bepress) currently has over 35 employees and publishes 38 electronic peer-reviewed journals, primarily in the social sciences (economics and law) with a growing cluster in STM. Bepress also has a successful software development and licensing division. We license Digital Commons™, the world's leading hosted institutional repository platform, ExpressO, the leading submission platform for law review submission, and EdiKit, a peer-review workflow system.
Journals at bepress feature several innovations in electronic publishing, including our guest access publishing model (recently shortlisted for the ALPSP/Charlesworth award for Publishing Innovation). Edited by leading scholars, including two Nobel Laureates, the journals are steadily growing in popularity and selectivity. Revenue is growing at 40% per year, without price increases. Submissions have grown at 40% per year for three years running, while the number of articles published has grown more slowly as selectivity has increased.
To find out more, visit http://www.bepress.com/journals.
We are looking for an Acquisitions Editor to help our journals division grow substantially. You would recruit top academics to found journals and find opportunities to buy underperforming journals. Extensive travel to universities and conferences throughout the U.S. is required. The successful candidate will have a proven track record of acquiring successful academic journals. Though we are located in Berkeley, CA, working remotely is a possibility.
To apply, please email your resume and a cover letter to:
Gordon Tibbitts
CEO, The Berkeley Electronic Press
Applications will be reviewed as they are received.
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Position: Sales Consultant

The Berkeley Electronic Press (bepress) has a position available in our small sales organization for a sales consultant. Bepress publishes electronic-only journals in the social sciences, law, and STM (science, technology, and medicine). We are looking for someone to sell journal subscriptions to institutions, primarily through their libraries.
The position involves:
  • Making a large number of phone calls every day
  • Working from an extensive database of library contacts
Requirements:
We are looking for someone who is personable and enthusiastic. Prior sales experience is helpful but not required; familiarity with basic office programs such as MS Outlook, Word, and Excel, is highly desirable. In terms of compensation, we're proposing a salary of $31,000/year plus commission on new sales ($2,500/average per sales person/per quarter). The position is eligible for medical, dental and other benefits.
To Apply please send your cover letter and resume to:
Sean O'Doherty
Vice President, Sales

510-665-1200 ext. 131
510-665-1201(fax)
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Position: Client Services Representative

Client Services
We are looking for a client services representative to support the students, faculty and scholars who we serve with our online solutions.
Responsibilities
  • Assisting users with basic inquiries about our online tools
  • Corresponding with users via phone and email in a timely and professional manner
  • Providing general assistance to the client services team as needed. This may include, but is not limited to, light manuscript formatting, basic HTML editing, and product testing.
Required Qualities and Capabilities
  • Bachelor's degree
  • High attention to detail
  • Basic HTML
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills—primarily for phone and email interactions/trainings
  • Ability to pick up new technologies quickly and independently
  • Familiarity with basic word processing programs (e.g., MS Word) and the Internet
  • Enthusiasm and a willingness to contribute beyond a narrow job description
  • Patience
Preferred Qualities and Capabilities
  • CSS
  • Familiarity with converting MS Word documents to PDFs
  • Experience using databases (e.g., FileMaker, GoldMine, Access) to search and edit records
  • Familiarity with academic publishing and university culture a plus
  • Humor
This is a full-time position with great benefits and a busy but casual atmosphere. If you have the above, we want to meet you right away. Salary commensurate with experience.
To Apply please send your cover letter and resume to:
, c/o Eli Windchy.
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