Platform Product Manager
Frontiers Media
Platform Product Manager
Frontiers Media
Facilitates peer-reviewed academic publishing
Frontiers Media · Warsaw, Poland (Hybrid) · Full-time · Posted 2026-08-12
Workplace: hybrid
Department: Software Engineering
About Frontiers
At Frontiers, our purpose is simple yet ambitious: to make science open. We believe open science empowers the global scientific community to accelerate discovery and develop the solutions needed for healthy lives on a healthy planet.
We are one of the world’s largest and most influential open-access research publishers. Every article we publish is peer-reviewed and quality-certified, ensuring research is accessible to everyone, everywhere. To date, Frontiers research has been viewed over 4 billion times, demonstrating the real-world impact of science without barriers.
Joining Frontiers means being part of a global, mission-driven organization at the intersection of science, technology, and innovation — working alongside passionate colleagues who care deeply about advancing knowledge for the benefit of society. To learn more about our impact and culture, please watch this video.
The Mission
At Frontiers, we are rewriting the rules of scientific publishing. Behind every product team sit the shared technical services that the whole publishing platform depends on. Today these are Identity & Access Management (IAM) and Messaging (transactional email and GDPR-compliant consent) — representative examples of this kind of shared service, with the portfolio expected to grow over time. They are owned by our Platform Shared Services team, and we are looking for a Platform Product Manager to own their strategy and roadmap.
This is not an end-user product role. Your customers are Frontiers' own engineering teams (and, increasingly, the services and agents they build): you run IAM and Messaging as products, measured by adoption, developer experience, reliability, integration time, security posture and cost — not user-facing metrics. You'll form a delivery triad with the team's Platform Engineering Manager and Senior Engineers: you own the What and Why, they own the How.
The Technical Context
You will own the roadmap for the team's shared-service lines — today IAM and Messaging.
Contracts as the product: REST + async APIs, JWT shape and scopes, consent semantics, versioning and backward compatibility — high blast radius, consumed org-wide.
Observability & AI: New Relic, Prometheus/Grafana; the sub-department's AI-First Delivery tooling (Cursor, MCP, the Technology Framework as executable context) is available to the team.
What You'll Do
Nice to Have
How We Measure Success in This Role
Why This Role Is Exciting
IAM and Messaging are leverage: get them right and every team at Frontiers ships faster and safer. You'll turn "plumbing" into genuine products — with real customers, contracts and adoption — at the exact moment AI is multiplying how much code (and how many integrations) those teams produce. All in service of a mission that matters: making science open for everyone.
We prioritise office presence and emphasise in-person collaboration, but also offer appropriate adjustments where needed, in line with company policy
Extra wellbeing days on top of your annual leave allowance
Up to 3 paid volunteering days each year
24/7 confidential Employee Assistance Programme (wellbeing, mental health, legal & financial support)
Learning & development support via the Frontiers Learning Hub
Equal opportunity statement
Frontiers actively embraces diversity and is a safe and welcoming workplace. Recruitment is free from discrimination – including based on race, national or ethnic origin, age, religion, disability, sex, gender identity or sexual orientation. With employees from more than 50 different nations, our diversity creates vibrant teams and constantly challenges us to appreciate multiple perspectives.
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Facilitates peer-reviewed academic publishing
Frontiers is a digital publisher in academia that hosts a broad collection of peer-reviewed research across more than 1,500 disciplines. Authors pay article publishing charges (APCs) to have their papers reviewed and published, and Frontiers provides the editorial and peer-review process that leads to a decision typically within about 61 days. The platform emphasizes scientific integrity by strengthening quality control to combat fraudulent science and to ensure trustworthy results. It also uses advanced technology, including satellite data and modeling, to support its publishing and to illustrate scientific phenomena. The company’s goal is to serve researchers worldwide by offering a reliable, accessible venue for publishing and disseminating high-quality scientific work while sustaining its operations through APCs.
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