Print Production Manager

Summary

Kiddom is transforming K–12 education by bringing high-quality curriculum, instructional tools, and student analytics together in one coherent system. They are seeking a highly organized Print Production Manager to oversee the end-to-end production of K–12 print materials, ensuring efficient workflows and quality assurance throughout the production lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Manage multiple concurrent print programs from digital content lock through printer release
• Build and maintain production schedules, milestones, and release plans
• Coordinate cross-functional teams, external vendors, and printers
• Ensure student editions, teacher editions, translated materials, samples, and print packages are delivered accurately and on schedule to the supply chain team
• Proactively identify production risks and drive resolution
• Ensure Kiddom's established print production, quality assurance (QA), and errata processes are executed consistently
• Manage print file versioning, approvals, and release readiness
• Coordinate cover production from request through final approval
• Manage NIMAC submissions and ensure compliance requirements are met
• Track print issues and coordinate corrections through established workflows
• Maintain accurate production dashboards and reporting
• Identify opportunities to automate repetitive production tasks
• Partner with Product and Engineering to improve production tools and workflows
• Leverage AI and automation to improve quality assurance, metadata validation, and document comparison
• Reduce manual work through improved systems and operational efficiencies
• Recommend scalable solutions that improve speed, quality, and visibility

Skills

• 3 - 5+ years managing print production, publishing operations, or production project management
• Experience coordinating multiple complex publishing projects simultaneously
• Strong understanding of print production, prepress, QA, version control, and vendor management
• Experience working with cross-functional teams
• Excellent project management and organizational skills
• Experience using project management platforms such as Jira, Airtable, Smartsheet, Workfront, or similar
• Experience improving operational processes through automation or technology
• Strong communication skills and exceptional attention to detail
• K–12 educational publishing experience
• Experience managing accessibility or NIMAC submissions
• Experience with Adobe Acrobat, InDesign workflows, or print preflight tools
• Familiarity with AI, workflow automation, Google Apps Script, Python, APIs, or similar technologies

Qualifications

Must Haves

• 3 - 5+ years managing print production, publishing operations, or production project management
• Experience coordinating multiple complex publishing projects simultaneously
• Strong understanding of print production, prepress, QA, version control, and vendor management
• Experience working with cross-functional teams
• Excellent project management and organizational skills
• Experience using project management platforms such as Jira, Airtable, Smartsheet, Workfront, or similar
• Experience improving operational processes through automation or technology
• Strong communication skills and exceptional attention to detail

Nice to Haves

• K–12 educational publishing experience
• Experience managing accessibility or NIMAC submissions
• Experience with Adobe Acrobat, InDesign workflows, or print preflight tools
• Familiarity with AI, workflow automation, Google Apps Script, Python, APIs, or similar technologies

Benefits

• Meaningful equity
• Health insurance benefits: medical (various PPO/HMO/HSA plans), dental, vision, disability and life insurance
• 401k plan
• One Medical membership (in participating locations)
• Flexible vacation time policy (subject to internal approval). Average use 4 weeks off per year.
• 10 paid sick days per year (pro rated depending on start date)
• Paid holidays
• Paid bereavement leave
• Paid family leave after birth/adoption. Minimum of 16 paid weeks for birthing parents, 10 weeks for caretaker parents. Meant to supplement benefits offered by State.
• Commuter and FSA plans