Publisher Impact Consultant (Research Seminars)

Location: London (hybrid)

About Cassyni

Cassyni helps leading publishers and institutions run, publish and enhance research seminars as citable, AI-powered video content. We work with organisations such as Springer Nature, Elsevier, Sage and Cambridge University Press to turn seminars into a scalable channel for author engagement, submissions and citations.

Role overview

You will work with publishing partners to design and run seminar programmes that deliver measurable business value. This is a proactive, customer-facing, non-quota role with a consulting flavour: you’ll help customers identify use cases, shape their seminar strategy, support implementation, and use data to evidence impact and inform renewal discussions.
You’ll work closely with Cassyni’s founders and product team, bringing structured feedback from publishers and institutions into the roadmap.

What you will do

Strategy and use-case discovery
  • Work with publishing partners to identify seminar series and programmes that support their goals (e.g. submissions, citations, new journal launches, community building).
  • Map how Cassyni fits into existing editorial and marketing workflows across journals, books and institutional programmes.
  • Help customers prioritise where seminars can create the most value across their portfolios.
Publisher and editor engagement
  • Proactively reach out to managing/commissioning editors, EiCs, editorial boards and senior researchers to explain how seminars can benefit their journal, research group or department.
  • Help editors and boards design effective seminar series: topics, formats, cadence, and targeting.
  • Coordinate with author marketing teams on light-touch promotion plans that fit within their constraints.
Programme execution and improvement
  • Support customers through the implementation of new seminar series, from concept through to first events and ongoing optimisation.
  • Identify risks early (e.g. stalled series, low author uptake, weak promotion) and propose concrete remedial actions.
Impact measurement and storytelling
  • Use Cassyni and publisher data to measure the impact of seminars on:
    • Author engagement and audience reach
    • New submissions and publications
    • Citations and usage
  • Develop clear reports and case studies that explain these impacts to publishing, editorial and marketing stakeholders.
  • Use data to refine strategy and feed recommendations into renewal and expansion discussions (without owning a sales quota).
Product feedback
  • Synthesise feedback from publisher and institutional conversations into clear, actionable input for the product team.
  • Help test and shape new features, especially around analytics, AI and editor-facing workflows.

What you’ll bring

  • Experience in scholarly / STM publishing, ideally in roles involving journals, books, editorial or author marketing.
  • Ability to understand how publishers create and measure value (submissions, citations, portfolio strategy, society relationships).
  • Confidence interacting with senior stakeholders: EiCs, editorial board members, publishing directors and marketing leads.
  • Strong communication skills, including the ability to explain data and impact in a concise and persuasive way.
  • Comfort working with data to answer practical questions (e.g. using dashboards, spreadsheets or BI tools; you don’t need to be a data scientist).
  • Interest in technology and AI, and curiosity about how they can improve researcher and author workflows.
  • Enjoyment of a small, dynamic startup environment: hands-on, low bureaucracy, direct access to founders and product.

Nice to have

  • Existing network across major academic publishers or societies.
  • Experience running or supporting webinars, virtual events or seminar programmes.
  • Familiarity with analytics tools or strong aptitude to learn.
  • Experience developing written case studies or success stories.

Working pattern

  • London-based role with a preference for in-person collaboration.
  • Typical in-office days: Tuesday–Thursday, with flexibility on Monday/Friday as needed.