Print Production and Digital Asset Management Manager

Title: Production Manager

Location: Reston, VA - 100% Remote

Duration: Long Term Assignment

Must Have Skills:

Print Production Management (End-to-end experience managing print and digital content workflows, including scheduling, quality control, and issue resolution).

Digital Asset Management (Hands-on experience organizing, maintaining, and deploying digital content/assets across platforms).

Inventory & Logistics Coordination.

Vendor & Stakeholder Management (print vendors, catalog services).

Project & Process Management.

Strong Communication & Collaboration.

Technical Proficiency with Production Tools (Asana, Trello, MS Projects).

Education (AP/Pre-AP or similar) or publishing domain exp is highly preferred.

Bachelor's Degree (ideally in Publishing, Communications, Digital Media). Responsibilities:

Production Management (60%)

• Oversee the end-to-end production process from manuscript to final print production for AP Access team materials, including Instructional Services team materials, Pre-AP Course Framework, Teacher and Student Resources, and Outreach team educator materials.

• Develop and manage production schedules

• Ensure quality control and consistency across all published materials

• Resolve any production issues that arise during the process

• Manage the permissions schedule and process for the development of instructional material.

• Manage digital production of all assets to the AP Professional Learning Platform.

Inventory Management (30%)

• Manage product inventory to ensure most current version and description of resources are available in store and when needed for AP Professional Learning.

• Coordinate with the Catalog Request team to request new item numbers/product descriptions or update current product descriptions as needed.

• Manage the ordering process for materials for AP Summer Institutes, including product descriptions.

• Coordinate with APSI team and train endorsed sites on the ordering process annually

• Maintain most current version of materials to Professional Learning/Consultant Management and International teams

• Manage access of student samples from AP Reading team

Vendor Management (10%)

• Establish strong print vendor relationships to ensure on-time and on-budget delivery

• Responsible for getting electronic files and updates to vendor; for shipping issues or CS cases or escalations, should loop in store support

• Document processes and implement automation where possible.

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of years of print and digital production experience, with a proven track record of leading large-scale content delivery initiatives in an educational context.

• Demonstrated ability managing end-to-end project deliverables.

• Demonstrated capacity for digital asset development

• dvanced proficiency in print production tool, and best practices.

• Excellent problem-solving and planning skills, including high attention to detail and the ability to effectively handle multiple tasks simultaneously.

• Exceptional interpersonal and team collaboration skills, with the ability to work independently to meet internal deadlines.

• bility to work under tight deadlines.

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field.

EEO:

"Mindlance is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in employment on the basis of - Minority/Gender/Disability/Religion/LGBTQI/Age/Veterans."