Jobs

Help us achieve our mission to make research outputs easier to find, cite, link, assess, and reuse. We are ~49 fully remote people spanning 12 countries from East to West (e.g. Hong Kong to Oakland) and from South to North (e.g. Quito to Amsterdam) and we all like to interact with and co-create with our engaged community.

We take our work seriously but usually not ourselves… so come and work with us - where else can you do something a bit geeky and important that is also sometimes fun?!

Take a look at our current team and check out the org chart to see where our vacancies fit in. We especially encourage applications from people with backgrounds historically under-represented in research and scholarly communications.

Equal opportunities commitment

Crossref is committed to a policy of non-discrimination and equal opportunity for all employees and qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, pregnancy or a condition related to pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, uniform service member status, or any other protected class under applicable law. Crossref will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities in accordance with applicable law. We regularly review and revise our code of conduct.


Please contact our HR Manager, Michelle Cancel, with any questions.

Program Technical Lead

Would you like to help shape the future of open infrastructure that serves as the backbone of global scholarly communication? Join Crossref as the Program Technical Lead. Location: Remote and global, to partially overlap with working hours in European time zones. Type: Full-time Remuneration: 120k USD or local equivalent. Note this is a general guide (as there is no universal currency) and local currency analysis will take place before the final offer. Benefits: Check out our Employee Handbook for more details on paid time off, unlimited sick time, paid parental and medical leaves, and more. Reports to: Director of Technology, Dominika Tkaczyk Timeline: Advertise in August-September and offer in October-November. About the role Crossref operates an open infrastructure that connects thousands of scholarly publishers, millions of research articles, and research objects to serve an increasingly diverse set of communities within scholarly publishing, research, funding, and beyond. Our system acts as the backbone for preserving and sharing the scholarly record. We offer a wide array of services to ensure that scholarly research metadata is registered, linked, and distributed. When members register their content with us, we collect both bibliographic and non-bibliographic metadata. We process it so that connections can be made between publications, people, organizations, and other associated outputs. We preserve the metadata we receive as a critical part of the scholarly record. We also make it openly available across a range of interfaces and formats so that the community can use it and build tools with it.

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Last updated: 2025-August-01