Associate Manager, Pdf Production & Delivery

Have you built your career around producing complex PDFsand working with automated publishing workflows? Are you someone others turn to when a production issue needs troubleshooting?

Do you want to improve and scale the automated workflows behind high-volume learning content,including making digital PDFs more accessible?

CFA Institute is looking for an
Associate Manager, PDF Production & Delivery
to own and optimise the day-to-day health of our PDF production workflows. You will be atrustedsourceofexpertise, supporting Content Production and Editorial team members, resolving complex productionissuesand improving the automated processes used to create learning materials across our credentialing programs.

You will work across both print and digital PDF production, with a particular opportunity to improve how accessibility is built into automated, high-volume publishing workflows. This is a new individual contributor role where your technical productionexpertisewill directly influence the quality and effectiveness of the content delivered to learners.

• Own and optimise the day-to-day health of automated PDF production workflows, ensuring reliable, high-quality outputs.

• Act as a key escalation point for Content Production Specialists, troubleshooting complex PDF production,formattingandrenderingissues and helping others resolve problems effectively.

• Work with
  Typefi
  in astructured-content publishingenvironmentto produce and improve PDF outputs,identifying opportunities to make processes more efficient and robust.

• Support both digital and print production, ensuring PDFs are appropriately configured for their intended output, including print export requirements.

• Apply and reinforce accessibility best practices for digital PDFs,identifying ways to embed accessible tagging, semanticstructureand presentation patterns into automated production workflows at scale.

• Design,testand implement workflow improvements within established standards, including regression testing following workflow or system changes.

• Work within broader structured-content workflows that supporte
  
  Puband other digital learning outputs, whilemaintainingprimary ownership of PDF production.

• Partner with Content Architecture, Content Technology, Editorial,Production and other teams to resolve issues that cross systems or require broader workflow changes.

• Act as a trustedPDFproduction advisor,mentoring colleagues and helping prevent recurring production issues.

• Maintain clear, practical workflow documentation and reinforce consistent production and quality standards.

• Strong hands-on experience in
  PDF production and publishing workflows
  , ideally gained within educational publishing, digitalpublishingor a comparable production environment.

• Demonstrable experience working withXML-based,automatedor structured-content publishing systems and workflow s,including troubleshooting complex production issues.

• Experience with
  Typefi
  for PDF production would be particularly valuable given its central rolein our automated PDF workflow.

• Practical knowledge of preparing PDFs for print, includingexportsettingsand working with commercial printing requirements.

• Experience applying accessibility requirements and best practices for digital PDFs, with the ability to contribute to improving accessibility within automated workflows.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with evidence of diagnosing production problems,identifying root causes and implementing durable solutions.

• Experience supporting,mentoringor training colleagues using production workflows and tools.

• The ability to work independently, exercise sound judgement and collaborate effectively across production, editorial and technology teams.

• Join a newly created role withreal…