Meet the team
Would you like to discuss how you can improve your institutional business with us?
We look forward to hearing from you!
Philipp Hess
CEO
A decade of experience in Academic Publishing and platform development. Formerly Knowledge Unlatched, Kiron & ResearchGate
Piotr Godek
CTO
Piotr is a software engineer and architect with over 25 years of experience in software systems for various industries.
Will Smith
Head of Content Workflow
Will brings over eight years of experience in academic publishing operations, journal management and workflow optimisation. Formerly Karger Publishers, Frontiers & Elsevier.
Jade Heyman
Head of Content Workflow
Jade is an Open Access specialist with experience working for national consortia and academic publishers, including Jisc and the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Publishing Gateway Partnerships
Partnership: Signals
Publishing Gateway has partnered with Signals, which delivers deep research integrity evaluations of any manuscript or publication. With retraction rates rising and peer review manipulation a growing concern, the partnership builds integrity into the workflow rather than bolting it on. Signals evaluates manuscripts against the Signals Data Graph, a curated network of more than 500 million publications, applying 30+ automated checks and returning transparent, evidence-backed insights within minutes. Manuscripts can be screened before reaching a reviewer, and published articles monitored continuously. Backed by $1.1M in seed funding from ACS Publications and Enago, Signals gives editorial teams confidence at every stage.
Partnership: Global Campus
Publishing Gateway has partnered with Global Campus, the AI-powered knowledge navigation platform that connects institutions, publishers and funders with global academic expertise in seconds. The partnership tackles one of publishing's most persistent bottlenecks: finding the right peer reviewers, quickly and at scale. Rather than relying on keyword searches or surface metrics, Global Campus analyses the actual content of research to surface the most relevant experts from its global index. Integrated into Publishing Gateway's institutional workflow, this brings speed and precision to reviewer identification, alongside journal matching and candidate scouting, supporting faster editorial decisions and transparent, high-quality peer review institutions expect.
Partnership: ReviewerOne
Publishing Gateway is a publisher-neutral platform that enables academic institutions to take stewardship of the research published under their name. With publishing costs opaque and article processing charge budgets under growing pressure, it builds oversight into the workflow rather than leaving it to reconcile after the fact. Publishing Gateway gives institutions a single, standardised route for journal articles, covering submission, integrity checking, peer review, production and journal recommendation, with defined turnaround times, article-level cost centre allocation, and coverage confirmed at the point of upload. It works as a pre-submission quality layer that delivers cleaner, compliant manuscripts into whichever editorial management system a journal already uses, each accompanied by a structured quality report. Backed by a partner network supplying research integrity evaluation, reviewer discovery, peer review and production, Publishing Gateway gives research offices and libraries the governance to steer their publishing process rather than observe it.
We're looking for you!
Institutional Sales
You'll be the driving force behind Publishing Gateway's institutional partnerships, building relationships with academic libraries, research offices and university administrations across the open access landscape. From first contact through to contract, you'll own the sales pipeline and represent our publisher-neutral positioning: the institution stays in control, we provide the infrastructure. Ideal for someone who thrives on relationship-building in a market that's still being defined, and who wants to shape how institutions think about managing open access at scale.
Admin & Workflow
Publishing Gateway's platform lives and dies by the details: accurate article-level workflows, clean data and processes institutions can rely on. In this role you'll keep the operational backbone of the platform running smoothly — administrative processes tied to article and workflow management, coordination across our partner stack, and the kind of quiet reliability that lets everyone else move faster. A great fit for someone organised, detail-oriented and comfortable owning processes end to end.
Operations & Onboarding
You'll be the face of Publishing Gateway for new institutional partners — guiding libraries and research offices through onboarding, making sure implementations go smoothly and keeping day-to-day operations on track. This is a hands-on, generalist role at an early-stage company: expect variety, direct impact and close collaboration with the founding team as we bring institutions onto the platform.
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