Senior Designer, MCPG

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🕒 March 28

🗽 New York – Remote

🗽 New York – Remote

💵 $70k - $85k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

✍️ Designer

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Macmillan

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1001 - 5000 employees

📱 Media

📚 Education

Media • Education

Macmillan is a leading global publishing company and home to a wide range of imprints that publish adult and children’s fiction, nonfiction, and educational materials. Part of the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group, Macmillan also operates Macmillan Learning and Macmillan Education, providing interactive course solutions, higher education content, language learning, and school curriculum publishing across dozens of countries. The company focuses on supporting authors, educators, students, and institutions with world-class content and digital learning tools.

📋 Description

• Deliver original, effective cover comps and polished final covers that are visually compelling and fresh for the market • Design and manage all stages of book packaging (jackets, covers, interiors), from early concept to final bound book • Closely collaborate on book projects with the editorial team, creative director, and production department • Assist Art Director on design tasks • Work with freelancers, illustrators, photographers, and agents • Route material for approval, maintain schedules, prepare files for output and manage proofing process • Work with other teams/departments to ensure materials requests are met in a timely and effective manner

🎯 Requirements

• At least 4-6 years bookmaking experience, ideally in children’s publishing or equivalent • Degree in graphic design or other related fields or equivalent work experience. • Adobe Creative Suite, Google Suite, Mac Platform • Expert in color theory and design fundamentals • Exceptional portfolio displaying strong typographic skills • A keen interest in and understanding of the publishing industry • Knowledge of technical process of book production and printing • An ability to receive constructive feedback and proactively seek out compromise with colleagues • Strong written and verbal communication skills • Motivated to learn from and collaborate with team members • A love of reading.

🏖️ Benefits

• Macmillan is proud to be an equal opportunity employer consistently striving to foster a culture where everyone belongs. • We welcome applicants of all backgrounds and identities. • Qualified applicants are evaluated without regard to race, color, religion, age, ethnicity, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability status, physical ability, neurodiversity, genetic information, protected veteran status, family and economic status and background or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. • We prohibit discrimination of any kind and will provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities in accordance with applicable law.