Associate Director, Production

🔥 13 hours ago

🗽 New York – Remote

🗽 New York – Remote

💵 $105k - $115k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👔 Director

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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

• Lead the frontlist production team for the Feiwel & Friends, Henry Holt, and Godwin Books imprints, plus Conversions for MCPG • Coach and support production managers while managing a list of 40–45 titles annually • Oversee production of picture books, chapter books, novelty books, and graphic novels • Liaise with Editorial, Design, Managing Editorial, and Publishers • Own 4-color workflows across the group • Maintain department-wide workflows, the Safety Testing program, and offsite materials storage • Supervise production and manufacturing activities including scheduling, prepress, estimating, printing, and binding • Manage seasonal launch tasks for the team • Maintain quality standards and oversee vendor management • Ensure compliance with corporate workflows, procedures, project data entry, vendor contracting, archiving, and project closeout • Provide editorial with product delivery options and investigate manufacturing options • Track schedules, budgets, quality, and vendor assignments • Attend weekly status meetings and coordinate project details and department protocols • Manage a medium-sized title list through production and manufacturing • Maintain vendor relationships, negotiate non-contract project prices, evaluate vendor performance, and oversee quality-control reviews and resolutions

🎯 Requirements

• 15 years of book production experience, including at least 10 years in children's publishing • Excellent knowledge of all facets of book production and manufacturing • Highly organized and detail-minded • Basic understanding of the publishing business and how production issues affect company success • Ability to prioritize • Collaborative professional work style • Ability to adapt to changes, delays, and unexpected events • Ability to anticipate, identify, and resolve problems in a timely manner • Working knowledge of Biblio and RSuite desirable • Knowledge of the Google platform desirable

🏖️ Benefits

• Equal opportunity employer • Reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities • Remote work classification