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🗽 New York – Remote

🗽 New York – Remote

💵 $71k - $80k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

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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

• Publish 8-10 books per year, including lead titles • Commission and acquire titles with strong critical, commercial, and backlist potential • Build relationships with literary agents, writers, and subsidiary rights directors • Directly negotiate major terms for potential acquisitions • Develop and edit manuscripts at the structural and line level • Shape and build authors’ careers across titles • Seek growth opportunities and build a cohesive publishing list • Act as liaison between in-house and external partners • Position books for broad and effective audiences with colleagues, authors, and agents • Prepare and present materials at launch meetings and other key publishing-cycle moments • Support other departments through selling points, jacket briefs, and persuasive pitches • Maintain publishing schedules for a full list of titles • Coordinate across departments • Read and provide feedback on team projects and generate ideas

🎯 Requirements

• 6+ years of book publishing experience in the children’s market • Strong picture book and middle grade sensibility, with a demonstrated record of success • Highly developed editing and copywriting skills • Extensive author and agent contacts • Understanding of P&Ls and production schedules • Deep engagement with children’s market, across a range of readerships • Familiarity with negotiating and contract language • Experience and interest in working collaboratively and supporting the success of the team as a whole • Ability to manage a variety of needs and perspectives and communicate in a highly professional manner, with diplomacy, discernment, and care

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote work arrangement tied to the New York, NY office • Equal opportunity employer • Reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities

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