Senior Editor

🕒 September 9

🗽 New York – Remote

🗽 New York – Remote

💵 $80k - $98k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

✏️ Editor

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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 critical, commercial, and backlist potential • Build relationships with literary agents, writers, and subsidiary rights directors • Negotiate major terms for potential acquisitions • Develop and edit manuscripts at structural and line levels • Shape and build authors’ careers across titles • Identify growth opportunities and build a cohesive fiction list • Liaise between in-house and external partners • Position books for broad and appropriate audiences • Prepare and present materials at launch meetings and key publishing-cycle moments • Support departments with selling points, jacket briefs, and persuasive pitches • Maintain publishing schedules for a full list of titles • Coordinate across departments • Mentor colleagues, read and provide feedback on projects, and generate editorial ideas • Partner with an editorial colleague to supervise one employee

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of book publishing experience or the equivalent • Highly developed editing and copywriting skills • Extensive contacts in writing, journalism, agent communities and beyond • Understanding of P&Ls, production schedules, and terms • Deep engagement with the fiction landscape and market across a range of readerships • Familiarity with negotiating and contract language • Experience and interest in working collaboratively and supporting team success • Ability to manage varied needs and perspectives and communicate professionally, with diplomacy, discernment, and care

🏖️ Benefits

• Equal opportunity employment • Reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities • Mentorship opportunities • Exempt status