Senior Media Editor

🔥 19 minutes ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $60k - $72k / 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

• Plan, initiate, and oversee projects in coordination with the Program Manager, Development Editor, Content Producer, Product, and Production • Keep project stakeholders informed about status, issues, scheduling, and budget • Share evolving information from Product, Engineering, and Program Management • Assess user needs and participate in status and exploratory meetings with fellow editors to plan content that works effectively with platform functionality • Recommend and implement changes to schedules, budgets, or content based on upcoming functionality • Correspond with multimedia authors about products and tasks, helping them prioritize and deliver quality, on-time content for production • Identify, assess, hire, and correspond with vendors and freelancers on multimedia content and projects • Manage assigned in-flight projects, assessing status, connecting with colleagues, authors, and vendors, and continuing or revising workflows as needed • Assess processes for efficiency opportunities and pilot AI and automation in internal and authoring processes • Document effective practices and measure changes in turnaround time, cost, or capacity while maintaining editorial quality • Evaluate and negotiate input from marketing and sales on customer-related requests • Provide copy, preliminary files, and tables of contents for marketing and sales tools • Attend relevant conferences, sales presentations, and company meetings to promote products and gather market information

🎯 Requirements

• A bachelor's degree or higher, preferably in a discipline associated with the role • 5+ years of editorial experience in educational publishing or educational technology, including 3+ years of media editorial experience • Senior-level judgment and leadership • Organizational and project management skills, including managing multiple projects at once in a fast-paced environment, prioritizing effectively, working through problems with a group, and staying within an approved budget • Attention to detail, self-motivation, and a commitment to quality • Written and verbal communication skills adaptable for different audiences • Experience managing authors and freelancers, talking with users of products, and collaborating across functions with internal stakeholders • Understanding of how digital content and platform functionality work together • Interest in finding and assessing authors, freelancers, and vendors • Facility with AI prompting and with building or testing AI tools, and understanding of the legal and ethical limits of AI use • Experience with Google Workspace • Preferred: background in high school teaching, publishing, or educational technology • Preferred: 1+ years of instructional design experience • Preferred: experience with Google Apps Script or coding • Must be able to multi-task and concentrate in an open office work environment • Must be able to work more than 40 hours per week as needed

🏖️ Benefits

• Company bonus plan • Medical insurance (HSA Qualified, EPO, and PPO plan options), HSA + Employer Contribution, vision insurance, and dental insurance • Contributions to your 401(k) retirement account through Fidelity (US) / Registered Retirement Savings Plan (Canada) • Paid time off, sick time, floating holidays, and paid holidays (Spring Reset Day, Juneteenth, Indigenous Peoples' Day, Election Day, and more) • Employee Assistance Program, Education Assistance Program and Commuter Assistance (for those in qualified circumstances) • 100% employer-paid life and AD&D insurance • Mental health support through Headspace • Fully remote work arrangement