Senior Production Editor

🕒 August 18

🗽 New York – Remote

🗽 New York – Remote

💵 $70k - $75k / 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

• Production-edit approximately 35 to 40 books per year, or 15 to 25 books at a time • Manage the production editorial process from manuscript assessment through proofreading, indexing, and checking text, photo inserts, and jackets/covers • Handle production editorial work for original fiction and nonfiction titles from manuscript to bound book, including paperback conversions • Electronically style manuscripts for design and composition • Hire freelance copyeditors, proofreaders, and indexers, and review their work through all passes • Clean and prepare copyedited, author-reviewed manuscripts for design and typesetting • Collate author and freelancer changes in page proofs and resolve queries before transmittal • Copyedit jacket/cover copy and ancillary marketing materials, and proofread jackets/covers, insert captions, and additional material • Collaborate with Production, Design, and Editorial departments on scheduling, editorial revisions, and Legal directives • Update project progress in digital tracking systems using file-naming conventions and documented best practices • Provide task- and project-specific support for other production editors during absences

🎯 Requirements

• Extensive background in adult trade fiction and nonfiction • Ability to work independently and as part of a team • Ability to anticipate problems, troubleshoot solutions, and prioritize • Strong working knowledge of grammar and punctuation • Expertise with the Chicago Manual of Style • Meticulous attention to detail and ability to work under pressure • Good oral and verbal communication • Ability to meet deadlines while managing multiple projects • Tactful collaboration, common sense, and initiative • Seven to ten years’ experience as a production editor, preferably in adult trade fiction/nonfiction • High-level copyediting and proofreading experience • Technical proficiency in Microsoft Word, Adobe Acrobat including PDF markup tools, and Workflow/Metadata systems • Bachelor’s degree or commensurate experience

🏖️ Benefits

• Equal opportunity employment • Reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities