Senior Book Editor – $75,000 to $80,000 per year
At Insight Editions and Weldon Owen, our Senior Editors are experienced, enthusiastic, collaborative, and passionate about the subjects we publish and are committed to creating content that connects with our readers. Weldon Owen is looking for a talented Editor to help drive our children’s program. The Senior Editor will work collaboratively with editorial, design, freelancers, and production staff to get high-quality manuscripts delivered on time and on budget. You will oversee, and as assigned, directly edit select projects with high standards and uncompromising quality throughout the entire editorial process. You will be responsible for researching, hiring, and managing the best talent available while developing concepts, formats, and content as needed to meet the Insight Editions editorial standards and uncompromising quality of design-led books. Through outstanding organization, oversight, and keen management skill, the Senior Editor keeps all projects moving smoothly through the editorial pipeline up to prepress, ensuring products publish on plan, on spec, and with the highest editorial standards applied to every project.
This position will develop and acquire books for ages 8–12 with at least 5+ years of recent experience. You will be the visionary behind each project and responsible for keeping everyone involved, engaged, and on schedule. An ability to manage many moving parts on a variety of projects while working closely with authors and illustrators is required.
Qualifications:
● A minimum of 5 years of experience with a proven track record acquiring, developing, and editing illustrated books.
● This position works closely with editorial, freelancers, managing editorial, design, and all creative services teams to ensure manuscripts are delivered as early as possible so that we can maximize opportunities to build preorders and supply necessary materials for long-lead media and sales and marketing schedules
● Participating in marketing, publicity, and promotion planning to support material needs that are required to create consumer awareness, increase net sales, and create consumer awareness needed to drive traffic to retail both online and through brick and mortar
● Acquiring and editing several projects per year while leading, managing, and problem-solving active projects assigned to freelance and other internal teams
● Researching industry trends and developing new book concepts and formats
● Experience managing budgets and P&Ls within the publishing environment
● Ability to manage a team of freelancers and work collaboratively within the internal editorial and design teams
● Experience working with licensors is a plus.
Key responsibilities:
● Acquire and edit approximately 15-20 projects per year
● Manage projects from start to finish from initial concept to finished books
● Research industry trends and develop new book concepts and formats
● Write sales, marketing, and cover copy
● Develop relationships with authors, freelancers, and agents
● Liaise with sales and marketing, and oversee the development of marketing collateral
● Create project budgets and manage schedules
● Experience with Adobe Creative Suite, and InDesign specifically, are required