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Macmillan Learning

Editorial Assistant, Wednesday and Saturday Books

🇺🇸 New York, NY

🕑 Full-Time

💰 $50K

💻 Other

🗓️ July 22nd, 2025

Edtech.com's Summary

Macmillan Publishers is hiring an Editorial Assistant for Wednesday and Saturday Books. The role involves supporting the editorial director and managing all stages of book production and the operations of two imprints, including scheduling, reporting, event planning, travel arrangements, and author relations.

Highlights
  • Manage book production processes such as transmittals, routing, and scheduling.
  • Assist with cover copy creation and populate tip and launch sheets.
  • Coordinate author relations and organize author and imprint events.
  • Order books and facilitate communication between authors and the editorial team.
  • Use basic Word and Excel skills for reporting and document management.
  • Strong communication, organizational, and time management skills required.
  • Strong writing skills necessary for job responsibilities.
  • Office experience is helpful but not required.
  • Annual salary is $50,000.
  • Support the operations of two imprints under Macmillan Publishers, part of the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group.

Editorial Assistant, Wednesday and Saturday Books Full Description

Editorial Assistant, Wednesday and Saturday Books

Job Category: Editorial
Requisition Number: EDITO003127
Full-Time
120 Broadway
New York, NY 10271, USA

Job Details

Description
Editorial assistant and assistant to the editorial director of Wednesday Books and Saturday Books. The applicant will assist in all aspects of the publication of a busy list of books, in addition to assisting in the basic operations required to run two imprints, including scheduling meetings, running reports, organizing imprint events, arranging travel itineraries and keeping track of schedules.

What you'll do:
  • All aspects of moving a book through the production process, including transmittals, routing, and keeping track of a book’s schedule
  • Cover copy
  • Populating tip and launch sheets
  • Author relations
  • Ordering books
  • Author and imprint events

What you'll bring:
  • Strong communication skills, including strong author relations skills
  • Strong organizational skills
  • Time management skills; work should be done in a timely manner; responses to emails should be done in a timely manner.
  • Basic knowledge of Word and Excel
  • Strong writing skills

Ideal Experience:
  • Office experience not required, but helpful.

This role will have an annual salary of $50,000.

Macmillan Publishers is the U.S. trade company that is part of the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group, a large family-owned group of media companies headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany. Holtzbrinck Publishing Group's publishing companies include prominent imprints around the world that publish a broad range of award-winning books for children and adults in all categories and formats.

U.S. publishers include Celadon Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Flatiron Books, Henry Holt & Company, Macmillan Audio, Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group, The St. Martin's Publishing Group, and Tor Publishing Group. In the UK, Australia, India, and South Africa, companies in the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group publish under the Pan Macmillan name. The German publishing company, Holtzbrinck Deutsche Buchverlage, includes among its imprints S. Fischer, Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Rowohlt, and Droemer Knaur.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are actively seeking job applicants who reflect a broad representation of differences, including race, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, physical ability, neurodiversity, age, family status, economic background and status, geographical background and status, and perspective. We believe that the best companies reflect the incredible diversity in viewpoints, backgrounds, and identities of the world in their staffs, and are committed to inclusive hiring across departments and levels. The successful candidate for this position will be an employee of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC.

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