Macmillan Learning
Senior Editor, Flatiron
🇺🇸 New York, NY
🕑 Full-Time
💰 $80K - $85K
💻 Other
🗓️ September 23rd, 2025
Edtech.com's Summary
Macmillan Learning is hiring a Senior Editor, Flatiron. The role involves commissioning, acquiring, editing, and positioning 8-10 nonfiction titles annually, collaborating across departments to ensure successful publication.
Highlights
- Commission and acquire nonfiction titles with strong sales and critical potential
- Edit and develop manuscripts focusing on strong sales potential
- Manage manuscript production workflow and prepare marketing materials
- Maintain relationships with literary agents and assess incoming projects
- Collaborate with legal, art, marketing, publicity, and sales departments
- Requires 5+ years of relevant editorial experience
- Fluency in contemporary book publishing and knowledge of modern media landscape
- Established network of literary agents
- Experience with practical nonfiction and 4-color publishing is a plus
- Annual salary range of $80,000 to $85,000
Senior Editor, Flatiron Full Description
Senior Editor, Flatiron
Job Category: Editorial
Requisition Number: SENIO003171
Full-Time
120 Broadway
New York, NY 10271, USA
Job Details
Description
Flatiron Books is looking for a senior editor of nonfiction, responsible for approximately 8-10 titles annually spanning a variety of practical and narrative categories. Duties will include identifying, acquiring, editing, and positioning a variety of books and working with the imprint’s departments to publish them successfully.
Candidates should have 5+ years of relevant experience and knowledge of the modern media landscape; established relationships with literary agents; fluency with contemporary book publishing; an eye for books that meet the needs of the moment, from a variety of viewpoints; and a genuine interest in working collaboratively and supporting the success of the team as a whole.
What you'll do:
- Commission and acquire a range of nonfiction titles with strong critical, sales, and backlist potential and maintain strong agent network
- Edit and develop manuscripts with an eye for strong sales potential
- Prepare manuscripts for production and manage the production workflow process
- Read and assess incoming projects as delegated by the Editor in Chief; attend editorial meetings and author meetings
- Prepare materials for marketing and publicity, jackets, catalogs, launch meetings, sales conference, and other key opportunities
- Liaise with departments and collaborate with key stakeholders from legal, art, marketing, publicity, and sales, including attending meetings
What you'll bring:
- 5+ years of relevant experience
- Established relationships with literary agents
- Fluency with contemporary book publishing
- An eye for books that meet the needs of the moment
- Collaborative approach to teamwork
- Experience editing practical nonfiction is a plus
- Experience with 4-color publishing is a plus
This role will have an annual salary of $80k-$85k.
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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