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About the Role

The Associate Editor is responsible for soliciting, acquiring, and developing authors and books for the Harlequin Intrigue publishing program, ensuring a consistent supply of high-quality, marketable titles.

Responsibilities

• Acquire manuscripts that align with the publishing strategy and maintain high editorial quality.
• Collaborate with authors on editorial development, including proposal evaluation, revision guidance, and line editing.
• Oversee copy editing and manage author approval and alterations.
• Review submissions, respond to authors/agents, present projects, negotiate contracts, and monitor author payments.
• Develop new authors to meet publication standards.
• Provide editorial input on packaging design to highlight key selling features, working with Marketing and Art teams.
• Write and review back cover copy to create the most marketable package.
• Support the team and contribute to imprint strategy and growth.
• Represent the program/company at internal and external conferences.
• Maintain relationships with current agents and develop new ones.
• Manage specific initiatives, including trend-inspired IP projects, as directed.

Requirements

• An undergraduate degree.
• 3-5 years of experience in publishing, including acquisitions experience.
• Strong communication, writing, and editorial skills.
• Strong project management, planning, organizational, teamwork, and problem-solving skills.
• Creativity, decisiveness, functional/technical knowledge, computer knowledge, adaptability/flexibility, customer orientation, and a drive for results.
• Ability to manage execution, prioritize, and pay close attention to detail.
• High level of creativity/innovation and functional/technical knowledge.
• Enthusiasm for mystery, suspense, and romance is a plus.

Skills

• Communication skills
• Writing skills
• Editorial skills
• Project management skills
• Planning skills
• Organizational skills
• Teamwork skills
• Problem-solving skills
• Creativity
• Decisiveness
• Functional/technical knowledge
• Computer knowledge
• Adaptability/flexibility
• Customer orientation
• Drive for results
• Execution management
• Prioritization
• Attention to detail
• Innovation

Location

• 195 Broadway, New York, NY

Work Type

• Hybrid
• Regular Full Time

Experience Level

• 3-5 years of experience in publishing

Education Level

• Undergraduate degree

Salary/Compensations

• $65,000-$70,000

Benefits

• Comprehensive and highly competitive benefits package
• Variety of physical health benefits
• Retirement and savings benefits
• Caregiving benefits
• Emotional wellbeing benefits
• Transportation benefits
• Other benefits
• Elective benefits

About the Company

• Harlequin is a leading publisher of commercial fiction and narrative nonfiction, publishing over 100 titles monthly with global reach.
• The company encompasses recognizable imprints across various genres and is home to award-winning authors.
• Harlequin is a division of HarperCollins Publishers, the second-largest consumer book publisher globally.
• Harlequin titles are published in 17 countries and 16 languages through HarperCollins’s global publishing program.
• HarperCollins Publishers is a company of people passionate about books.

Equal Opportunity

• We celebrate and support the differences that make each of us unique, striving to create a welcoming workplace that ensures everyone has a voice and are able to do their best work.
• We welcome all applicants, including those who identify with groups that are traditionally underrepresented in the publishing industry including, but not limited to, Black, Indigenous, and people of colour, and members of the LGBTQIA2S+ community, and persons with disabilities.
• HarperCollins Publishers is an equal opportunity employer.
• HarperCollins Publishers is committed to providing reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities, in our job application and/or interview process.