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About the Role

Canelo is seeking an organized, proactive, and motivated editor to join their publishing team. This role will focus on the Canelo and Canelo Crime lists, working closely with authors, designers, and production teams to create bestsellers. The editor will manage multiple projects, meet deadlines, and ensure smooth project execution.

Responsibilities

• Brief freelancers on editorial and design projects
• Check structural edits, copyedits, and proofreads
• Write cover and sales copy for each title
• Maintain strong relationships with key external stakeholders, such as authors and agents, to facilitate smooth project execution
• Nurture existing relationships within DK to ensure editions are sent to press on time and deadlines for material are met
• Update Biblio and other internal systems to ensure accurate metadata is maintained

Requirements

• Excellent attention to detail
• Ability to work under pressure
• Confident in managing multiple projects simultaneously
• Ability to meet strict deadlines
• Resourceful and solution-focused
• Strong communicator with great interpersonal skills
• Must be confident in working with minimal instruction
• Experience of working on crime and thriller titles is desirable but not essential
• Solid grasp of how to engage crime and thriller readerships
• Experience of using Biblio is desirable
• Familiarity with Google Workplace is desirable
• Clear understanding of each book’s vision and the commercial opportunity it presents
• Must be within a reasonable commuting distance of London

Skills

• Editorial
• Copyediting
• Proofreading
• Sales copy writing
• Stakeholder management
• Metadata maintenance
• Project management
• Interpersonal skills
• Communication

Location

• Pimlico, London

Work Type

• Hybrid
• Remote working from abroad (subject to criteria)

Experience Level

• Assistant Editor looking for the next step
• Proven Editor with desk editing experience

Salary/Compensations

• £32.5k - £35k (plus bonus and benefits) depending on experience

Benefits

• 25 days paid holiday entitlement in year one, plus bank holidays
• Generous pension scheme
• Volunteering policy and charity matching
• Employee assistance programme
• 70% discount on company books
• Cycle to work scheme
• Discounted gym membership
• Shopping discounts
• Flex Fridays (1pm Finish*)
• Up to 30 days remote working from abroad*
• A tree is planted for every new employee

About the Company

• Canelo is an exciting fiction publisher.
• DK is committed to building a diverse workforce that reflects the varied communities that read our books across the world.
• DK is proud to announce that we have adopted The Halo Code.
• DK is a member of the disability confident scheme.
• DK supports flexible working and has introduced a new ‘smart-working’ policy with a hybrid approach of working weekly from home and in DK’s office.

Equal Opportunity

• We encourage applications from all individuals, regardless of age, religion, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexuality or social background.
• We guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy/ies.