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About the Role

This role will play a key part in creating the list within the colour publishing team, working closely with the editorial and production teams to design quality commercial picture books. The position focuses on creating, shaping, championing, and publishing books that delight young readers, offering a chance to work on titles within an award-winning team.

Responsibilities

• Create, shape, champion and publish books that delight and captivate young readers.
• Focus on creating high quality, industry-leading Picture Books.
• Develop, create and manage titles for the list working in close collaboration with internal stakeholders.
• Understand pre-press working and the administrative aspects of bookmaking.
• Liaise with rights, production, sales and marketing.
• Produce quality sales material as required.
• Manage a number of books on budget and on schedule within a fast-paced environment.
• Pitch in across all areas of a small team.

Requirements

• Must have a legal right to work in the UK.
• Must be happy to pitch in across all areas.
• Must have strong communication, project, and time-management skills.
• Must be calm under pressure and thrive on meeting deadlines.

Skills

• Picture book, novelty and preschool design
• Early years publishing
• Inventive and commercially minded
• Driven and committed
• Excellent design skills
• Terrific commercial eye
• Technical design ability
• Fluent in InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator
• Keen eye for innovative colour work
• Experience in supplying print ready files to production
• Knowledge of print systems and settings

Location

• UK

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• Experienced

Salary/Compensations

• Competitive with benefits

About the Company

• Simon & Schuster, a global leader in general interest publishing, is dedicated to providing the best in fiction and non-fiction for readers of all ages, and in all printed, digital and audio formats.
• Its distinguished roster of authors includes many of the world’s most popular and widely recognized writers, and winners of the most prestigious literary honors and awards.
• It is home to numerous well-known imprints and divisions such as Simon & Schuster, Scribner, Atria Books, Gallery Books, Adams Media, Avid Reader Press, Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing and Simon & Schuster Audio and international companies in Australia, Canada, India, and the United Kingdom, and proudly brings the works of its authors to readers in more than 200 countries and territories.
• For more information visit our website at www.simonandschuster.com.

Equal Opportunity

• Simon & Schuster UK is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.
• We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, colour, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, creed, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship status, marital status, disability, gender identity and gender expression.
• At Simon & Schuster UK, the spirit of inclusion feeds into everything that we do, we believe that opportunity, access, resources and rewards should be available to and for the benefit of all.