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About the Role
Workman Publishing’s children’s department is seeking a creative and collaborative Senior Designer to develop innovative trade books for children across a wide range of formats. This role will focus on creating standout designs for both original IP and brand extensions of beloved backlist titles, partnering closely with editors, art directors, illustrators, and production teams.
Responsibilities
- Design innovative, eye-catching covers
- Ideate and develop full interior layouts for new projects in any format
- Develop brands and logo designs
- Partner with the design staff, editors, and publisher to manage multiple book projects from start to finish
- Researches and oversees freelance illustrators and designers
- Prepare cover mechanicals, from initial layout to final production
- Prepare galley covers, following a similar process
- Work with colleagues in the marketing department to create original promotional materials, including social media assets
- Open to mentoring junior staff
Requirements
- At least 5-7 years of design experience, primarily focused in book publishing
- A strong portfolio demonstrating an eye for design, typography, and color, as well as sharp conceptual thinking and visual storytelling
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to collaborate on creative projects, present work, and discuss feedback in group settings
- Able to take direction from written or spoken ideas and convert them seamlessly into high-design book interior layouts
- Adept at problem-solving when a book needs some extra TLC
- Experience in developing and designing series branding
- Creativity, originality, willingness to experiment, learn, grow and share knowledge with the design and editorial teams
- Understanding of the commercial market and design trends, branded series and commercial book covers
- Experience with prepress production, preparing files for 4-color printing using a PDF workflow
- Strong knowledge of typography including paragraph, character, object, and GREP styles; parent pages highly desired
- Professional experience designing and laying out long-form book interiors is required
- Knowledge of book structural elements and proofreading marks
- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
- Ability to work quickly and independently to meet deadlines
Skills
- InDesign
- Photoshop
- Illustrator
- Acrobat
Location
- New York City
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior
Salary/Compensations
- $65,000 - $75,000
Benefits
- medical
- dental
- vision
- basic and supplemental life
- short-term and long-term disability
- accidental death and dismemberment
- critical illness
- hospital indemnity
- long-term care
- health and dependent care FSA
- commuter benefit plan
- employee assistance program
- tuition reimbursement
- travel assistance
- 401(k)
- discretionary bonus program
- PTO (15 vacation days, 3 personal days, 10 holidays and generous sick leave)
- group discounts on auto and home insurance and legal services
About the Company
- Hachette Book Group (HBG) is a leading book publisher based in New York and a division of Hachette Livre, the third-largest publisher in the world. The mission of Hachette Book Group is to make it easy for everyone to discover new worlds of ideas, learning, entertainment, and opportunity. At HBG, we are guided by four core pillars: Understanding Consumers, Changing the Story, Owner Mentality, and Growth Mindset.
- As a leading book publisher, we believe that including and representing diverse voices in all aspects of our business is fundamental to what we do. Our publishing programs must reflect the broad range of backgrounds, experiences, political views and ideas that shape our society and publish books for all readers.
Equal Opportunity
- Hachette Book Group provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.