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About the Role
Seeking a creative and talented Designer to join the Fiction design team in creating award-winning and dynamic Middle Grade and YA fiction titles. You will be responsible for designing 5-10+ titles per season, including book covers, solicitation materials, and interiors, concepting, artist selection, and reprint projects. Expected to deliver high-quality design work on-schedule while collaborating with editorial, production, and the creative team.
Responsibilities
- Design and produce covers, interiors, and marketing materials for 5-10+ titles each season.
- Develop visual concepts, create dynamic typography, identify and help manage artist feedback and schedules, and contribute creative solutions with initiative and exploration.
- Build and route cover and interior mechanicals, manage revisions and corrections, and package files for output.
- Maintain schedules, meet deadlines, respond promptly to project-related communications, draft contracts, code invoices, and provide support to team members on shared projects.
- Participate in status and art management meetings, representing projects and the team professionally.
- Communicate effectively with editorial, production, manufacturing, and external creative partners.
- Write clear, concise, and professional correspondences.
- Work with editors, production partners, and external vendors to develop and implement solutions, elicit and incorporate feedback, and support the creative vision.
- Prepare print-ready files and ensure all materials meet production specifications.
- Verify color usage, image resolution, template compliance, and technical requirements.
- Manage multiple projects while maintaining organized files, accurate version control and a consistently high standard of quality.
Requirements
- BFA in Design and/or illustration
- Publishing internships in Design
- 1-2 years publishing experience
- Interest and ability in typography
- Awareness of book publishing, art trends, love of reading, cover design
Skills
- Strong design, typography, and layout skills
- Proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud
- Excellent computer skills in relevant art/design software
- Excellent organizational and time-management abilities
- Strong communication and collaboration skills
- Highly creative
- Detail oriented
- Interpersonal skills
- Interest in children’s publishing and visual storytelling
Location
- New York City
- SoHo office
Work Type
- Full time
- Regular
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 1-2 years publishing experience
Education Level
- BFA in Design and/or illustration
Salary/Compensations
- 55,000.00 - 75,000.00
Benefits
- Full suite of health and wellness benefits (including a $0 deductible Medical Plan)
- Retirement Savings Plan 401(k) with options for both Roth and Traditional Contributions
- Tuition-Free programs for undergraduate and graduate degrees
- Generous Parental Leave Program
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) with opportunity for discounted stock at a 15% discount
About the Company
- For more than 100 years, Scholastic Corporation (NASDAQ: SCHL) has been meeting children where they are – at school, at home and in their communities – by creating quality content and experiences, all beginning with literacy.
- Scholastic delivers stories, characters, and learning moments that empower all kids to become lifelong readers and learners through bestselling children’s books, literacy- and knowledge-building resources for schools including classroom magazines, and award-winning, entertaining children's media.
- As the world's largest publisher and distributor of children's books through school-based book clubs and book fairs, classroom libraries, school and public libraries, retail, and online, and with a global reach into more than 135 countries, Scholastic encourages the personal and intellectual growth of all children, while nurturing a lifelong relationship with reading, themselves, and the world around them.
- Learn more at www.scholastic.com.
Equal Opportunity
- Scholastic is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
- Our policy is clear: there shall be no discrimination on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, pregnancy, national origin, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, or status as a disabled veteran or Vietnam veteran.
- Those factors shall not influence the determination of qualifications for a job or other opportunity within the company.
- Further, all personnel actions (such as compensation, tuition aid, benefits, transfers, promotions, and dismissals, company-sponsored training, social and recreational programs) shall be administered without discrimination.
- EEO is the Law Poster
- EEO Scholastic Policy Statement
- Pay Transparency Provision