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About the Role
Running Press, an imprint of Hachette Book Group, is seeking an Editor to acquire and edit approximately 15 books and related products annually. The role involves expanding the emerging list of genre fiction with key publishing partners.
Responsibilities
- Brainstorm and develop projects based on entertainment properties, lifestyle practices, and popular formats, creating books and products that connect with fan communities and hit marketplace trends.
- Cultivate strong relationships with authors, licensors, literary agents, subject experts, and creative communities to acquire titles and identify partnership opportunities.
- Evaluate and develop book proposals and pitches, making commercial, creative, and imprint-focused cases for acquisition.
- Expand Running Press’s one-color narrative publishing and grow the fiction line by acquiring and developing titles that meet genre fiction trends.
- Craft concepts with licensors and guide projects through all stages of approvals.
- Edit and develop manuscripts, and manage projects through all stages of the publishing process.
- Collaborate closely with in-house design, production, and production editorial departments, as well as external freelancers, authors, and publishing partners.
- Draft descriptive copy for sales and marketing departments and write consumer-facing descriptive copy.
- Act as project editor on titles acquired by the Editorial Director.
Requirements
- Possess excellent verbal and written communications skills, including comfort speaking publicly in varied in-house team meetings and sales-facing presentations.
- Have 5+ years’ editorial experience in book, licensing, magazine, or digital publishing.
- Experience in genre fiction and/or illustrated books or other content-rich media spaces is considered a plus.
- Have a well-developed understanding of the acquisition and book publishing process.
- Be highly organized, detail-oriented, and capable of managing multiple projects simultaneously.
- Embrace all aspects of the creative process, including brainstorming, editorial development, and determining a design/physical package.
- Demonstrate sensitivity and professionalism when interacting with authors, literary agents, licensors, and colleagues.
- Be comfortable coordinating team projects that will include designers, authors, and freelancers.
- Be proficient in Word, Outlook, Teams, PowerPoint, and Excel or other like tools.
- Have a strong understanding of line editing.
- Familiarity with the Chicago Manual of Style or other style guides.
Skills
- Editorial experience
- Genre fiction
- Illustrated books
- Content-rich media
- Acquisition process
- Book publishing process
- Project management
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Outlook
- Microsoft Teams
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Microsoft Excel
- Line editing
- Chicago Manual of Style
Location
- Philadelphia (Preferred)
- New York City
Work Type
- Hybrid (three days per week in the office)
Experience Level
- 5+ years
Salary/Compensations
- $60,000-$70,000
Benefits
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- Basic and supplemental life insurance
- Short-term and long-term disability
- Accidental death and dismemberment
- Critical illness insurance
- Hospital indemnity insurance
- Long-term care insurance
- 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
- Group discounts on legal services
About the Company
- Running Press is a leading publisher of books, decks and book-plus, and Mini Kits in categories including Pop Culture, Entertainment, Licensed Publishing, Creative Self-Help, Lifestyle, Food & Drink, Humor, and Gift.
- 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.
- HBG is guided by four core pillars: Understanding Consumers, Changing the Story, Owner Mentality, and Growth Mindset.
- HBG believes that including and representing diverse voices in all aspects of our business is fundamental.
- 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.