Henry Holt & Company is looking for a senior/executive editor to acquire and edit business and practical nonfiction books. Key responsibilities for this role are to bring in 6-9 titles per year, work closely with our publicity and marketing departments to shepherd the titles to publication, and maintain relationships with authors and agents across the industry.
What you'll do:
- Build relationships with literary agents and promising authors of books ranging from personal finance to leadership to productivity to big ideas
- Appraise book projects and promising submissions and directly negotiate for their acquisition
- Edit style, structure, content, and line of acquired nonfiction titles toward delivering books in their fullest artistic and saleable form
- Create sharp, persuasive pitches for the sales force designed to sell-in their titles at chain and independent retailers
- Serve as in-house advocate for individual titles
What you'll bring:
- Basic knowledge of the modern media landscape and especially the business media
- Contacts with agents who specialize in business books
- Contacts with authors and influencers in the business world, and an appetite for pursuing projects outside of agent submissions
- At least 5-7 years in media of any kind
This role will have an annual salary of $80,000 - $150,000
Macmillan Publishers is the U.S. trade company that is part of the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group, a large family-owned group of media companies headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany. Holtzbrinck Publishing Group's publishing companies include prominent imprints around the world that publish a broad range of award-winning books for children and adults in all categories and formats.
U.S. publishers include Celadon Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Flatiron Books, Henry Holt & Company, Macmillan Audio, Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group, The St. Martin's Publishing Group, and Tor Publishing Group. In the UK, Australia, India, and South Africa, companies in the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group publish under the Pan Macmillan name. The German publishing company, Holtzbrinck Deutsche Buchverlage, includes among its imprints S. Fischer, Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Rowohlt, and Droemer Knaur.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are actively seeking job applicants who reflect a broad representation of differences, including race, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, physical ability, neurodiversity, age, family status, economic background and status, geographical background and status, and perspective. We believe that the best companies reflect the incredible diversity in viewpoints, backgrounds, and identities of the world in their staffs, and are committed to inclusive hiring across departments and levels. The successful candidate for this position will be an employee of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC.
