The Design Director will lead the creative direction of interior book designs, with a focus on four-color books, including cookbooks, lifestyle books, and other highly-designed books. This role will support the Flatiron and Celadon imprints, with additional support for other imprints as needed. This role will work collaboratively across groups; manage and delegate effectively; motivate staff. The Design Director must organize and create suitable designs for given material that meets the needs of authors, production managers and editors. This position requires organizational skills, time management, creative and original thinking. Problem solving with complex material, and good communication skills.
What you'll do:
- Collaborate with authors and editors to understand the vision and theme of each book
- Liaise with editorial on all aspects of the book interior
- Reviewing manuscripts for page design
- Creating and routing interior layouts
- Managing direct reports and supervise freelancers
What you'll bring:
- Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite
- Solid understanding of typography, layout
- Detail oriented, with a passion for interior book design
- Knowledge of prepress and print production
- Experience supervising and mentoring other design team members
- Strong ability to work congenially with other teams to create interior designs within budget
- Extensive experience working on four-color books, and directing the creative process from conception to execution
- 10 years of experience working in trade publishing
This role will have an annual salary of $115,000 - $120,000.
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.
