Jobs at Macmillan

Acquire and publish primarily fiction titles, negotiate acquisition terms, edit manuscripts, develop author careers, and build a cohesive publishing list. The Senior Editor collaborates with agents, authors, and internal departments to position books, prepare launch materials, maintain schedules, mentor colleagues, and supervise one employee. The role requires strong editorial judgment, industry relationships, fiction-market expertise, contract familiarity, and at least eight years of book publishing experience.

Build and manage relationships with educators, administrators, and technical contacts; monitor account health using Power BI, Amplitude, and Salesforce; lead customer training; troubleshoot access issues; create educational resources; support renewals and digital upsells; and collaborate cross-functionally to drive product adoption and customer success.

Leads day-to-day community management and growth across branded social channels, developing platform-specific voices, engagement plans, and cross-promotional campaigns. Collaborates with marketing and communications teams to amplify books, authors, seasonal initiatives, and social commerce. Uses social listening and analytics tools to monitor sentiment, behavior, engagement, and growth, translating insights into recommendations. Creates select social content, manages content calendars, and stays current on evolving platforms, technologies, and community trends.

Creates original digital math questions, hints, solutions, and feedback that assess conceptual understanding and address student misconceptions. Reviews content for mathematical, grammatical, and pedagogical accuracy, enters materials into content software, and provides corrective feedback to other contractors. Requires a mathematics master's or doctoral degree and recent higher-education math teaching or tutoring experience, including courses such as algebra, calculus, precalculus, or linear algebra.

Lead and develop a team of Sales Specialists to drive growth in higher education disciplines. Provide coaching, field support, cross-functional coordination with Marketing and Editorial, sales strategy execution, forecasting, and market feedback. Travel frequently to support sales meetings, conferences, and training; manage hiring, training, and performance of direct reports.

Lead administration and optimization of the Snowflake data warehouse. Design and enforce data management and security policies, tune performance and costs, lead migrations and ETL initiatives, manage Snowflake roles/SSO, mentor DBAs, and maintain architecture documentation while collaborating with data engineers and analysts.

Manages production editorial processes for adult fiction and nonfiction books from manuscript through bound book, including paperback conversions. Responsibilities include electronic styling, copyediting, proofreading, indexing, freelancer management, page-proof revisions, jacket and ancillary copy review, quality control, scheduling coordination, workflow tracking, and compliance with editorial, legal, and departmental procedures.

Lead and coach a team of Sales Specialists to drive higher-education product sales. Partner with field sales, Marketing, and Editorial to develop strategy, execute priority sales plans, forecast pipeline, support customer presentations, and represent the team at regional and national events. Responsible for hiring, training, cross-functional collaboration, market feedback, and driving growth against assigned disciplines. Frequent travel and people management required.

Author and edit physics lab procedures, pre-lab materials, questions, hints, and solutions for the iOLab platform. Ensure scientific accuracy, clarity, and pedagogical effectiveness; provide feedback to collaborators; and enter/manage content in the software platform. Work remotely, 10–15 hours weekly for a 3–4 month contract.