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.

Conduct workplace investigations, maintain multi-jurisdictional employment policies, advise on performance management, accommodations, leave, and employee relations matters, and draft employment and severance agreements. Support agency inquiries, subpoenas, litigation holds, document collection, contractor classification reviews, regulatory research, and pre-litigation risk mitigation. The role partners closely with Employment Counsel and Human Resources across a distributed workforce.

Leads a team of Royalty Managers and oversees end-to-end royalty statement preparation, analysis, review, issuance, contract processing, payment approvals, tax compliance, and issue resolution. Ensures accuracy, contractual compliance, timely payments, and effective stakeholder communication. Drives process improvements, manages escalations, supports workflow and resource planning, and collaborates with internal departments and external authors and agents.

Leads the strategic and operational infrastructure supporting Sales and Customer Success, including reporting, forecasting, CRM governance, territory planning, compensation input, vendor management, and process improvement. Manages the Revenue Operations team and partners cross-functionally on systems, automation, and AI initiatives. Owns the function’s operating model, technology strategy, data quality, KPI framework, and long-term evolution.

Supports Royalty Managers with preparing, reviewing, analyzing, and issuing royalty statements. Responsibilities include validating royalty terms, reviewing banking and tax forms, processing payee changes, researching sales data, resolving exceptions, preparing manual statements, responding to royalty inquiries, and assisting with payment registers and requests. The role requires strong organization, communication, Excel, database, and analytical skills, with 1–2 years of relevant experience preferred.

Administers Xflow, Concur, Tipalti, and SAP-connected P2P systems. Responsibilities include user provisioning, access controls, system monitoring, troubleshooting, integrations, compliance audits, configuration, UAT, documentation, master-data standardization, and process improvement. Partners with Accounts Payable, Procurement, IT, and vendors to resolve issues and implement reliable, secure technology solutions.

Plans and oversees multimedia editorial projects for high school educational products, coordinating authors, vendors, freelancers, and internal teams. Manages schedules, budgets, workflows, content quality, and stakeholder communications. Evaluates user needs and platform functionality, supports marketing and sales materials, and improves editorial processes through AI and automation. The role also recruits and manages external contributors, assesses project status, and promotes products through conferences and presentations.

Develops educator engagement strategies for new and early-lifecycle high school products. Builds relationships with educators and districts, gathers market insights, identifies launch barriers, supports paid pilots and early adopters, validates marketing messaging, and provides recommendations to Product, Sales, Marketing, and leadership. Tracks market-readiness indicators and helps create scalable educator engagement frameworks.

Design marketing campaigns and brand assets across digital, social, video, print, merchandise, and packaging channels. Maintain brand guidelines, photograph products, create motion graphics and video overlays, manage digital assets, prepare print-ready files, and update promotional decks and databases. Collaborate with editorial, marketing, art, and external partners to develop visual concepts and execute product and promotional materials.

Owns organizational benefits strategy, plan design, vendor relationships, compliance, executive reporting, and team oversight. Manages benefits staff, escalated issues, vendor selection and negotiations, retirement plan governance, automation initiatives, and open enrollment or wellness programs. Advises leadership on regulatory risk, develops repeatable processes, and ensures accurate, responsive benefits administration.

Coordinate production workflows for self-paced online learning courses across content, rights, marketing, platform teams, vendors, and partners. Manage Jira boards, timelines, task tracking, content handoffs, meetings, documentation, vendor onboarding, and status reporting. Identify workflow blockers, recommend process improvements, and support automation initiatives to maintain operational continuity throughout the pilot program.

Drive the full engagement cycle for an AI-powered EdTech simulation platform, including prospect research, outbound outreach, consultative discovery, product demonstrations, instructor onboarding, pilot activation, adoption monitoring, feedback synthesis, and Salesforce reporting. The contractor will build higher education pilot opportunities, support classroom implementation, identify adoption barriers, document market insights, and develop continuation and advocacy plans.

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.

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.

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.