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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.

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.

Sell and close custom publishing adoptions and original authored works to higher education institutions across a multi-state territory. Conduct on-campus and virtual sales calls, develop custom solutions and proposals, manage RFIs/RFPs, maintain CRM and sales forecasts, coordinate internal handoffs, analyze market intelligence, and meet annual sales targets while traveling frequently within the region.

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.