Jobs at Macmillan

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.

Acquire and publish 8–10 children’s books annually, primarily picture books and middle grade titles. Develop and edit manuscripts, negotiate acquisitions, manage author and agent relationships, maintain publishing schedules, prepare launch and sales materials, and collaborate across departments to build a cohesive, commercially successful list.

Provides administrative and licensing support for foreign rights sales across UK and translation markets. Responsibilities include tracking materials, managing spreadsheets and databases, coordinating with internal departments and external publishing partners, handling correspondence, preparing sales and rights guides, supporting international book fairs, and distributing production materials. The role requires strong organization, communication, writing, multitasking, computer skills, initiative, and interest in subsidiary rights.

Leads creative marketing campaigns for 8–10 fiction and nonfiction titles annually, managing strategy, budgets, digital advertising, author and partner relationships, influencer and email programs, catalogs, bookseller outreach, reporting, and seasonal initiatives. Presents plans to internal and external stakeholders, analyzes campaign performance, identifies sales opportunities, manages an intern, and supports broader imprint marketing strategy and process improvement.

Supports planning, launching, monitoring, and optimizing programmatic advertising campaigns across Amazon Advertising, Google Ads, StackAdapt, and other platforms. Manages audiences, testing, pacing, ROAS, KPIs, reporting, and campaign insights. Collaborates with creative teams on ad assets and contributes ideas for improved targeting, bidding, formats, and performance. The role requires strong analytical, organizational, communication, and experimentation skills in a publishing marketing environment.

Supports executive editors across nonfiction and fiction publishing projects. Responsibilities include communicating with authors and agents, reviewing submissions, researching comparative titles, preparing acquisition materials, drafting catalog and jacket copy, coordinating manuscripts and production deadlines, handling administrative tasks, and organizing presentations. The role requires strong writing, communication, organization, prioritization, and attention to detail, along with proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, and Google Workspace.

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.

Supports day-to-day People Operations, including onboarding, offboarding, employee record maintenance, HRIS updates, employment verification, and staff inquiries. Coordinates with Talent Acquisition, HR, Benefits, Payroll, IT, and Shared Services to process employee lifecycle transactions accurately. Maintains confidential personnel files, supports contractor administration and People programs, and contributes to process documentation and workflow improvements.

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 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.

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.

Provides first-level technical support through phone, email, chat, ticketing, and remote assistance. Troubleshoots Windows, Microsoft 365, authentication, endpoint, VPN, account, and access issues; manages incidents and service requests against SLAs; documents resolutions; escalates complex problems; administers Active Directory; supports onboarding, hardware setup, software installation, and provisioning; and collaborates with infrastructure, application, networking, and security teams.

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.

Drive adoption of Macmillan Learning products across a multi-state higher education territory by developing sales strategies, presenting to decision-makers, supporting post-sale implementations (LMS integration, course customization), training VIP adopters, mentoring reps, and contributing market feedback to product teams. Frequent travel for campus visits, conferences, and events is required.

The Senior Editor will acquire and edit fantasy and science fiction titles, collaborate in the publishing process, and manage author relations. Responsibilities include pitch creation, presentation to sales teams, and nurturing industry relationships.

Coordinates custom publishing projects from initiation through production, managing schedules, editorial workflows, reviews, approvals, team handoffs, author and customer communications, project records, and workflow improvements. Builds lasting customer relationships, identifies future publishing opportunities, and evaluates AI and automation applications. Requires strong organization, communication, attention to detail, customer focus, and proficiency with Google Workspace.

Provides administrative support to a high school editorial team, including processing errata, invoices, author and vendor payments, manuscripts, contracts, spreadsheets, surveys, and project-management tickets. Coordinates with internal departments and external collaborators, maintains contractor records, routes documents through DocuSign, and handles day-to-day administrative needs. This is a remote, part-time contract role for six months, with possible extension.

Build and manage relationships with university faculty, bookstore managers, and other higher-education customers across British Columbia. Conduct on-campus sales calls, demonstrate course materials and software, manage opportunities and pipeline in a CRM, respond to customer needs, plan territory travel, and submit sales and market activity reports. The role requires regular regional travel, including overnight trips, and collaboration with marketing, editorial, and customer success teams.