Jobs at Simon & Schuster, LLC

Develop and execute social media strategy and daily content across TikTok, YouTube, Meta, and emerging platforms. Create social-first video, photography, graphics, and written content; manage editorial calendars and publishing workflows; analyze performance and audience trends; support social commerce, affiliate marketing, and creator partnerships; and collaborate with marketing, publicity, authors, and internal teams to grow book discovery and audience engagement.

Designs up to 30 children's book titles annually, including covers and interiors, from concept through final production. Develops age-appropriate creative concepts, presents design directions, collaborates with editors and licensors, commissions and art-directs illustrators, prepares production-ready files, and supports proofing and color correction. The role also manages multiple deadlines, incorporates stakeholder feedback, and provides administrative support to the design team.

Leads nonfiction acquisitions and editorial development for Atria Books, identifying authors and concepts, evaluating proposals, negotiating deals, guiding manuscripts through publication, and shaping commercial publishing strategies. Collaborates with marketing, publicity, sales, design, production, and rights teams; monitors market trends and sales performance; develops author relationships; mentors editorial colleagues; and balances creative vision with financial and scheduling considerations.

Build modern .NET worker services, APIs, T-SQL solutions, and web interfaces replacing legacy COBOL batch systems. Review and validate AI-generated code, implement logging and restartability patterns, support parallel validation and production cutovers, troubleshoot system differences, and improve engineering standards. The role requires production ownership, strong SQL and full-stack development skills, and collaboration with QA and legacy-system specialists.

Supports the Simon Spotlight editorial team with scheduling, file organization, title data entry, manuscript and proof review, copywriting, project tracking, licensing coordination, communications, meeting preparation, market research, and cross-functional publishing support.

Paid eight-week publishing internship for undergraduate and graduate students. Interns support research, writing, organization, administrative tasks, meetings, and department projects while learning publishing operations through mentorship. Opportunities span editorial, marketing, publicity, sales, production, and corporate marketing. The program requires 16 hours weekly across two full days and is available in New York City and Stoughton, Massachusetts.

Partners with leaders and employees on people strategies, organizational effectiveness, talent development, succession planning, employee engagement, culture, employee relations, performance management, and organizational change. Coaches managers, uses workforce insights to improve retention and performance, supports sensitive people matters, and collaborates across HR functions to strengthen the employee experience and people practices.

Owns automated QA for a multi-year systems modernization program, including SQL-based data reconciliation, regression testing, integration and performance validation, discrepancy root-cause analysis, UAT coordination, and production cutover evidence. The role validates parallel legacy and replacement outputs across large datasets, improves reusable testing frameworks, and applies AI tools critically for test generation, analysis, and documentation.

Leads a portfolio of data- and AI-enabled software products from discovery through launch, adoption, and value realization. Defines product outcomes, roadmaps, requirements, and success measures; coordinates cross-functional delivery; manages dependencies, risks, budgets, vendors, testing, releases, and executive reporting. Drives workflow redesign, user adoption, responsible AI controls, and continuous improvement while aligning technical initiatives with measurable business outcomes.

Manages corporate social media programming across multiple platforms, including content planning, publishing, community engagement, audience growth, performance reporting, and trend monitoring. Creates graphics, photography, video, and written content while supporting book campaigns, author events, partnerships, and internal social media education. Collaborates with marketing, design, and video teams to promote books and strengthen reader communities.

Develop and execute strategies to grow Scribner’s backlist across print, digital, audio, retail, academic, and direct-to-consumer channels. Identify repackaging and publishing opportunities, create campaigns tied to cultural and commercial moments, analyze sales and market data, and lead cross-functional collaboration with editorial, sales, marketing, publicity, design, production, rights, audio, and digital teams.

Oversee production editorial schedules and workflows for 45–60 children’s publishing titles annually. Copyedit and proofread materials for accuracy and consistency, assign and supervise freelance editors, and manage multiple titles and competing deadlines to ensure timely, high-quality publication.

Manage publishing sales accounts across Brodart, B&N College, Follett Adult, Christian-market, and homeschool channels. Build buyer relationships, solicit frontlist and backlist orders, analyze sales and market data, plan promotions, manage co-op programs, support events, resolve order and shipment issues, coordinate commission representatives, and share market insights with sales and publishing teams.