Assistant Managing Editor
(New York, New York)

Our Viking Managing Editorial department is currently seeking an Assistant Managing Editor to enter, update and maintain titles in SAP, coordinate bound galley orders, maintain book schedules and title information and provide general support to the Managing Editor. The Assistant Managing Editor will also maintain in-depth contacts with various departments to keep books on schedule. This is a great opportunity for an extremely detail-oriented person with an interest in publishing to learn about the overall publishing process!

Please apply to join this fast-paced collegial department if you have:

• Minimum 1 year prior publishing experience
• Basic copyediting/proofreading skills
• Strong organizational skills
• Proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel & Outlook

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Associate Editor—Hudson Street Press and Plume
(New York, New York)

We have a great opportunity for an Associate Editor to work in our Hudson Street Press and Plume imprints. This position with handle high-profile, commercial non-fiction titles in categories including health, wellness, memoir, pop culture, humor, education, parenting, and psychology.

The Associate Editor:

1. For Hudson Street, edits 5-8 hardcover originals per year and acquires approximately 2-3 of these titles
2. For Plume, handles 10-12 Hudson Street reprints per year and can acquire trade paperback originals and paperback rights
3. Corresponds with agents and authors
4. Launches and presents books to sales, writes/complies sales and marketing documents including book briefs, early reading materials, catalog copy, galley verso, jacket copy, etc.
5. Edits manuscripts
6. Supervises internal production process on books

Requirements:

• Minimum 2 years prior editorial experience
• Prior editing experience (structural and line editing)
• Prior experience working with agents/authors, in house manuscripts
• Ability to read and assess manuscripts quickly and effectively for acquisition
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to multi-task and meet deadlines
• Strong organizational skills
• Proficiency with Microsoft Word

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Designer
(New York, New York)

We have an exciting opportunity for a Designer to join our Viking/Penguin Advertising and Promotions department. The Designer will create promotional materials including, but not limited to: posters, postcards, sell-sheets, risers, newsletters, sales easels, special package designs for promotional items, bound galleys, advance galley covers, publicity flyers, bookmarks, shelftalkers, marketing plans, blow-ups, bookmarks, and floor display risers. The Designer will also design print and animated web advertisements, and handle the production of printed pieces, working in tandem with the print production deptartment.

Requirements:

• Two years marketing design experience, preferably in publishing
• Proficiency in Adobe CS2 (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign)
• Working knowledge of Dreamweaver and Macromedia Flash
• Knowledge of print production and CMYK color printing
• Ability to work quickly and efficiently on multiple projects at once
• Ability to collaborate with other designers on design and execution of projects

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Diversity Associate—Human Resources
(New York, New York)

We have an exciting opportunity for someone to develop and implement corporate diversity initiatives and strengthen the company’s diversity recruiting presence with schools and organizations. This challenging role resides within our team-oriented Human Resources department.

Key responsibilities include:

1. Developing strategies to enhance minority representation within the company.
2. Developing our diversity recruitment strategy, including expanding relationships with relevant schools, student clubs and organizations, attending on-campus recruitment events and planning in-house events.
3. Planning and attending various professional networking events - occasionally on evenings and weekends.
4. Delivering training programs to student groups.
5. Chairing an in-house Diversity Committee, facilitating the internal Penguin Book Club, and organizing heritage celebrations.
6. Developing internal and external communications related to our diversity activities.
7. Overseeing Affirmative Action plans and the Applicant Tracking database for all locations.
8. Collaborating with our parent company and sister companies on diversity efforts.

Please apply if you meet the following requirements:

• Minimum 2 years of general human resources experience
• Knowledge of diversity recruiting required; established contacts within this area a plus
• Knowledge of Affirmative Action plans required; experience working with AA plans a plus
• Proven track record of excellent project management skills
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent interpersonal and relationship-building skills
• Excellent computer skills (database, Microsoft Excel & PowerPoint, any HRIS)
• 4 year college degree or equivalent work experience
• Interest in business diversity and the publishing industry
• Ability to travel up to 5% via train required

To apply, please send your cover letter, salary requirements and resume. Applications without cover letters will not be considered.

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Human Resources Assistant
(New York, New York)

Our Human Resources department is looking for a customer service-oriented person to assist the HR Director and the Executive Director of Training and Development. While balancing several administrative responsibilities, this Human Resources Assistant will be exposed to many facets of the HR field and interact with employees at all levels of the organization.

In addition to responding to employee inquiries on a daily basis, the HR Assistant will assess the needs of two supervisors and handle other tasks such as administering the company's tuition reimbursement program and assembling orientation packets.

General HR responsibilities include:

1. Sending out and logging in performance evaluation forms
2. Entering data and running reports using Microsoft Excel and Access
3. Assisting with recruitment by posting ads and conducting reference checks

Training-based responsibilities include:

1. Operating our learning management system by entering data and generating enrollment confirmations and reminders
2. Assembling training notebooks under the supervisor’s direction
3. Coordinating the company's Brown Bag speaker series, as needed

Please apply for this position if you meet the following requirements:

• 4 year college degree or equivalent work experience
• Prior office experience
• Excellent PC skills including Microsoft Excel and Access
• Excellent organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities
• Superb attention to detail
• Interest in Training and/or Human Resources a plus

To apply, please send your cover letter, salary requirements and resume.

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International Sales Assistant
(New York, New York)

Our International Sales department has an exciting opportunity for a Sales Assistant for Asia, Africa and the Middle East. The Sales Assistant will have interaction with our Accounts, Order Processing, Customer Service, Credit, Marketing and Editorial departments. The position has heavy interaction with sales reps and offers a chance to gain hands-on sales management experience.

Responsibilities:

1. Processing and tracking purchase orders for accounts
2. Providing general administrative support
3. Responding to inquiries from accounts, sales reps, freight forwarders, order processing, customer service, returns and credit
4. Gathering, packing, mailing and tracking materials for account promotions, events, and sales trips

Requirements:

• 4 year college degree or equivalent experience
• At least 1 year prior office experience
• Ability to prioritize multiple administrative tasks in a fast paced environment and meet required deadlines
• Comfortable working with numbers
• Knowledge of Microsoft Word and Excel, and experience using SAP a plus
• Interest in International Sales and Publishing a plus

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Junior Designer
(New York, New York)

Do you love the counter displays near the cash register in bookstores? Wonder how an ad on a blog or in a newspaper is made? Help create the marketing ideas behind these campaigns and oversee the design process. Become a Junior Designer for our Young Readers books!

The Junior Designer:

1. Designs promotional projects including, but not limited to: catalogs, print and online advertising, point of sale items, conference materials, and booth signage
2. Fields interdepartmental requests
3. Maintains digital archives
4. Finishes and follows-up on design projects already in progress
5. Performs basic administrative tasks

Requirements:

• One year marketing design work, preferably in publishing; children’s publishing a plus
• Proficiency in Adobe CS2 (Illustrator, Photoshop, In Design)
• Web design and animation a plus
• Ability to work on and keep track of multiple projects at once
• Previous office experience preferred

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Print Shop Supervisor
(New York, New York)

Penguin Group (USA) is currently seeking a full time Print Shop Supervisor who is customer service oriented, career-minded, and able to work in a fast-paced environment. The Supervisor is responsible for the operation of the print shop and supervising two copy operators. Other duties include reporting on copy center activity and maintaining copy equipment. Full-time employees are eligible for our comprehensive benefits program. Benefits include medical, dental, vision, life and long-term disability insurance, health and dependent care reimbursement accounts, as well as 401(k) and Employee Stock Purchase plans.

The Print Shop Supervisor:

1. Trains, manages, and supervises two copy operators
2. Oversees all facets of the Print Shop including job intake, calculating job flow, prioritizing work, overseeing output, performing quality checks, and delivering all copy work and digital copy work
3. Communicates with all in-house clients on status of jobs
4. Maintains equipment in the Print Shop (both black and white and color)
5. Maintains maintenance and calibration logs for copy equipment at both 375 and 345 Hudson Street; follow-ups with technicians on status of all equipment
6. Works with Offices Services Manager to ensure quality output for all convenience and network copiers/printers
7. Compiles weekly status reports on copy center activity
8. Completes other projects as needed

Please apply if you meet the following requirements:

• 3+ years of supervisory experience, particularly in a Print Shop environment
• Excellent skills with digital black and white and color copiers/printers
• Ability to stand for long periods of time
• Ability to lift up to 30 lbs, push up to 210 lbs using a handcart, and pull up to 210 lbs using a handcart
• Ability to communicate well with internal clients and external vendors
• Highly organized, ability to multi-task, and prioritize
• Proficient with Outlook; familiar with Word, Excel, PowerPoint; Quark and Photoshop a plus

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Sales Assistant/Coordinator
(New York, New York)

Our Paperback Sales division has an exciting opportunity for a Sales Assistant/Coordinator. The sales department is responsible for selling our imprints’ titles to booksellers across the United States. Some of their bestselling authors include Patricia Cornwell, Al Gore, Khaled Hosseini, Elizabeth Gilbert and Michael Pollan.

The Sales Assistant/Coordinator provides support to the VP of Field Sales as well as the department. This is a great opportunity to learn about account management.

Some of the daily responsibilities include:

1. Developing, maintaining, and distributing materials for sales conference, yearly trade shows, and promotions
2. Preparing sell sheets and sales kits
3. Generating, tracking, and distributing various sales reports
4. Creating and updating multiple databases
5. Liaising with operations, marketing and publicity departments
6. Creating various spreadsheets for budget comparisons (at coordinator level only)
7. Providing support for and materials to sales representatives in house and in the field - including a weekly carton mailing to the field reps
8. Providing administrative support to VP and department

Please apply if you meet the following requirements:

• 4 year college degree or equivalent work experience
• Prior office experience; bookstore experience a plus
• One year related publishing experience required at coordinator level
• Interest in learning account management
• Excellent organizational skills
• Ability to multi-task and meet deadlines
• Proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, Access, and Outlook; SAP and Business Objects a plus
• Ability to lift and unpack boxes of books weighing up to 15 lbs

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Senior Coordinator, Subsidiary Rights
(New York, New York)

Our Subsidiary Rights department is currently seeking a Senior Coordinator to support the Vice President and Director of Subsidiary Rights for four major trade imprints – Viking, Riverhead, Penguin Press and Pamela Dorman Books – of Penguin Group (USA). This is a fantastic opportunity to learn all aspects of book publishing and subsidiary rights.

The Senior Coordinator will handle rights requests from foreign publishers; submit manuscripts and publicity material to foreign agents, publishers and domestic book clubs; provide production support to foreign publishers and domestic book clubs; prepare rights guides; create deal memos and financial reports; and maintain all other administrative duties of a busy, dynamic rights department. Responsibilities also include selling translation rights to select foreign markets and worldwide on select titles.

Qualifications/requirements include:

• Minimum 1 year prior subsidiary rights experience
• Interest in a wide range of books and international markets
• Proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel & Outlook

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Senior Designer
(New York, New York)

Our Viking Penguin Art department is looking for a Senior Designer to be responsible for all phases in designing hardcover and paperback book covers for the Viking & Penguin imprints. This role offers someone a great chance to be highly creative and to work on both fiction and nonfiction titles in a fast-paced, deadline driven environment.

Specific responsibilities include:

1. Overseeing/designing 35-40 book jackets per year
2. Commissioning and directing illustrators and photographers
3. Organizing and overseeing photo shoots
4. Selecting art research
5. Working with editors, publishers, and art directors from concept stage to finished product

Qualifications/requirements include:

• BA (BFA preferred) or college-level training in graphic arts and design
• Minimum 2 years prior book cover design experience
• Knowledge of typography, printing, prepress file/art management and production
• Proficiency with Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign & Quark Xpress

Viking's titles encompass literary and commercial fiction as well as nonfiction on a variety of topics, such as history, biography, politics and memoir, with books such as Eat, Pray, Love, The Mermaid Chair, and Mayflower.

Penguin's broad list is particularly strong in fiction, both literary and commercial including Penguin Mysteries, general nonfiction including history, business, narrative nonfiction, memoir, and various kinds of practical nonfiction. Successful authors include J.M. Coetzee, Jasper Fforde, Arthur Miller, and Zadie Smith.

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Senior Editorial Position—Gotham
(New York, New York)

Gotham Books has a terrific opportunity for an editor to solicit new projects, acquire new original projects, and maintain the primary relationship with authors.

Specific responsibilities include:

1. Soliciting new high profile nonfiction projects for hardcover and trade paperback lists
2. Acquiring 10-15 new original projects every year
3. Handling reprints of hardcover books that will go into trade paperback

Qualifications/requirements include:

• Minimum 5 years prior editorial experience in trade publishing
• A proven track record in commercial nonfiction in the categories of narrative nonfiction, self-help, popular culture, politics and current affairs
• Experience negotiating with agents, authors and in-house personnel

Gotham Books launched its debut list in winter 2003. Successes to date include Jim "Uncle Griff" Griffith’s The Official eBay Bible, in two editions, The Lucky Shopping Manual by Kim France and Andrea Linett, Henry Grayson’s Mindful Loving, Jim McLean’s Golf Digest’s Ultimate Drill Book, Every Shot Must Have a Purpose by Pia Nilsson and Lynn Marriott with Ron Sirak, and James Hollis’ Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life. National bestsellers so far have been Lynne Truss’s Eats, Shoots & Leaves and Talk to the Hand, Thomas Moore’s Dark Nights of the Soul, Sarah Turnbull’s Almost French, Adrian Wojnarowski’s The Miracle of Saint Anthony, and Patti LaBelle’s Light Cuisine, by Patti LaBelle and Laura Randolph.

Subjects that Gotham’s editors specialize in include: business, current affairs, consumer reference, food writing, golf, health and fitness, history, memoirs, personal finance, popular culture, self-help, spirituality, sports, pets, travel narrative, and narrative nonfiction across a wide range of subjects.

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Senior Operations Coordinator
(New York, New York)

Work in our Operations department handling all aspects of new title release management and inventory control for our Hardcover imprints and Audio titles. Work with all publishing departments to determine first printing amounts for various titles.

Specifically, the Senior Operations Coordinator:

1. Manages the front list process for approximately 400-450 titles per year. Sets initial printings and makes revisions through pre-shipping and pre-invoicing. Includes evaluating sales projections on new title process to decide first print quantities, manages changes/revisions, and interacts with various departments including Sales, Editorial, Warehousing, Order Processing, Production and Transportation.
2. Follows up with Sales reps and Account managers to insure timely receipt of customer orders.
3. Supports Manager in inventory reviews of bestsellers/new releases.
4. Reviews various reports as necessary i.e. Backorder, Core titles, Sales and Inventory positions, Daily sales.

Please apply for this position if you meet the following requirements:

• 3 years book publishing and/or inventory management experience; knowledge of Sales and Distribution channels a plus.
• Proficiency using Microsoft Word and Excel; working knowledge of Access and SAP a plus.
• Ability to prioritize tasks and work effectively in a deadline driven environment.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to communicate with all levels of management effectively.

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Senior Publicist—Dutton and Gotham Books
(New York, New York)

Our Dutton and Gotham publicity department has a great opportunity for a Senior Publicist to handle all aspects of publicity campaigns for fiction and nonfiction titles. Responsibilities include creating publicity materials, booking media appearances for authors and managing media campaigns. The Senior Publicist will also attend weekly hot titles and department meetings.

Please apply to join us if you meet the following requirements:

• Minimum 2 years’ publicity or public relations experience required; book publishing experience a plus
• Interest in working on fiction titles
• Ability to manage multiple projects and work independently
• Extensive contacts with print, radio, tv, and online media outlets
• Ability to travel domestically up to 5% of the year via train and/or car required
• Familiarity with media databases such as Bacons and Publicity Assistant a plus

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Special Markets Assistant
(New York, New York)

We have an exciting opportunity for a Special Markets Assistant. Support the Vice-President with the launching of custom and proprietary books to customers including: Borders, Amazon, QVC, HSN, Costco, Books Are Fun, etc.

The Special Markets Assistant:

1. Corresponds with all Special Markets Custom & Proprietary clients and Penguin Group Companies worldwide to answer questions, fulfill requests, and advise on orders
2. Edits Special Markets Custom orders
3. Writes pitch letters and mails sales samples to Custom – Proprietary Customers and Penguin Group Companies
4. Handles assigned projects for department including maintaining title database and custom catalogs
5. Coordinates catalog mailing list & receipt of in-house catalogs
6. Creates, runs, and analyzes sales reports
7. Liaises with other departments including, but not limited to: Operations, Customer Service, Publicity, Editorial, Credit, Art, and international. Liaises with Special Markets Departments at our other sister companies
8. Provides administrative support for department including: mail distribution, sales materials coordination and distribution, and storage/showroom maintenance

Requirements:

• 1 year publishing or related experience
• Excellent written, verbal and analytical skills
• Ability to multitask and meet deadlines
• Strong attention to detail
• Proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook
• Ability to lift/carry boxes of up to 35 pounds without assistance
• Experience using ACT! 6.0, Microsoft Access and SAP preferred, but not required

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