The Editorial Assistant Rotational Program’s mission is to accelerate the professional growth and development of Early Career Editorial professionals through exposure to a multitude of assignments, apprenticeship style learning, and accelerated responsibility. We are looking for driven, tenacious, and pragmatic team members who have the desire and potential to rise over time into a significant contributor within the Editorial team and our broader direct-to-consumer lifestyle business.
This program offers the opportunity to explore multiple areas of the business including: Licensing & Contracts, Book Selections, Member Experience Programs, Book Merchandising & Inventory, Allurial (our Romantasy business), and Industry Relations. After approximately 2 years, team members will have the opportunity to be placed in a more specialized role based on business needs, individual performance, and interests demonstrated over the previous years.
Success in this program will be achieved by approaching work with the following characteristics:
- Making High Quality Work: Learning how to organize, prioritize, and check work for efficiency, accuracy, and proper formatting.
- Getting Things Done: Exhibits sense of urgency & follow through in assigned tasks; proactively communicates status updates of tasks.
- Possessing Good Judgment: Demonstrates upward trajectory in thinking through steps of work thoroughly and logically.
- Being A Good Learner: Receives feedback well and incorporates it to improve.
What you will do…
- Book Selections: Assist with the Selections process by maintaining our book database, drafting editorial copy, and conducting data analysis of book performance.
- Editorial Operations:Draft and execute licensing agreements, input Editorial content into company systems, and assist with components of hardcover and audiobook production.
- Department of Cultural Arts & Sciences:Support the coordination and execution of cross-functional business initiatives, including original print acquisition and our Collections.
- Allurial:Assist with Editorial initiatives for our Romantasy business by assisting with the production of custom editions, and analyzing book data and member insights.
- Member Experience:Project manage Member Experience initiatives, optimize box rate and books per box through testing and reporting, and serve as the voice of the member by synthesizing platform insights.
- Inventory & Merchandising: Create monthly merchandising plans for our titles, aligned with inventory planning, to optimize the book sales funnel.
- Reading & Recommending:Across all rotations you will read a high volume of books across genres, recommending titles to be considered for BOTM selection.
About you…
- Strong work ethic; ability to learn quickly, take on new challenges, and apply feedback
- Excellent time management and organizational skills
- Strong prioritization skills that allow you to keep projects on track
- Ability to do math and conduct data analysis
- Strong writing and proofreading skills, as well as excellent attention to detail
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to interface comfortably with people at all levels
- Great judgment, with the ability to handle sensitive information with discretion and care
- Fast and avid reader with a deep knowledge of contemporary commercial fiction
Base Salary: $70,000
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