Job Description
Production Editor – Zeitgeist Penguin Random House is currently seeking a Production Editor to join an innovative team focused on demand-based, data-driven original titles and adaptations across a variety of nonfiction genres. This position will play an essential role in maintaining editorial standards throughout each book’s production, while collaborating closely with editorial, production, and design colleagues to bring titles to market quickly. For a peek at the titles we’ve produced please click here: https://amzn.to/32RYtDq. Additional responsibilities include: * Hiring and managing a roster of freelance copy editors, proofreaders, and indexers * Reviewing the work of freelancers, which includes clearing manuscripts and post-copyediting * Collating changes from authors, editors, and freelancers in early manuscript passes and page proofs * Coding and tagging manuscripts for design and composition * Copyediting cover copy and paperback additional materials, including sales quotes and marketing copy * Proofreading covers, interiors captions, and additional materials * Collaborating on book schedules and maintaining deadlines * Composing freelancer contracts and executing all payments * Creating and maintaining networks in SAP * Inputting approved sales and marketing copy into internal systemsPlease apply to join us if you meet the following
