Manager, Design & Marketing (Fablelistik)
Key Skills for This Role
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What You'll Do
Campaign Visuals: Work collaboratively with our marketing team to design digital ads, newsletter/email templates, and promotional graphics.
Brand Stewardship: Maintain, evolve, and enforce brand guidelines, ensuring visual consistency across all customer touchpoints.
Product Photography: Using prototypes and finished copies, stage and photograph materials for promotional graphics and our website.
Content & Social Media: Design engaging organic content for social media platforms (Instagram, TikTok, YouTube), including static graphics, motion design, and video overlays.
Print collateral: Produce high-quality print materials when needed, such as merchandise and packaging.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work alongside editorial, marketing, and the art department to brainstorm creative concepts and bring them from ideation to execution.
Asset Management: Organize and maintain the team's digital asset library, ensuring templates and design files are easily accessible and up to date.
Brainstorm and collaborate with all stakeholders on decisions related to the look and feel of a product (e.g. illustration style, typography choices, layout, covers, icons, infographics, etc.)
Make design corrections, mockups, or typesetting changes, if needed
Maintain promotional powerpoint decks and internal database
Design shipper boxes and packaging, preparing these files to a print-ready standard
What You'll Bring
Experience designing for digital, social, and print applications
A strong portfolio demonstrating a versatile range of marketing assets for the book industry, including product styling/lighting
Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign). Experience with Figma, After Effects, Premiere Pro and video editing software.
Excellent communication skills and an ability to interact effectively across internal teams
Detail-oriented, with the ability to meet deadlines
Strong organizational, problem-solving and prioritization skills
Knowledge of book design/production is a plus
Digital illustration experience is a plus
Knowledge of Airtable is a plus
2+ years of marketing design in trade publishing or DTC e-commerce agency experience, with a focus on video-first design
Motion graphics or video editing skills (After Effects, Premiere Pro)
Experience working with clients or external partners
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in graphic design or another related field, or equivalent work experience preferred
Salary range
- $70,000-$75,000
- FSLA status: Exempt
- This position is classified as remote but is tied to our New York, NY office located at 120 Broadway. Employment is subject to New York State tax withholding under applicable regulations.
- Macmillan Publishers is the U.S. trade company that is part of the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group, a large family-owned group of media companies headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany. Holtzbrinck Publishing Group's publishing companies include prominent imprints around the world that publish a broad range of award-winning books for children and adults in all categories and formats.
- U.S. publishers include Celadon Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Flatiron Books, Henry Holt & Company, Macmillan Audio, Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group, The St. Martin's Publishing Group, and Tor Publishing Group. In the UK, Australia, India, and South Africa, companies in the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group publish under the Pan Macmillan name. The German publishing company, Holtzbrinck Deutsche Buchverlage, includes among its imprints S. Fischer, Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Rowohlt, and Droemer Knaur.
- Macmillan is proud to be an equal opportunity employer consistently striving to foster a culture where everyone belongs. We welcome applicants of all backgrounds and identities. Qualified applicants are evaluated without regard to race, color, religion, age, ethnicity, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability status, physical ability, neurodiversity, genetic information, protected veteran status, family and economic status and background or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. We prohibit discrimination of any kind and will provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities in accordance with applicable law.
Requirements
- Experience designing for digital, social, and print applications
- A strong portfolio demonstrating a versatile range of marketing assets for the book industry, including product styling/lighting
- Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign). Experience with Figma, After Effects, Premiere Pro and video editing software.
- Excellent communication skills and an ability to interact effectively across internal teams
- Detail-oriented, with the ability to meet deadlines
- Strong organizational, problem-solving and prioritization skills
- Knowledge of book design/production is a plus
- Digital illustration experience is a plus
- Knowledge of Airtable is a plus
- 2+ years of marketing design in trade publishing or DTC e-commerce agency experience, with a focus on video-first design
- Motion graphics or video editing skills (After Effects, Premiere Pro)
- Experience working with clients or external partners
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in graphic design or another related field, or equivalent work experience preferred
About Macmillan Publishers
Privately held global trade-book publisher serving adult and children’s readers through books, audio, and digital formats.
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