Senior Acquisitions Editor

Summary

Join Esri Press, a leader in geospatial learning content, as an Acquisitions Editor. You will be responsible for identifying market trends and contracting with talent to create diverse learning materials, including books, courses, and assessments. This role involves developing a multi-modal content strategy, managing projects, and building relationships with subject matter experts. Success requires strong project management skills, publishing experience, and excellent communication abilities. Esri offers a competitive total rewards package, including comprehensive health benefits, retirement plans, paid time off, and opportunities for professional growth.

Requirements

• 5+ years of publishing experience as an acquisitions editor
• Demonstrated experience with project management in a similar environment
• Strong level of organization; ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and to drive on-time, on-budget, high-quality development efforts
• Experience with multi-modal content strategy and digital and print production, including comprehensive knowledge of the market requirements of publishing process
• Excellent problem-solving ability as well as written and verbal communication skills
• Bachelor’s in journalism, communications, advertising, business, or related field

Responsibilities

• Assess education, technology, and academic trends in data science and analytics disciplines and research current and emerging competitors; sign, develop, and publish innovative books in these markets
• Identify and target competitive market opportunities in the GIS domain
• Build and execute on a multi-modal content strategy including but not limited to text, live courses, labs, assessments, and on demand courses
• Identifying trends, technology developments, and skills gaps that present opportunities to develop learning content
• Building relationships and signing with SMEs who are best positioned to shape and create content that addresses the skills gaps
• Continuously monitoring the performance of your content in the platform and adjusting your strategy as necessary
• Coordinate with other acquisition team members to identify new opportunities, develop strategies and visions for new publications, identify business plans, and propose pricing as well as target time frames
• Build up a personal network of academic contacts to identify authors, reviewers, and potential textbook adopters
• Demonstrate effective project management of multiple titles/projects and ensure that all projects release on time and within budget
• Develop product messaging with Marketing and Sales that successfully communicates each book’s mission, identifies critical success factors, and communicates expectations to project participants, both internal and external, including authors
• Cultivate new ideas for projects by identifying talented writers and communicators; upon approval, prepare and negotiate their contracts
• Analyze current and pending acquisitions at each development stage, including preparing and presenting publishing proposals for Esri Press editorial board meetings

Benefits

• Industry-leading health and welfare benefits: medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance for employees (and their families)
• 401(k) and profit-sharing programs
• Minimum accrual of 80 hours of vacation leave
• Twelve paid holidays throughout the calendar year
• Opportunities for personal and professional growth