Designer, Holt

Henry Holt & Company is looking for a designer to join our cover design team! You will work with the creative director to design book jackets and mechanicals and help manage the Art Department.

What you'll do:

• Design book jackets and covers for a wide array of fiction and non-fiction titles.
• Design, route, and update jacket and cover mechanicals.
• Prepare jacket files for press. This includes: color correcting imagery; setting up effects plates for jackets and covers; color proofing.
• Work with freelancers, including designers, illustrators, photographers and letterers.
• Assist in invoicing, contracts, and rights clearance.
• Follow and help maintain on-time schedules.Bring your unique voice and design sensibility to Henry Holt & Company to help keep our jackets and covers leading the industry!

What you'll bring:

• A strong design skillset, including proficiency in typography, image creation and manipulation, and image research / photo editing.
• The ability to work in various genres and aesthetics.
• Experience creating book jacket mechanicals.
• The ability to create handlettering and/or illustration is a plus, but not a requirement.
• Proficiency in Adobe CC, especially InDesign and Photoshop.
• Knowledge of and an interest in the book publishing industry, especially as it relates to book jackets.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Team player who is motivated to learn from colleaguesA passion for design and reading

Ideal Experience:

• 1-3 years of design experience at a book publisher, or other print media (magazine, newspaper, etc.) Candidates who have interned at a publishing house would also be considered.

This role will have an annual salary of $59,000 - $68,000.

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.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are actively seeking job applicants who reflect a broad representation of differences, including race, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, physical ability, neurodiversity, age, family status, economic background and status, geographical background and status, and perspective. We believe that the best companies reflect the incredible diversity in viewpoints, backgrounds, and identities of the world in their staffs, and are committed to inclusive hiring across departments and levels. The successful candidate for this position will be an employee of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC.