Acquisitions Editor, Corwin

Sage; Washington (District of Columbia); Remote; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Sage Publishing, in its Corwin imprint, is seeking an Acquisitions Editor to identify authors and ideas that help K-12 educators grow. You will build a market-informed list of professional learning books and collaborate across Content Development, Marketing, and Sales to acquire, develop, launch, and sustain titles that make a difference for educators and students.

This remote role includes travel to K-12 conferences and engagements with authors to shape proposals, negotiate terms, and manage

Qualifications

• 3-4 years of relevant experience in book acquisitions, content development, marketing, sales, or a related publishing function.
• Strong editorial instincts, curiosity, relationship building, negotiation, communication, and project management.
• Ability to analyze market and customer evidence, make recommendations, and manage multiple projects and deadlines.
• Comfort with technology, systems, digital content, change, and cross-functional collaboration.
• Sound business judgment, including consideration of revenue, profitability, budgets, and resource trade-offs.

Responsibilities

• Build expertise in the K-12 professional learning market, including trends and competitive landscape.
• Identify and recruit authors and coauthors, shape proposals, prepare business cases, present to Publishing Committee, and negotiate contracts.
• Manage active titles and revisions, including schedules, author care, profitability, and launch readiness.
• Design and interpret surveys, reviews, focus groups, and interviews with educators to test concepts, content, and value propositions.
• Partner with Content Development, Marketing, Sales, and other teams to align strategy and launch new titles.
• Present new titles at sales meetings and travel to K-12 education conferences to learn about trends and connect with potential authors.

Skills

Editorial instincts

Relationship building

Negotiation

Communication

Project management

Market analysis

Tech familiarity

Job description

The Opportunity

Behind every great classroom is an educator who never stops learning, and often that learning starts with a book. As Acquisitions Editor, Corwin, you'll find and sign the authors and ideas that help K-12 teachers, school leaders, and district teams grow in their practice. You'll get to know what educators need, build a market-informed list of professional learning books, and partner with teams across Corwin, from Content Development to Marketing and Sales, to acquire, develop, launch, and sustain titles that make a difference for educators and the students they serve. If you're curious, love building relationships with authors and educators, and want to see great ideas reach classrooms, we'd love to meet you.

What You Will Help Achieve

• Fill the pipeline with distinctive, market-relevant books for K-12 educators and guide projects from concept through launch and revision.
• Build trusted relationships with current and prospective authors, K-12 practitioners, researchers, subject-matter experts, and internal partners.
• Use market insight, customer evidence, and commercial judgment to help grow Corwin's book portfolio.

What You Will Do

• Build expertise in the K-12 professional learning market, including what teachers, school leaders, and district teams need, how they choose resources, curriculum and instructional trends, and the competitive landscape.
• Identify and recruit authors and coauthors, shape proposals, prepare persuasive business cases, present new projects to the Publishing Committee, and negotiate approved contract terms.
• Manage active titles and revisions, including schedules, author care, product differentiation, profitability, and launch readiness.
• Design and interpret surveys, reviews, focus groups, and interviews with educators to test concepts, content, and value propositions.
• Partner with Content Development, Marketing, Sales, and other teams to align strategy, launch new titles, and help sellers share the value of your list.
• Present new titles at sales meetings and travel to K-12 education conferences and events to learn about trends and connect with potential authors.

What You Will Bring

• 3-4 years of relevant experience in book acquisitions, content development, marketing, sales, or a related publishing function.
• Strong editorial instincts, curiosity, relationship building, negotiation, communication, and project management.
• Ability to analyze market and customer evidence, make recommendations, and manage multiple projects and deadlines.
• Comfort with technology, systems, digital content, change, and cross-functional collaboration.
• Sound business judgment, including consideration of revenue, profitability, budgets, and resource trade-offs.

Helpful, But Not Essential

• Experience in K-12 education, whether as an educator or school leader or in education or professional publishing.
• Experience working with authors, educators, or professional learning content.

Work And Travel

This role is expected to be remote, with travel to K-12 education conferences, author and customer engagements, and periodic company or sales meetings.

Why join Sage?

• Work with colleagues who care about education, evidence, and helping ideas reach the people who need them.
• Contribute in a collaborative, international organization with room to learn, grow, and shape how we work.
• Access a comprehensive benefits package.

An inclusive opportunity

We know that strong candidates do not always meet every preferred qualification. If this role interests you and you can demonstrate many of the capabilities described, we encourage you. We value transferable experience, different career paths, and the perspectives people bring from varied backgrounds and communities.

Sage is committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment experience. If you need a reasonable accommodation at any stage of the process, please let the Talent Acquisition team know.

Sage is an equal opportunity employer. Employment decisions are based on role-related qualifications, skills, experience, and business needs.

Pay Transparency & Benefits Package

Sage Publishing is committed to being an inclusive employer where all individuals are treated with fairness and respect. Sage is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. Compensation at Sage is influenced by several factors, including but not limited to skill set, nature and level of experience, qualifications, and other relevant considerations. Please note that the compensation details listed in U.S. role postings reflect the base salary only and do not include bonuses or benefits. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range and additional aspects of the compensation/benefits package for this position during the hiring process. If your desired salary falls outside of this range, we hope you'll still apply as there may be other positions that better align.

In addition to compensation, Sage offers a highly competitive and comprehensive PPO medical, dental, and vision care benefits package with SAGE covering most of the premium costs. Unique program benefits that support a healthy life, a company-sponsored anniversary trip every 5 years, a 401(k)-matching program of 100% up to 5% of pay, and other significant meaningful benefits. In alignment with our value for education, Sage offers financial support for bachelor's and graduate-level degree programs as well as learning for personal interest. Sage offers freedom and autonomy in your day-to-day with hybrid or remote work, depending on the role. Join the nearly 2,000 Sage employees worldwide who deliver products and services that serve to fulfill our noble goal of education and dissemination of knowledge globally.

Sage Publishing is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified applicants. Accommodations will be made for any part of the interview process.