K-12 Acquisitions Editor — Remote & Impactful

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

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