Production Manager

US Tech Solutions; United States; Remote; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the publishing industry is seeking a Production Manager for a 9-month contract. This fully remote role involves overseeing the production of physical and e-books, ensuring high-quality output through effective project management and collaboration with various teams. Candidates should have 3-5 years of experience in production management, particularly in publishing, and possess strong organizational and communication skills.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years’ experience in production management for a publishing house.
• Experience in operations and high-level collaboration.
• Book publishing experience is required.

Responsibilities

• Support and track day-to-day production workflows.
• Manage production schedules and files.
• Maintain vendor relationships and ensure quality control.

Skills

Project management

Collaboration

Communication

Organization

Education

Bachelor’s degree in relevant industry

Tools

Salesforce

Slack

Job description

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Base pay range

$65.00/hr - $69.00/hr

Duration: 09 months contract

This role can be fully remote/virtual and schedule is align to local core hours

Payrange: $65/hr -$69/hr on W2 without benefits.

Job Description:

Summary:

• Client Publishing is looking for a temporary Production Manager to support the creation of its physical and e-books in a fast-paced environment.
• The successful candidate will be well-organized and metrics-driven, with a strong bias for action and ability to independently execute end-to-end book creation processes.
• This role will have daily contact with content and metadata and will support numerous production services that result in a high-quality final book.
• The Production Manager will help identify, define, propose and deliver process improvements and tools for the production of Client Publishing books.
• This position works closely with editorial, marketing, publicity and operations as well as with external vendors to ensure our books reach market on schedule and at the highest quality levels.

Responsibilities include:

• Supporting and tracking day-to-day production workflows, ensuring processes are documented, efficient, streamlined, and that books are produced at the highest quality
• Establishing priorities, identifying and communicating risks and mitigation plans in collaboration with stakeholders; developing and maintaining production milestones and completion dates
• Managing production schedules and files: supervise production progress and review files for quality issues to ensure deadlines are met throughout all phases of book production
• Maintaining vendor relationships: manage communication, oversee and review quality of work, and facilitate issue resolution
• Ingesting and archiving files using internal systems
• Championing new technologies, collaborations, and improved processes to define, leverage and implement best content production and delivery practices including continuous improvements in quality, cost reduction, production time and pipeline capacity
• Delivering operationalmetrics that drive process improvement and efficiencies with a focus on creating scalable systems

Required Skills:

• Working in 2 imprints: digital only (kindle) – various contents and genres, mass market women’s fictions print and e-book formats
• Handling end to end process, each team member accountable for approx.
• 30-40 titles in various states of production
• Fully autonomous for title, working with editor and author
• Highly collaborative role. Interacting across time zones, work with stakeholders across teams
• Project management software in Salesforce; utilizing email and Slack
• Quality control for copy coming from vendor
• 6 months to 1 year production cycle
• Every day is differentdue to various stages of production cycle per book

Required:

• 3-5 years’ experience in production management for publishing house (can be combination of freelance, contract, in-house, etc)
• Wil consider magazine or content production experience
• Various media types – digital and print
• Book publishing experience
• Experience in operations
• High level collaboration
• Excellent communication and organization skills

Degree/Certification:

• College degree – Bachelor’s in relevant industry

Preferred:

• 4-5+ years experience in content production and copy

Top 3 Must Haves:

• 3-5 years copy editing experience
• PM experience
• 3-5 years Publishing experience

About US Tech Solutions:

US Tech Solutions is a global staff augmentation firm providing a wide range of talent on-demand and total workforce solutions. To know more about US Tech Solutions, please visit www.ustechsolutions.com.

"U.S. Tech Solutions, Inc. is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer. Our employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, marital status, veteran or military status, or any other legally protected status."

Recruiter's Details:

Internal Job ID: 25-39388

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Executive

Employment type

• Employment type

  Contract

Job function

• Job function

  Production and Project Management

• Industries

  Book and Periodical Publishing and Retail Books and Printed News

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