Senior Media Editor - AI-Driven Education Publishing

Macmillan Learning; Austin (TX); Hybride; USD 60 000 - 72 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Health insurance

401(k) contributions

Paid time off

Headspace access

Life insurance

Résumé du poste

Macmillan Learning, a division of Bedford, Freeman & Worth Publishing Group, LLC, seeks a Senior Media Editor in Austin for a hybrid role. You’ll guide editorial projects across high school content, collaborating with authors, vendors, and product teams to deliver high-quality materials. Emphasis on AI/automation to increase capacity and efficiency.

You’ll lead plans, budgets, and schedules, while maintaining editorial excellence and stakeholder communications in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of editorial experience in educational publishing or educational technology, including 3+ years of media editorial experience.
• A bachelor's degree or higher.
• Senior-level judgment and leadership.
• Organizational and project management skills, including managing multiple projects at once in a fast-paced environment, prioritizing effectively, working through problems with a group, and staying within an approved budget.
• Attention to detail, self-motivation, and a commitment to quality, including improving how you assess vendors and authors, ensure diligent content development and QA, and refine authorship guidelines.
• Written and verbal communication skills that you can adapt for different audiences.
• Experience managing authors and freelancers, talking with users of our products, and collaborating across functions with internal stakeholders.
• An understanding of how digital content and platform functionality work together.
• Interest in finding and assessing the authors, freelancers, and vendors who can help us deliver on our mission.
• Facility with AI prompting and with building or testing AI tools, and an understanding of the legal and ethical limits of AI use.
• Experience with Google Workspace

Responsabilités

• Plan, initiate, and oversee projects in coordination with the Program Manager, Development Editor, Content Producer, Product, and Production.
• Keep project stakeholders informed about status, issues, scheduling, and budget, and share evolving information from Product, Engineering, and Program Management.
• Assess user needs and join status and exploratory meetings with fellow editors to plan content that works effectively with platform functionality.
• Recommend and implement changes to schedules, budgets, or content based on new functionality on the horizon.
• Correspond with multimedia authors about their products and tasks, helping them prioritize and deliver quality, on-time content for turnover to production.
• Identify, assess, hire, and correspond with vendors and freelancers on multimedia content and projects.
• Manage assigned in-flight projects, assessing their status, connecting with colleagues, authors, and vendors, and continuing or revising the workflow as needed.
• Assess our processes for efficiency opportunities and pilot AI and automation in internal and authoring processes, documenting effective practices and measuring changes in turnaround time, cost, or capacity while maintaining editorial quality.
• Evaluate and negotiate input from marketing and sales on customer-related requests, and provide copy, preliminary files, and tables of contents for marketing and sales tools.
• Attend relevant conferences, sales presentations, and company meetings to promote our products and gather market information.

Connaissances

Editorial leadership

Project management

AI prompting

Vendor management

Communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Attention to detail

Editorial strategy

Formation

Bachelor's degree or higher

Outils

Google Workspace

Google Apps Script

Description du poste

Macmillan Learning, a division of Bedford, Freeman & Worth Publishing Group, LLC, seeks a Senior Media Editor in Austin for a hybrid role. You’ll guide editorial projects across high school content, collaborating with authors, vendors, and product teams to deliver high-quality materials. Emphasis on AI/automation to increase capacity and efficiency.

You’ll lead plans, budgets, and schedules, while maintaining editorial excellence and stakeholder communications in a fast-paced environment.