Sr. Acquisitions Editor – Esri Press

Esri; United States; Remote; USD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as an acquisitions editor, where you'll leverage your publishing expertise to identify market trends and create compelling educational content. This role involves managing multiple projects, collaborating with talented authors, and executing a multi-modal content strategy that spans books, courses, and more. You'll play a pivotal role in shaping the future of geospatial learning, ensuring that innovative materials reach learners across various platforms. If you're passionate about education and publishing, this is an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of publishing experience as an acquisitions editor.
• Strong organization skills to manage multiple projects effectively.

Responsibilities

• Assess market trends and develop innovative publishing strategies.
• Build relationships with SMEs and coordinate project management.

Skills

Project Management

Publishing Experience

Communication Skills

Problem-Solving

Content Strategy

Education

Bachelor’s in Journalism

Bachelor’s in Communications

Bachelor’s in Business

Job description

Esri Press is the industry standard for delivering quality geospatial learning content. From print to web, we collaborate with authors and internal team members to identify opportunities for new publications.

Your responsibilities include identifying market trends and pain points of our customers and contracting with talent to create content to address these pain points. Formats for content are limitless but currently include books, training courses, curriculum, assessments, short-form content, on-demand courses, and certification-related content. A significant part of your role will include identifying opportunities to co-create new content experiences.

Join our dynamic team as we deliver compelling books across a wide variety of platforms, from print, to e-book, to web experiences.

Responsibilities

• Assess education, technology, and academic trends in data science and analytics disciplines and research current and emerging competitors; sign, develop, and publish innovative books in these markets.
• Identify and target competitive market opportunities in the GIS domain.
• Build and execute on a multi-modal content strategy including but not limited to text, live courses, labs, assessments, and on-demand courses. Your core responsibilities include:
  • Identifying trends, technology developments, and skills gaps that present opportunities to develop learning content.
  • Building relationships and signing with SMEs who are best positioned to shape and create content that addresses the skills gaps.
  • Continuously monitoring the performance of your content in the platform and adjusting your strategy as necessary.
• Coordinate with other acquisition team members to identify new opportunities, develop strategies and visions for new publications, identify business plans, and propose pricing as well as target time frames.
• Build up a personal network of academic contacts to identify authors, reviewers, and potential textbook adopters.
• Demonstrate effective project management of multiple titles/projects and ensure that all projects release on time and within budget.
• Develop product messaging with Marketing and Sales that successfully communicates each book’s mission, identifies critical success factors, and communicates expectations to project participants, both internal and external, including authors.
• Cultivate new ideas for projects by identifying talented writers and communicators; upon approval, prepare and negotiate their contracts.
• Analyze current and pending acquisitions at each development stage, including preparing and presenting publishing proposals for Esri Press editorial board meetings.

Requirements

• 5+ years of publishing experience as an acquisitions editor.
• Demonstrated experience with project management in a similar environment.
• Strong level of organization; ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and to drive on-time, on-budget, high-quality development efforts.
• Experience with multi-modal content strategy and digital and print production, including comprehensive knowledge of the market requirements of publishing process.
• Excellent problem-solving ability as well as written and verbal communication skills.
• Bachelor’s in journalism, communications, advertising, business, or related field.

About Esri

At Esri, diversity is more than just a word on a map. When employees of different experiences, perspectives, backgrounds, and cultures come together, we are more innovative and ultimately a better place to work. We believe in having a diverse workforce that is unified under our mission of creating positive global change. We understand that diversity, equity, and inclusion is not a destination but an ongoing process. We are committed to the continuation of learning, growing, and changing our workplace so every employee can contribute to their life’s best work.

If you don’t meet all of the preferred qualifications for this position, we encourage you to still apply!

Esri is an equal opportunity employer (EOE) and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.