Marketing Coordinator, Flatiron Books

  • Full-Time
  • New York, NY
  • Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC
  • Posted 2 years ago – Accepting applications
Job Description

Flatiron Books is seeking a creative, organized, and enthusiastic person to join our team as a marketing coordinator. This position will work closely on marketing campaigns, provide administrative support, aid in the creation of content and materials and communicate across departments, authors, and agents. The ideal candidate must possess strong project and time management skills, attention to detail, and creativity.

What you'll do:

  • Assist in planning and execution of marketing plans for titles, series, and authors
  • Report on marketing campaign performance, including understanding and analyzing data, to improve overall performance and drive sales
  • Lead marketing efforts on select paperback, hardcover, and backlist titles
  • Social media promotion, including writing social media copy, content calendar, and taking lifestyle photos and creation of videos (with an eye toward growth on TikTok)
  • Maintain influencer mailing lists and execute on swag mailings
  • Manage eBook promotion calendar and submit quarterly nominations
  • Book seasonal advertising campaigns with media partners such as BookRiot and Shelf Awareness
  • Upload sales materials to Edelweiss and provide internally for sales and rights departments; provide sales images and videos to retail partners including Amazon, Target, BN
  • Update internal marketing shells, project grids, and track galley inventory
  • Manage monthly genre newsletter submissions, including writing copy and providing links
  • Help train and work with seasonal department interns
  • Support Marketing VP and Assistant Director as needed

What you'll bring:

  • Superb written and verbal communication skills
  • Strong organizational and problem-solving skills: ability to multi-task, prioritize, manage time effectively, and thrive in a fast-paced environment
  • Ability to work well independently and collaboratively
  • Ability to proofread and copyedit
  • Presentation, database, and spreadsheet skills
  • Comfortable with learning new technologies

Ideal Experience/Education:

  • 1-2 years of prior book publishing or marketing experience
  • Experience with social media, including audiences on and creating content for social media, including videos
  • Associate Degree or higher

Macmillan Publishers is a global trade book publishing company with prominent imprints around the world, publishing a broad range of award-winning books for children and adults in all categories and formats. Macmillan Publishers is committed to our authors, our employees, and to the environment.

U.S. publishers include Celadon Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Flatiron Books, Henry Holt & Company, Macmillan Audio, Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group, Picador, St. Martin's Press and Tor Books. In the UK, Australia, India, and South Africa, Macmillan publishes under the Pan Macmillan name. The German company, Holtzbrinck Deutsche Buchverlage, includes among its imprints S. Fischer, Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Rowohlt, and Droemer Knaur.

Macmillan Publishers is a part of the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group, a large family-owned media group of companies headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are actively seeking job applicants who reflect a broad representation of differences, including race, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, physical ability, neurodiversity, age, family status, economic background and status, geographical background and status, and perspective. We believe that the best companies reflect the incredible diversity in viewpoints, backgrounds, and identities of the world in their staffs, and are committed to inclusive hiring across departments and levels. The successful candidate for this position will be an employee of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC.

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