Literary Hub is hiring a Senior Editor to assistance make and negociate a caller tract launching successful Spring 2027. The vertical volition screen the afloat scope of books published each year, fabrication and nonfiction, successful each class from children’s books to romance to idiosyncratic finance. It volition bring unneurotic opinions from critics, authors, booksellers, librarians, and readers.
This is simply a uncommon accidental to assistance signifier a work from the crushed up. You’ll articulation earlier motorboat and enactment intimately with Lit Hub elder unit to make its editorial voice, standards, and workflows. The relation is fast-paced and captious to a palmy launch, truthful you’ll request fantabulous organizational and connection skills, and enthusiasm for the work.
Responsibilities
• Help make the editorial strategy, standards, and workflows for a prolific, high-traffic vertical, from pre-launch done post-launch.
• Work with an editorial calendar crossed 3 cadences:
• Daily features: timely contented tied to the quality rhythm and caller releases.
• Weekly features similar caller books roundups and publication trends.
• Monthly and seasonal features: previews and best-of lists crossed genres and categories, back-to-school, year-end lists, and more.
• Commission and solicit contributions from authors, critics, booksellers, librarians, academics, and different experts.
• Write and edit articles, reviews, newsletters, and publication roundups.
• Manage adjunct editors for the caller vertical arsenic it expands.
• Manage freelance writers, assignments, and budget.
• Create and oversee respective play newsletters.
• Collaborate with editors crossed Literary Hub’s household of sites, including Lit Hub, CrimeReads, and Book Marks, connected content, cross-promotion, and partnerships.
• Stay connected apical of the publishing manufacture and the important books published each year.
You have
• At slightest 4 years of combined acquisition successful publication publishing oregon publication media and successful online media, including immoderate acquisition managing radical oregon freelancers.
• Wide-ranging speechmaking habits and the judgement to measure books connected their ain terms, whether literate fiction, romance, oregon a usher to idiosyncratic finance.
• Deep familiarity with online publication culture.
• Working cognition of online publishing tools: CMS, newsletter platforms, and analytics.
• Experience with assemblage development, integer marketing, societal media, and SEO.
• An knowing of the challenges facing publishing, peculiarly discoverability.
• A favourite bookstore, and a existent room card.
Nice to have
• existing relationships with authors, critics, booksellers, oregon librarians.
Details
• We are based successful NYC but afloat remote.
• Starting Salary is $72-75k per twelvemonth with wellness benefits
• Start date: Dec 1, 2026
To apply: Send a resume to jobs@lithub.com. We volition besides request 3 little pitches for timely publication lists. Timely successful this lawsuit means either pegged to the quality cycle, the season, oregon the existent speech online. Please see a compelling headline, and astatine slightest 3 imaginable titles (however, capsule reviews are NOT required). For examples, spot here, here, here, and here.
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