Audio Operations and Marketing Specialist (Nashville, TN Hybrid)

Nashville, TN (Hybrid)

Salary Not AvailableMid LevelFull time

Posted 5 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own audiobook marketing support and cross-team coordination, turning rights research, production tracking, and campaign support into a steady flow of title updates and insights.

  • Responsibilities: Own rights research to inform production planning and share findings with stakeholders.
  • Campaign Ops: Run scheduling, reporting, and collaboration with imprint marketing on frontlist and backlist outreach.
  • Operational Marketing: Coordinate review submissions and maintain clean records to speed planning and execution.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Research contracts and capture relevant audio rights information, then share findings with the appropriate stakeholders
  • Assist the Associate Publisher in managing backlist audio production and title management
  • Submit agreements, amendments, and performer agreement requests as needed
  • Support the Associate Publisher with scheduling and meeting coordination
  • Support the Associate Publisher in generating regular sales and production reports.
  • Support the Senior Marketing Manager of Audio with day-to-day audiobook marketing efforts across frontlist and backlist titles.
  • Coordinate select audiobook review submissions, including identifying appropriate opportunities, gathering required materials, and tracking outreach status.
  • Partner with imprint marketing teams to share audiobook marketing updates, assets, and opportunities that support title, author, and audience outreach.
  • Maintain organized records of audiobook marketing activity, performance updates, and platform needs to support more efficient planning and reporting.
  • Provide flexible support on emerging audio marketing initiatives, campaign needs, and cross-functional projects as the role develops.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
  • Able to set priorities and problem-solve under pressure, with guidance from senior leadership
  • Self-starter who handles ambiguity well
  • Adept at evaluating existing processes and suggesting improvements
  • Eager to learn and a strong team player who is comfortable collaborating with multiple teams.
  • Detail-oriented and well-organized, with solid project management skills
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, including Excel
  • A genuine enthusiasm for the audiobook format and its unique storytelling potential
  • HarperCollins Publishers is an equal opportunity employer.

Preferred

  • Prior publishing experience, including internships, a bonus but not required.
  • Conversational or fluent in Spanish, a plus.
  • Interest in reading & listening to books as well as consuming media, a plus.

Benefits

  • comprehensive and highly competitive benefits package, with a variety of physical health, retirement and savings, caregiving, emotional wellbeing, transportation, and other benefits, including "elective" benefits employees may select to best fit the needs and personal situations of our diverse workforce.
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HarperCollins Publishers is the second-largest consumer book publisher in the world. Headquartered in New York, HarperCollins has publishing operations in 15 countries. With two hundred years of history and more than 120 branded imprints around the world, HarperCollins publishes approximately 10,000 new books every year in 16 languages, and has a print and digital catalog of more than 250,000 titles. Writing across dozens of genres, HarperCollins authors include winners of the Nobel Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Newbery and Caldecott Medals, and the Man Booker Prize. HarperCollins is a subsidiary of News Corp. The house of Mark Twain, the Brontë sisters, Thackeray, Dickens, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Maurice Sendak, Shel Silverstein, and Margaret Wise Brown, HarperCollins has a long and rich history that reaches back to the early nineteenth century and offers our publishing team a depth of experience that few others can rival—from the modest print shop that James and John Harper opened in 1817 to the global house we are today.

New York, New York, USA
4.3K employees (2,542 in marketing)
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49% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
1M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$3.1K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
43.7%
Direct
40.4%
Referral
10.2%
Social
4.9%
Paid
0.6%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~4.3K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
2,146 (50% of company)
Median Career Experience
10 years
Median Tenure
4.5 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
2

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