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Manager, Design & Marketing (Fablelistik)

New York City, NY (Remote)

$70K/yr – $75K/yrManager2+ years expFull time

Posted 3 weeks ago

Job Summary

Own the end-to-end design of marketing assets for books, guiding visuals across digital, social, and print while upholding brand standards through close collaboration with editorial, marketing, and product teams.

  • Lead concept development and asset creation for campaigns, social content, and packaging
  • Ensure consistent brand guidelines across all customer touchpoints

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Campaign Visuals: Work collaboratively with our marketing team to design digital ads, newsletter/email templates, and promotional graphics.
  • Brand Stewardship: Maintain, evolve, and enforce brand guidelines, ensuring visual consistency across all customer touchpoints.
  • Product Photography: Using prototypes and finished copies, stage and photograph materials for promotional graphics and our website.
  • Content & Social Media: Design engaging organic content for social media platforms (Instagram, TikTok, YouTube), including static graphics, motion design, and video overlays.
  • Print collateral: Produce high-quality print materials when needed, such as merchandise and packaging.
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work alongside editorial, marketing, and the art department to brainstorm creative concepts and bring them from ideation to execution.
  • Asset Management: Organize and maintain the team's digital asset library, ensuring templates and design files are easily accessible and up to date.
  • Brainstorm and collaborate with all stakeholders on decisions related to the look and feel of a product (e.g. illustration style, typography choices, layout, covers, icons, infographics, etc.)
  • Make design corrections, mockups, or typesetting changes, if needed
  • Maintain promotional powerpoint decks and internal database

Requirements

  • Experience designing for digital, social, and print applications
  • A strong portfolio demonstrating a versatile range of marketing assets for the book industry, including product styling/lighting
  • Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign). Experience with Figma, After Effects, Premiere Pro and video editing software.
  • Excellent communication skills and an ability to interact effectively across internal teams
  • Detail-oriented, with the ability to meet deadlines
  • Strong organizational, problem-solving and prioritization skills
  • Knowledge of book design/production is a plus
  • Digital illustration experience is a plus
  • Knowledge of Airtable is a plus
  • 2+ years of marketing design in trade publishing or DTC e-commerce agency experience, with a focus on video-first design

Preferred

  • Knowledge of book design/production is a plus
  • Digital illustration experience is a plus
  • Knowledge of Airtable is a plus
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We deeply believe in the power of books to connect people, amplify diverse voices, create meaningful change, and make a lasting impact in the world. Macmillan Publishers is a leading publishing company and home to some of the world's most cherished authors and creators. We are firmly committed to our employees, authors, and core values — and strive to build a culture that is inclusive of diverse voices and perspectives throughout all levels of the company. Our U.S. publishers include Celadon Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Flatiron Books, Henry Holt & Company, Macmillan Audio, Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group, The St. Martin's Publishing Group, and Tor Publishing Group. Macmillan Publishers is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to reflecting a broad representation of differences — race, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, physical ability, age, family status, economic background and status, geographical background and status, and perspective — in our workplace.

New York, NY, US
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us.macmillan.com
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$70K/yr – $75K/yr

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Manager, Design & Marketing (Fablelistik)

Macmillan · New York City, NY · Remote