Publicity & Marketing Manager, Simon & Schuster

New York City, NY (Remote)

$80K/yr – $90K/yrMid Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 2 months ago

Top 1% of applicants do these two things.

The other 99% submit and hope. You're about to do something different.

Job Summary

Drive faith-based book publicity across multi-channel campaigns, shaping author platforms and partnerships with Christian media, retailers, and communities to maximize visibility and market impact.

  • Grow integrated campaigns across media, influencers, church partnerships, social, podcasts, events, and reader communities.
  • Coordinate with editors, authors, agents, and sales to align branding and maximize market impact.

Job Description

Drive faith-based book publicity across multi-channel campaigns, shaping author platforms and partnerships with Christian media, retailers, and communities to maximize visibility and market impact.

  • Growth & Publicity Campaigns: Develop and execute integrated marketing and publicity campaigns for frontlist and select backlist religion and spirituality titles
  • Audience & Partnerships: Create audience-driven campaigns spanning media, influencer outreach, church and ministry partnerships, social media, podcast strategy, paid marketing, events, and reader community engagement
  • Relationship & Outreach: Cultivate and maintain relationships with Christian media outlets, Christian thought leaders, faith-based influencers, podcasters, pastors, ministry organizations, booksellers, and conference organizers
  • Opportunities & Coverage: Secure national, regional, and niche publicity opportunities across print, digital, broadcast, podcast, and Christian media platforms
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate closely with editors, authors, agents, sales teams, and external partners to position titles for maximum visibility and market impact
  • Trend & Audience Insight: Identify emerging trends and audience opportunities within Christian lifestyle, spirituality, devotionals, and faith-adjacent culture
  • Author Platform Support: Support author platform development and strategic brand-building initiatives
  • Campaign Management: Oversee campaign budgets, timelines, analytics, and reporting
  • Event & Outreach Coordination: Coordinate conference presence, speaking opportunities, launch events, and faith-community outreach efforts
  • Sales Alignment: Partner with sales teams to support relationships with Christian retailers, independent bookstores, and specialty accounts

Simon & Schuster

3.5 Glassdoor

Simon & Schuster is a global leader in the field of general interest publishing, providing consumers worldwide with a diverse range of quality books across a wide variety of genres and printed and digital formats.

Founded in 1924
New York, New York, USA
2.4K employees (1,595 in marketing)
51% recommend to a friend
79% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
1.8M
Traffic Source Mix
Search
45.7%
Direct
40%
Referral
9.7%
Social
3.9%
Paid
0.6%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~2.4K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
1,295 (54% of company)
Median Career Experience
10 years
Median Tenure
4.3 years

Recent News