Greetings Friend.
We are Content Workflows at Macmillan.
This is a job posting.
Are you our new Editorial Workflows Specialist? What does that even mean? Read on!
First, who are we?
We’re new!
We’re part of Macmillan!
Macmillan Publishers is a global trade publishing company, owned by Verlagsgruppe George von Holtzbrinck*. We publish all kind of awesome things—including award-winning fiction and nonfiction, and much-loved children's books!
* It's German!
We're the fifth-largest trade publisher
here in the U.S.
And we think that's the perfect size.
The publishing industry is evolving, and we wanted to find the best ways to meet this evolution head-on.
But the books never stop and our people have jobs to do, so in 2013 we put together a whole new team just to focus on this.
We’re still growing.
Our mission
We want to help our people make even more high quality books with the best tools.
If a tool doesn’t exist, we find a way to make it.
We want to build systems that don’t suck
And make beautiful things (books!)
And have fun
Where are we?
Technically, we’re in IT
This doesn’t mean we’re programmers, but we’re definitely nerds.
We work in the Flatiron building
The whole building is Macmillan’s!
The job, in brief:
It’s an environment of constant change!
If that doesn’t sound awesome to you, then you can stop suffering through this weird job posting. We still want to be friends with you, though.
You will:
Help people do better
Help people make books
Find problems - make solutions - test tools - teach people
Who are you?
You’re excited about…
Showing people new things
Discovering new developments in technology
The business of creating and distributing content
We could have just said “publishing”, but WORDS, amirite?
You’re really good at:
Book production & editorial processes
I mean, sure, we’re changing and improving things, but you’ve got to understand where people are coming from and how they’re doing their jobs.
Microsoft Word and Adobe InDesign
We’re trying to find the best ways to use these industry standard tools, but we’re also experimenting with new tools, so the most important thing is for you to be good at
Learning!
And teaching people the new things you’ve learned.
What you’ll be doing:
Teaching people how to use the new tools and processes we develop
And finding new, fun ways to teach people.
Does this mean written documentation? Does it mean in-person classes? Does it mean video tutorials? You tell us!
Figuring out how people want to work, and helping us use that information to everyone’s advantage
Working with us to visualize and implement a beautiful holistic workflow.
We want to fix everything. We’re starting at the very beginning, so right now that means Microsoft Word, but next year it might mean markup-based toolchains or asset management or marketing packages or ?????
