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St. Martin’s Publishing Group is seeking a creative and detail-oriented Marketing Assistant, who will support marketing campaigns across various genres and collaborate with various departments in a close-knit team environment.

Responsibilities: Key responsibilities include planning and implementing marketing campaigns, creating promotional assets, coordinating mailings, assisting in seasonal planning, and managing social media.

Skills: Required skills include familiarity with Photoshop, Canva, WordPress, strong communication skills, excellent attention to detail, and the ability to multi-task and collaborate in a team.

Qualifications: Ideal candidates will have experience in publishing and/or marketing, though it's preferred, not required.

Location: The position is based in New York, New York, United States, with no additional travel required.

Compensation: $50000 - $50000 / Annually

St. Martin’s Publishing Group is seeking a detail-oriented, creative, and resourceful Marketing Assistant. SMPG excels at finding books with commercial appeal across a wide variety of genres. This role will support St. Martin’s Press, Minotaur Books, and St. Martin’s Essentials so candidates should have a strong interest in both fiction and nonfiction. We are a close-knit team that collaborates on titles ranging from biographies, memoirs, and history to mystery, thriller, and true crime.

What you'll do:

• Work closely with the VP of Marketing and the team to plan, develop, and implement marketing campaigns for both fiction and nonfiction titles
• Assist in the creation of sales and promotional assets 
• Coordinate mailings to industry professionals, consumers, and influencers
• Assist in seasonal planning including ARC distribution, catalog marketing plans, and maintaining budgets
• Collaborate across publicity, editorial, operations, and the creative studio departments
• Help manage in-house social media and community sites

What you'll bring:

• Familiarity with Photoshop, Canva, WordPress, Microsoft Suite
• Strong verbal and written communication 
• Excellent attention to detail
• Ability to multi-task and prioritize workload 
• Strong capacity to collaborate in a team environment

Ideal Experience:

• Experience in publishing and/or marketing (Preferred)

This role will have an annual salary of $50,000.

Macmillan Publishers is the U.S. trade company that is part of the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group, a large family-owned group of media companies headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany. Holtzbrinck Publishing Group's publishing companies include prominent imprints around the world that publish a broad range of award-winning books for children and adults in all categories and formats.

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. In the UK, Australia, India, and South Africa, companies in the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group publish under the Pan Macmillan name. The German publishing company, Holtzbrinck Deutsche Buchverlage, includes among its imprints S. Fischer, Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Rowohlt, and Droemer Knaur.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are actively seeking job applicants who reflect a broad representation of differences, including race, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, physical ability, neurodiversity, age, family status, economic background and status, geographical background and status, and perspective. We believe that the best companies reflect the incredible diversity in viewpoints, backgrounds, and identities of the world in their staffs, and are committed to inclusive hiring across departments and levels. The successful candidate for this position will be an employee of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC.