Harper Collins is Hiring an Asst Art Director (NYC/hybrid)
Salary range: $85,000-$95,00
Our Harper Books Art Dept team is currently seeking an Assistant Art Director to join the fast-paced, creative team. In this role, the Assistant Art Director will design and art direct covers for a wide range of titles under the Harper imprints. Our titles range from literary to commercial fiction/non-fiction, celebrity memoirs, cookbooks, fantasy, sci-fi and romance. Our ideal candidate would be comfortable working across all of these genres.
About the company
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.
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REQUIREMENTS
7 years experience in publishing for the adult trade market.
Diverse design sensibility in both fiction (literary to fantasy) and non-fiction.
Strong typographic knowledge and skills. Must be an independent and strong thinker.
Must be extremely well organized, able to manage many projects simultaneously.
Needs excellent communication, interpersonal and project management skills.
Should have strong Mac skills including AdobeCC, basic retouching and photo/image compositing.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Works closely with senior art directors, editors, illustrators, photographers and freelance designers in creation of covers.
Designs or supervises design and manages all phases of design process and production process.
Handles projects/tasks assigned in a timely way by being a trouble-shooter, problem solver and deadline maker.
BENEFITS + PERKS
Comprehensive & 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.
HarperCollins Publishers is a company full of people who are passionate about books. When you apply for a position, we want to know why you want to work here, and why you are interested in the job. That’s why cover letters are strongly preferred.
