Marketing Assistant (NYC Hybrid) - HarperCollins Publishers

Overview

The HarperOne Group seeks a Marketing Assistant for HarperVia, HarperCollins Español, and Amistad. In this role, you will assist the VP, Deputy Publisher with a variety of marketing activities including updating presentations, tracking expenses, helping monitor seasonal deadlines, ordering materials, light research, and processing invoices. The role requires someone skilled in managing deadlines, maintaining spreadsheets, scheduling meetings, and taking clear meticulous notes.

The mission of the HarperOne Group is to publish books for the world we want to live in. Our imprints acquire books that represent a broad and diverse collection of voices, cultures, and perspectives and shares a commitment to publishing books that matter, enlighten, and entertain. We seek to grow our books and our team with passionate, authentic marketing.

This position is based out of our New York office.

Responsibilities

• Schedules and coordinates meetings, video conferences, and conference calls.
• Prepares and distributes materials for meetings.
• Takes notes in select meetings, and distributes accordingly.
• Processes invoices and monthly expense reports.
• As needed, writes or identifies copy for a variety of marketing needs.
• Enters data for seasonal marketing campaigns.
• Prepares materials for seasonal meetings and sales communications and collateral.
• Orders galleys and books for mailings and occasional office supplies.
• Executes mailings as needed.
• Provides general support to marketing projects as needed.

Qualifications

• Four-year college degree or equivalent work experience
• Proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
• Excellent writing, communication skills, and attention to detail
• Ability to work effectively, collaboratively, and with all levels of management
• Ability to be flexible, reliable, and efficient
• A motivated self-starter with a love for books
• Strong knowledge of social media and web technologies (e.g. Facebook, Shortstack, Email deployment, Snapchat, Instagram)
• Native or bilingual proficiency in Spanish a plus
• Prior internship experience in publishing and/or marketing a plus

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.

The salary for this position is $50,000. We recognize that attracting the best talent is key to our strategy and success as a company. As a result, we aim for flexibility in structuring competitive compensation offers to ensure we are able to attract the best candidates. The quoted salary range represents our good faith estimate as to what our ideal candidates are likely to expect, and we tailor our offers within the range based on the selected candidate's experience, industry knowledge, technical and communication skills, and other factors that may prove relevant during the interview process.  

In addition to cash compensation, the company provides a comprehensive and 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 an equal opportunity employer.