CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

The Sales Associate for Custom Publishing plays a critical role in driving the day-to-day execution and account management of our custom product offerings. Reporting directly to the Director of Custom Publishing, this role serves as the primary operational liaison for select retail, licensing, and brand partners. The ideal candidate will bridge client needs with internal editorial and production workflows, track data to inform executive strategy, and ensure that custom publishing projects are delivered on time, within budget, and optimized for market success.

Strategic Oversight & Core Responsibilities

• Dedicated Account Management: Serve as the primary day-to-day contact for select custom publishing clients, ensuring proactive communication, prompt issue resolution, and exceptional client satisfaction throughout the product lifecycle.
• Relationship Building: Create, maintain, and foster excellent personal and professional relationships with end-customer buyers as well as all product management staff.
• Proactive Partner Strategy: Assist brand and retail partners with proprietary products, including positioning, configuration, and sales strategy, to help drive sell-through. Continually keep customers up to date on marketing initiatives to drive demand and secure increased placement for custom titles.
• Revenue Operations & Reporting: Track account health, manage the intake and routing of purchase orders, and build reporting tools to monitor pipeline opportunities and project progress. Monitor, report on, and contextualize Point of Sale (POS) data by title and customer to identify performance trends.
• Pipeline & Production Tracking: Monitor project milestones, enforce internal timelines, and track deliverables across editorial, design, and production teams to guarantee on-time market delivery.
• Asset Management: Organize and manage client assets, contract routing, and approval workflows for custom proprietary products.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Forecasting & Operations Integration: Collaborate with operations to provide timely print forecasts by title and account, ensuring accurate print runs for custom orders. Immediately communicate demand opportunities to the operations team and verify product availability before committing to external partners.
• Internal Liaison: Act as the operational bridge between the external client and internal creative/production teams, translating client feedback into actionable tasks.
• Intake Assistance: Support the centralized triage protocol by helping to log, track, and organize inbound partnership and custom product inquiries.

Qualifications & Experience

• 2–4 years of experience in account management, B2B sales support, or publishing operations.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple client accounts and concurrent project lifecycles.
• Strong understanding of client relationship management, forecasting, and cross-functional team coordination.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with a high degree of comfort interfacing directly with external brand partners.
• Highly organized, detail-oriented, and capable of thriving in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
• Comfort building highly visual presentations to showcase custom products, alongside data-driven executive reporting, is a plus.

Travel (20%)

• Attend seasonal in-person account meetings
• Opportunity to attend key trade shows as a company representative
• Seek out and grow trade and presentation opportunities for the company in specified channels.

Please submit a resume and cover letter to be considered.

Compensation: $21.63–$26.44 per hour, depending on experience.

Insight Editions provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

Primary Responsibility: Oversee the acquisition and editorial development of a list of titles based on film and TV properties, and brands across many major entertainment licenses. Reporting to the Publishing Director of Insight Entertainment, this person is responsible for meeting the timelines and budgets established for each title while maximizing all opportunities with existing and new film partners.

What We Are Looking For: Insight Editions is searching for an experienced, enthusiastic, and collaborative book editor that has written or edited for film and/or licensed entertainment companies and adult fiction. At Insight Editions we are enthusiastic about the licensing brands we represent and committed to creating content that connects fans and readers with the most fun and innovative film and pop culture books in the country. In this position you will manage high-volume, high-profile projects with exceedingly high editorial standards and production values throughout the entire editorial process. Additionally, you will assist in acquiring books across multiple formats including “art and making” books, comprehensive, high-end retrospectives, as well as adult fiction, illustrated script books, and others. This role will publish across all the major entertainment brands including Warner Brothers, Star Wars, Sony, and New Regency Films, amongst many others. Experience working in fiction and with film-based content is a plus.

Detailed Responsibilities include but are not limited to: This role requires you to manage multiple deadlines, expectations, and projects while working closely with film studios, agents/artists, and writers to deliver innovative, timely and commercial projects to market. To be successful you must possess a love for film and pop culture. You must be extremely detail-focused and be able to manage ever-changing deadlines and expectations with calm and ease. You will be identifying authors, negotiating work-for-hire contracts, helping acquire assets, and attending and sometimes hosting meetings with studios and licensors. You will be the one establishing the creative vision behind each project and sharing that vision with the author, designer, production editor, and editorial assistant. Being enthusiastic about film books and having extensive contact with agents and authors is necessary.

Key Responsibilities:

• Accountable for organizing workflows and team assignments to make sure we are hitting annual net sales and gross margin targets.
• Will foster a culture of innovation, by executing publishing plans for unique, commercial, and highly engaging books that are delivered on time and on budget.
• Create a positive, supportive, and collaborative working environment that fosters innovation, accountability, and cross-functional team building.
• Work with Publishing Director to manage the pub list so we are tracking WIP schedules that allow us to hit all foreign co-edition and seasonal sales launch milestones that insure we are maximizing global sales opportunities.
• Work closely with authors, editorial, and all creative services teams to ensure manuscripts are delivered as early as possible so we can maximize opportunities to build preorders and supply necessary materials for long-lead media and sales and marketing schedules.
• Support publishing programs outlined in our master licensor agreements, to manage new publishing concepts that are assigned to delight consumers, customers, and partners.
• Participate in marketing, publicity and promotion planning to support material needs that are required to create consumer awareness with the fan base, increase net sales and create brand awareness to drive traffic to retail both online and through brick and mortar.
• Acquire and edit 10-15 projects per year, depending on the extent, while leading, managing, and problem-solving active projects.
• Research industry trends and develop new book concepts and formats.
• When appropriate for the project, work with the collector’s edition team on collectible ideas and maintain clear communication regarding the release dates for all trade editions that coincide with a collector’s package.
• Travel as necessary to build new partnerships with studios, agents, authors, and licensors.
• Develop, manage, and cultivate relationships with agents and authors for hire.
• Partner with design team, provide support and suggestions as needed.
• Create and develop innovative solutions for the prevention or management of schedule delays and budget overruns.
• Consult with sales and marketing, oversee marketing collateral development for all products that you edit, and make sure your list has robust metadata and timely sales materials well before publication date.
• Write sales, marketing, and cover copy.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Solid history of acquiring, championing, and developing successful film and fiction titles from initial concept to finished books
• Exceptional editorial skills
• Deep agency and industry contacts a plus
• Knowledge of and passion for the film industry
• Knowledge of and passion for spinning fiction from established brands
• Ability to prioritize, multi-task, and manage resources across multiple projects
• Initiative-taking, productive, meticulous, with strong organizational skills
• Experience in mentoring and developing editorial talent, prioritizing work and resources, and providing timely and clear critical feedback
• Extensive knowledge of book manufacturing
• Effective presentation skills and communication in both internal and external situations, including corporate leadership, brand partners, internal departments, and in high-pressure situations
• Advanced or Expert proficiency with Adobe Acrobat Professional, MS Office Suite, Google Suite. FileMaker preferred but not required.

Location & Benefits:

• 401(k) savings program
• Employer-paid health insurance
• Vision insurance
• Dental insurance
• Paid sick leave
• Paid vacation time

Please submit a resume and cover letter to be considered.

Compensation: $75,000- $80,000/yr, depending on experience.

Insight Editions provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

Insight Editions seeks an Editorial Assistant or Assistant Editor (dependent on experience) to join a publishing team that is passionate about the licensing brands we represent and committed to creating content that connects fans and readers with the most fun and innovative pop culture books in the country. In this role, you will provide support to the Insight Editions editorial team within the Lifestyle division. This role will work with a variety of publishing formats across multiple brands including Harry Potter, Star Wars, and Disney, as well as many additional licensing partners and individual authors. The role is a great opportunity for a candidate to learn the editorial process for a global publishing company that publishes across many formats. The Assistant will report to the Senior Editor and collaborate closely with creative services team members within a dynamic, fast-paced environment.

Qualifications:

• BA in English or a related field
• 1 to 2 years of editorial experience is a plus, preferably within a publishing environment
• Ability to manage multiple projects and meet tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Strong organizational skills, with high attention to detail
• A passion for books and writing; enthusiasm for pop culture is a plus
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office, Adobe Acrobat, and Microsoft Workspace

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Assist the Senior Editor, Associate Publisher, and editorial team on all aspects of acquisitions and project management of Insight Edition Lifestyle titles, including general administrative duties (emailing updates, following up on deliverables, etc.), brainstorming, research, concept development, creation of pitch materials, writing title outlines, rights and clearance tracking, licensor approval tracking, updating title information, and helping maintain distribution portals.
• Assist in the creation and gathering of information for marketing and sales collateral, including writing sales copy, sell sheets, catalog copy, and compiling sales decks and brochures.
• Interact with a high degree of professionalism with authors, recipe developers, artists, designers, filmmakers, agents, in-house staff across all departments of Insight Editions, and licensors.
• Gather and sort assets for use in sales materials and book layouts and create book maps.
• Search and analyze competitive titles and markets and compile shared reports.
• Assist with ongoing database management projects.
• Take accurate notes in meetings and distribute them to teams.
• Track project development costs and help process invoices for approval.

For Assistant Editor:

• Independently project manage titles from conception to publication, including collaborating with external and internal partners to develop and finalize outlines, art logs and bookmaps, manuscripts, illustrations, photo shoots, covers, interior design, pass pages, and sales and marketing materials. 
• Ideate and brainstorm new project and format ideas with the editorial team.
• Source contributors for projects developed in house.
• Edit manuscripts and provide feedback to the creative team.

Please send a cover letter and your resume to be considered for this position.

This is a full-time remote position located on the East Coast.

Salary: $42,000–$48,000

Insight Editions provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.