Acquisition Editor - electrical engineering, management Job at Artech House, Norwood, MA

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  • Artech House
  • Norwood, MA

Job Description

Artech House is an engineering book publisher, with offices in London and Boston, delivering highly technical longform content for working electrical engineers, entrepreneurs, and scientists, helping them move the world forward, solving practical problems of today and tomorrow.

The Role:

Artech House seeks a seasoned publishing professional to join its Boston staff as Acquisitions Editor. The Acquisitions Editor will have the opportunity to manage and contribute to some of the most important subject areas in electrical engineering. Some of our most significant areas are mobile communications, power engineering, RF/MW engineering, antenna and propagation, and cyber security.

Responsible for signing 15 to 20 new titles per year, the Acquisitions Editor works collaboratively with series editors, technical experts, and authors around the world and with Artech acquisitions, production, and marketing staff in London and Boston.

The role will have supervisory responsibilities over one assistant editor. The assistant editor focuses on subject matter expert, technical review and manuscript development, preparing final manuscripts for transmittal to production and marketing, allowing the acquisitions editor to focus on recruiting new authors, reviewing, and developing new projects, and preparing proposals for the Artech House Editorial Board.

Responsibilities:

· Commissions 15 to 20 new books per year, with forecasts sufficient to meet revenue goals.

· Collaborates with acquisition colleagues, series editors, and leading experts to refine ongoing commissioning strategy, year over year, performing market research, monitoring sales, suggesting new projects.

· Monitors trends in electronics, especially in the US, staying abreast of future growth areas of interest (next-gen problems to solve)

· Manages the manuscript review and development processes.

· Owns project schedules and follow up with authors, from proposal to hand off to production.

· Handles all author inquiries and prospective author contact.

· Attends scientific meetings, represents Artech at industry conferences.

· Visits universities, engineering schools, and centers of excellence.

· Helps to create the annual acquisitions budget.

· Manages relationships with Series Editors and reviewing their performance.

Required Qualifications:

· Bachelors’ Degree

· At least two years’ acquisitions experience, signing authors, developing projects.

· Demonstrated ability to evaluate potential authors, ideas, trends, and projects, and develop them for a specific audience.

· Advanced project management skills, working with multiple competing deadlines, tasks, and agendas, moving publishing projects smoothly from start to finish.

Preferred Qualifications:

· Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering.

· Three-to-five years’ experience acquiring books.

At Artech House, we value people of all backgrounds and perspectives, and we believe that anyone can be a game-changing player for us and our authors. If you are passionate about helping engineers move the world forward and solve the practical problems of today and tomorrow, we encourage you to apply – even if you are not a perfect match for the qualifications listed above.

About Artech House

Artech House has published over 2,000 titles since 1969 and built a worldwide reputation by providing quality books, video, online materials, and software – solving problems for working engineers, managers, and students. We are most well-known for strong lists in wireless communications, GNSS, electromagnetics, computer security, national defense, and power engineering. Although a good percentage of our authors are academics the focus is always on the professional market first and the academic second. Artech House is a subsidiary of Horizon House Publications, Inc., publisher of the internationally acclaimed magazine, Microwave Journal®.

Benefits:

  • 401(k)
  • 401(k) matching
  • Dental insurance
  • Flexible spending account
  • Health insurance
  • Life insurance
  • Paid time off
  • Parental leave

Reply to editor@artechhouse.com

Job Tags

Contract work, Trial period, Flexible hours,

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