Associate Audio Publisher

Job Description: Associate Audio Publisher

We’re looking for an Associate Audio Publisher to join our growing Echo Point audio team. An ideal candidate will be skilled at making ad hoc contributions and have a high level of integrity and self -awareness – publishing is a people-driven industry and we pride ourselves on our reputation.

Roles and responsibilities include:

• Identifying and evaluating prospective titles for the Echo Point catalogue
• Outreach to authors, publishers, and literary agents to negotiate rights acquisition
• Narrator outreach and recruitment for specific projects
• Quality Control, facilitation of sound proofing
• Working with distribution partners and monitoring live titles’ performance/feedback

Required Qualifications:

● Great fit with our team and a love of fine arts!

● Self-starter with an ability to identify areas to contribute

● Niche expertise/interests – many of the titles Echo Point publishes are on topics one or more members of our team are passionate about

● Excellent research ability – we spend meaningful time assessing the viability of projects, tracking down rightsholders, evaluating them and the content of their work

● Outside-the-box problem solver – as an example, some of our most popular titles involve working complex text into audio format or are licensed from strongly opinionated authors

● Strong written and verbal communication skills

● Highly organized – this role requires shepherding multiple projects through the acquisition, production, and post-production stages

● A good ‘ear’

Preferred Qualifications:

● Publishing or dramatic arts experience

● Proficiency in audio recording and sound engineering processes, experience with ACX standards is an additional plus

About Echo Point

Echo Point is one of the country’s largest online booksellers and (truly) independent publishers. We began as an environmentally focused partner to some of the largest print publishers in the world, helping to get their damaged inventory into readers’ hands rather than landfills. As a publisher ourselves, our approach is the same as a traditional publisher save for three crucial differences: we pay higher royalty rates, we rarely publish previously unpublished work, and we specialize in breathing fresh life into titles that have a timeless appeal; books under -appreciated or abandoned by larger houses but which still resonate with contemporary audiences.

Echo Point’s audio publishing division is the newest and fastest growing part of the company, begun in 2018 and nearly doubling in size every year since. Today we have a diverse catalogue of hundreds of audiobooks on topics ranging from social and racial justice, to psychology and self- improvement, to nutrition and exercise. What many of our most successful titles share in common is not being recognized as a “good” candidate for an audio edition by traditional publishers, and we’re proud to provide them a home here at Echo Point.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $60,000.00 - $70,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Employee discount
• Flexible schedule

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Work Location: Remote