Senior Designer, Tor

The Senior Designer will develop and produce compelling cover designs for a variety of fiction genres, working directly with freelance illustrators and designers. This role will be responsible for approximately 10 covers during each of the three seasons yearly. The Senior Designer, will also be responsible for other design assets on occasion, including endpapers, case stamps, and printed edges.

What you'll do:

• Concepting and designing layouts and type treatments for front book covers.
• Creating full jacket layouts and producing print-ready files for production.
• Designing additional assets including endpapers, case stamps, and printed edges.
• Researching and commissioning freelance illustrators and designers

What you'll bring:

• Strong sense of effective book cover design and typeography.
• Experience working with freelance illustrators and designers.
• Solid knowledge of Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator.
• Ability to manage multiple projects with strict deadlines.

Ideal Experience:

• 5 years of book cover design experience.
• Experience preparing files for print production.
• Bachelor's Degree in graphic design (or equivalent working experience)

This role will have an annual salary of $70,000 - $85,000.

Macmillan Publishers is the U.S. trade division of the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group, a large family-owned media company headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany. Its publishing companies include prominent imprints around the world that publish a broad range of award-winning books for children and adults in all categories and formats.

U.S. publishers include Celadon Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Flatiron Books, Henry Holt & Company, Macmillan Audio, Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group, The St. Martin's Publishing Group, and Tor Publishing Group. In the UK, Australia, India, and South Africa, Macmillan publishes under the Pan Macmillan name. The German company, Holtzbrinck Deutsche Buchverlage, includes among its imprints S. Fischer, Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Rowohlt, and Droemer Knaur.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are actively seeking job applicants who reflect a broad representation of differences, including race, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, physical ability, neurodiversity, age, family status, economic background and status, geographical background and status, and perspective. We believe that the best companies reflect the incredible diversity in viewpoints, backgrounds, and identities of the world in their staffs, and are committed to inclusive hiring across departments and levels. The successful candidate for this position will be an employee of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC.