Senior Editor, Norton Young Readers

Job Description
W.W. Norton & Company has an opening for a Senior Editor for our Norton Young Readers list. In this role, you will be joining an exciting and growing imprint. Working as a part of a tight-knit team, you will be responsible for acquiring and editing a list of distinctive and varied books and be instrumental in shaping the direction and identity of the imprint.

The Senior Editor will acquire approximately 20 titles per year, with a focus on fiction (both prose and graphic) for middle grade and young adult readers. You will have strong author and agent relationships, a broad understanding of the children's and young adult trade book market, excellent communication skills, and thrive in a collaborative, entrepreneurial environment. This position will report to the Publishing Director for Norton Young Readers.

Essential Job Responsibilities

• Acquire a list of approximately 20 titles per year, with a focus on fiction.
• Edit titles from acquisition through production.
• Attend and contribute to Norton Young Readers editorial and acquisition meetings.
• Present titles at Norton sales, marketing, and other meetings, and at industry conferences and events as required.
• Maintain editorial, production, sales materials, and related schedules and deadlines.

Please note that this job description is not designed to cover all activities required of the employee.

Experience and Skills
Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent.
• Minimum five years of editorial experience in children's and/or young adult trade.
• History of success acquiring and developing prose and graphic fiction.
• Knowledge of contemporary children's and young adult books, authors, artists, and publishing marketplace and trends.
• Strong agent and industry relationships.
• Creative and collaborative, suited to work as part of a small, flexible team.
• Self-directed, independent, and organized: able and willing to prioritize and perform a wide range of tasks at different levels, maintain schedules, and meet deadlines.
• Excellent verbal and written presentation and communication skills.
• Employment eligibility to work with W.W. Norton & Company in the US is required.
• Must be able to work from Norton's New York City Headquarters

Currently available benefits*:

• Annual compensation for this position is between $85,000-$95,000. All salaries and salary ranges posted by Norton may vary depending on experience, skills, location and like considerations. Generous paid time off, paid holidays, and summer Friday afternoons beginning in July
• Generous health benefits, including PPO and EPO medical insurance options, vision insurance, dental insurance, flexible spending accounts for healthcare, dependent care and commuter, gym membership reimbursement, and more. Coverage for spouses, domestic partners, and dependent children is available.
• Profit-Sharing and 401(k) benefit plan with discretionary contribution matching by employer
• Disability and life insurances
• FMLA, parental and other leave
• Employee Assistance Program (for mental health, financial planning, and other needs)
• Company-provided laptop
• Employee discounts on Norton books
• Limited matching of employee donations to select non-profit organizations

*All policies and benefits described are subject to change at any time.

About Norton Young Readers:

Norton Young Readers is a small, highly curated list spanning categories from picture book to young adult, fiction and nonfiction, and prose and graphic formats. Unlike many other similarly sized lists, NYR has a robust supporting structure in W. W. Norton -- a proudly independent (and employee-owned) publisher of serious, stylish, and award-winning books, with its own sales force, and a sterling reputation in the marketplace.

Norton Young Readers published its first list at the end of 2019. Highlights to date include Jarrett and Jerome Pumphrey's widely admired picture book debut, The Old Truck; Free Lunch by Rex Ogle, which won the 2020 YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction; From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry, by Paula Yoo, which won the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Nonfiction and was a longlisted for the National Book Award; Victory. Stand!, a graphic novel memoir by Olympic gold medalist and activist Tommie Smith, which was finalist for the National Book Award, winner of the YALSA Nonfiction Award, and a double Coretta Scott King Award Honor book; Every Night is Pizza Night by bestselling author and chef Kenji Lopez-Alt, and Nicky & Vera by Hans Andersen Award winner Peter Sís.