Assistant Acquisitions Editor electrical engineering, management

Artech House is an independent nonfiction commercial publisher, with offices in Boston and London, 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 seeks an early career publishing professional to join its Boston office. A wonderful opportunity, with significant growth potential, for someone eager to get started on a career in publishing or for an early career professional seeking to continue to grow into a more advanced role in acquisitions. The role will be filled as an Editorial Assistant or Assistant Acquisitions Editor, depending on experience.

Opportunity will be given to advance/acquire titles in time. The editorial assistant/assistant acquisitions editor will support and train under two senior acquisitions editors (one in London one in Boston).

As part of the Artech House publishing team, the editorial assistant/assistant acquisitions editor will have the opportunity to contribute to some of the most important subject areas in Electrical Engineering and Technology Management. The editorial assistant/assistant acquisitions editor will have opportunity to learn best practices in peer review, manuscript review, copyright, and manuscript development. Preparing, distributing materials for editorial board meetings, and under supervision of lead editors, running transmittal meetings.

The editorial assistant/assistant acquisitions editor focuses on SME/peer review and manuscript development, preparing final manuscripts for transmittal to production and marketing, allowing the acquiring/commissioning editor to focus on recruiting new authors, reviewing, and developing new projects, and preparing proposals for the Artech Editorial Board.

Responsibilities

Prepares materials for editorial board meetings.

Prepares materials for transmittal meetings.

Participates in and contributes to all editorial board meetings.

Communicates diplomatically, respectfully, and enthusiastically with all departments, authors, series editors, and partners to keep projects on track.

Responds to translation inquiries, licensing requests.

Prepares translation contracts.

Prepares author contracts, routing them for signature.

Oversee registration of copyright with the Library of Congress

Has ownership of the final manuscript development process, preparation of final files, for hand off to production.

Qualifications - required

Bachelor’s degree.

A passion for publishing and a love of science

A desire to learn publishing-industry best practices, systems, and cycles.

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

Advanced interpersonal communication and diplomacy skills.

Excellent written and oral communication skills.

Self-starter, innovative, generous, and kind.

Qualifications - preferred

One-to-two years’ experience in publishing.

A bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or related field.

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.

To apply, send your resume and brief cover letter to with “Acquisitions applicant - US” in the subject line.

About Artech House

Artech House has published over 2000 titles since 1969 and built a worldwide reputation by providing quality books and software for practicing engineers, industry managers, and students. We are most well-known for our strong lists in wireless communications, GNSS, electromagnetics, computer security 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®.

We follow a hybrid work schedule, three days in-office, two days remote.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Benefits:

401(k)

401(k) matching

Dental insurance

Health insurance

Flexible spending account

Life insurance

Paid time off

Parental leave