Publisher, Melbourne/Sydney

Hardie Grant Books

About us

Join the publishing team at Hardie Grant Books, one of Australia’s leading independent publishing companies with offices in Melbourne, Sydney, London and San Francisco. We are a multiple award-winning publisher of narrative and illustrated non-fiction. Hardie Grant is committed to creating a diverse, inclusive and equitable workplace. We support flexible working and applicants from diverse backgrounds are strongly encouraged to apply, including people who identify as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds and people with a disability.

The role

We are looking for a publisher to join us to build our successful narrative non-fiction list.

Hardie Grant Books has a reputation for originality and innovation, and the successful candidate will strive to create market-leading, commercial books that tell stories, engage readers and set and reflect global issues and trends.

As publisher you will be responsible for commissioning a broad list of titles across memoir, current affairs, history, politics, biography, and narrative non-fiction, and will be comfortable working with both established names as well as first-time authors and emerging talents.

The successful candidate will be a natural at author management as well as selling their books within the business and to the book trade. You’ll also enjoy working with our editorial, design and production departments to bring the book from idea to finished copy.

Most importantly you will have a natural flair for discovering stories and working closely with authors to create original, successful and thought-provoking books.

The successful candidate will have experience in publishing (book publishing preferred but not essential), confident in editorial, will be a great communicator and have experience with the written word in some form.

Reporting to the managing director, the position is based in Melbourne, and will work with a wider team of publishers, commissioners and editors.

Requirements

The ideal candidate will have:

• Impeccable organisational and editorial skills
• Good creative judgement
• The drive to maintain high editorial standards and work well within a team
• You will love words but equally be excited by innovative design
• Experience working in books is preferred but not essential

Please send your application to applications@hardiegrant.com by Friday 2^nd June with a cover letter and full CV.

Applications without a cover letter and CV will not be considered.

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