Commissioning Editor - Publishing

Artech House is an independent nonfiction publisher, with offices in London and Boston, delivering highly technical future-facing books for working engineers and scientists, helping them solve the practical problems of today and tomorrow.

The Role:

Artech is seeking a seasoned commissioning editor, publishing professional to join its London office.

As part of the Artech team, you will have the opportunity to manage and contribute to some of the most important subject areas in Electrical Engineering. As commissioning editor, you will be responsible for signing 15 to 20 new titles per year and managing overall list and subject area financial performance.

The role has supervisory responsibilities over one assistant commissioning editor. The assistant commissioning editor focuses on SME/peer review and manuscript development, preparing final manuscripts for transmittal to production and marketing, allowing the commissioning editor to focus on recruiting new authors, reviewing, and developing new projects, and preparing proposals for the Artech Editorial Board. The commissioning editor works collaboratively with series editors, SMEs, and authors around the world and with Artech acquisitions, production, and marketing staff in London and Boston. The commissioning editor is a valued member of the Artech House management team.

Responsibilities:

Commissions 15 to 20 new books per year and ensures titles meet revenue goals.
Champions titles and authors throughout the publishing process, developing a vision for the work under contract, partnering with marketing and production to support them in helping the title realize its full potential.
Monitors trends in Electrical Engineering, especially in the UK and EU, staying abreast of future growth areas of interest (next-gen problems to solve)
Manages the manuscript review and development processes.
Attends scientific meetings, represents Artech at industry conferences.
Contributes to the year-to-year budget to support London/EU commissioning efforts and author recruitment, researching and identifying meetings to attend.
Manages relationships with Series Editors and SMEs, reviewing performances, recruiting new series editors as needed, developing and implementing forward-looking multi-year plans for growing each subject area.

Required Qualifications:

A degree in electrical engineering or a related hard science.
Three years’ experience in publishing, specifically in commissioning.
Demonstrated ability to evaluate potential authors, ideas, and projects, developing them for a specific audience.
Advanced project management skills, working with multiple competing deadlines, tasks, and agendas, moving publishing projects smoothly from start to finish.
Advanced interpersonal communication, relationship management, and diplomacy skills.
Excellent written and oral communication skills; the ability to be persuasive with tact and brevity.
Self-starter, innovative, generous, and kind.

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.

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®.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Benefits:

Company pension
Gym membership
Sick pay

Schedule:

We follow a hybrid work schedule, three days in-office in London (SW1V 4RW), two days remote
Monday to Friday