Lektor/Editor m/w/d

at  Bookouture

EDITOR (UK/Germany based)

• £30,000-£40,000 dependent on experience and location (+bonus benefits)
• Bristol, Edinburgh, London, Manchester, Newcastle, Sheffield
• Permanent
• 24 March 2024

Who we are and what we do Bookouture is the UK’s fastest growing digital publisher of commercial fiction, and part of Hachette UK. We are only eleven years old, but we have grown rapidly every year and have now sold over 72 million books to readers worldwide. To support this incredible rate of growth, in 2021 we established a fledgling German arm of our business – Bookouture Deutschland – translating and publishing of some of our bestselling fiction direct to readers in the German market. Two-and-a-half years later we have published more than 140 titles and our German publishing is one of the fastest-growing and most successful areas of the business.
We are now looking for the most exciting talent to join our existing team of three and help scale up and maintain the business. In the role of Editor you will be working with the team to identify the highest potential titles in the future schedule, and manage the editorial process from translation to publication. You will have a commercial and analytical overview of the Bookouture Deutschland list and the vision to develop this and use sales data to identify areas for future improvement.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

You will be an expert publishing all-rounder, commercially driven and data competent, with some key skills:

• A native German speaker and fluent in the English language
• Commercial fiction publishing experience, with some knowledge of the digital landscape preferred
• At ease with handling and analysing data and its use to inform publishing decisions
• Confident in market knowledge to pick future titles from existing content pool and working with the team to plan the ongoing publishing schedule
• An excellent copywriter, able to transcreate (i.e. not simply and literally translate) titles, retailer descriptions and marketing material to optimise their appeal to German readers
• Able to work closely with designers on covers
• Experienced in your understanding of metadata, keywords and sub-categories that will optimise visibility in the German market
• Someone with contacts and vision in the publicity and blogging communities in Germany will be a bonus
• Able to juggle multiple tasks, prioritise and handle a large workload with ease, and manage a growing publishing schedule
• Excellent at author communication
• Someone who embraces growth mindset and owner mentality
• You may be a resident of Germany or the UK