Production Editor

• Ensure the quality and timeliness of SAGE digital, online, and print content.
• Work with authors, acquisitions editors, permission editors, designers, marketing staff, vendors, production operations staff, developers, and freelance copy editors, typesetters, proofreaders, and indexers to produce digital and print projects on time and within budget.
• Manage multiple projects with competing priorities, following the department workflow processes detailed in the PE Manual.
• Solve problems proactively before they can affect the production schedule.
• Communicate professionally with authors, in-house colleagues, and out-of-house vendors, representing SAGE’s values of integrity, respect, and collegiality.
• Maintain and update internal databases so that each project’s schedule is accurate and realistic.
• Help train freelance and vendor resources.
• Serve as the author’s primary liaison during the production process.
• Communicate to relevant managers and departments any changes in project status.

• Excellent skills in grammar, punctuation, and style
• Computer skills, with a proficiency in Microsoft Word and Adobe Acrobat
• Familiarity with APA and Chicago editorial styles
• Book/digital publishing experience
• Maintain confidentiality and work with diplomacy
• Reason and solve problems
• Communicate effectively verbally and also in writing
• Work productively with constant interruptions
• Multitask
• Manage projects effectively
• Communicate effectively internally and externally, including effective and cordial communications with other departments, with authors, and with customers
• Effectively manage vendor, freelance, or consulting relationships
• Meet deadlines and work professionally under pressure
• Make effective and well-reasoned decisions

SAGE Publishing is committed to being an inclusive employer where all individuals are treated with fairness and respect, regardless of age, disability, gender identity, marriage and partnership status, pregnancy and parental responsibilities, race, religion and belief, sex, or sexual orientation.

We believe that diversity is a cornerstone of a vibrant culture. We want SAGE to be an organization where the most talented staff and high-potential staff are recruited, have the opportunity to grow, and want to work. We strive to achieve a better representation of diverse talent at all levels, including leadership, across our workforce.