Overview:
HarperAudio is looking to hire an Executive Producer. We’re a nimble, dynamic team that oversees the production of all HarperCollins North American audiobooks. Spanning a wide range of genres, you’ll get to work with best-selling authors and be a part of an amazing team of audiobook professionals.
A little about you: You love the spoken word both as a creative and as a listener. For you, there’s no greater rush than assembling the perfect team for a project. You’re detailed oriented, an excellent communicator, and great at managing competing deadlines. You get excited about pushing the audiobook format forward.
The job: You will lead a team of producers responsible for creating audiobooks across all the HarperCollins North American imprints. You will look for ways to continue to challenge and grow the team, while producing fiction and non-fiction titles yourself. You will work on single voice narration, multicast productions, author narrations, and more. You will manage relationships with various outside producers and work closely with the print publishing teams.
Responsibilities:
- Leads a team of 7 producers providing coaching and growth opportunities.
- Ensures that audiobook production runs on schedule and within budget, troubleshooting any problems that may arise and working closely with the in-house production team to create solutions.
- Ensures audiobook productions maintain a high level of quality.
- Works alongside Associate Publisher on larger departmental goals and projects.
- Hires and manages all production resources and outside contractors. Depending on the project this can include narrators, producers, directors, studios, etc. This also includes negotiating deal terms.
- Develops casting lists for assigned titles and works with the other producers to expand our talent pool.
- Ensures all audiobook programs maintain a high level of production quality.
- Addressing textual and editorial issues with imprint team and/or author
- Cultivates relationships with editors, authors, and agents.
- Manages other misc. aspects of production.
- Directs select titles as needed.
Qualifications:
- Minimum 5 years of audiobook publishing experience
- Minimum 2 years of experience managing a team
- Extremely detail-oriented and well-organized, with strong project management skills
- Ability to set priorities and problem solve under pressure
- Excellent communication skills
- Comfortable providing feedback to team members
- Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite, skilled at Excel
- Negotiation skills a plus
- Conversational, or fluent, in Spanish is a plus
HarperCollins Publishers is a company full of people who are passionate about books. When you apply for a position, we want to know why you want to work here, and why you are interested in the job. That’s why cover letters are strongly preferred.
The salary range for this position is $95,000-$105,000. We recognize that attracting the best talent is key to our strategy and success as a company. As a result, we aim for flexibility in structuring competitive compensation offers to ensure we are able to attract the best candidates. The quoted salary range represents our good faith estimate as to what our ideal candidates are likely to expect, and we tailor our offers within the range based on the selected candidate's experience, industry knowledge, technical and communication skills, and other factors that may prove relevant during the interview process.
In addition to cash compensation, the company provides a comprehensive and highly competitive benefits package, with a variety of physical health, retirement and savings, caregiving, emotional wellbeing, transportation, and other benefits, including "elective" benefits employees may select to best fit the needs and personal situations of our diverse workforce.
HarperCollins Publishers is an equal opportunity employer.
