Publishing Job Opening – [UK/Europe, Remote] Publishing Marketing and Administrative Assistant

Exisle Publishing is seeking a UK or Europe-based marketing and administrative assistant for a flexible, remote, work-from-home position. We will consider both full-time and part-time candidates with salary depending on availability and experience.

As a small, independent publisher, yet nonetheless one with a large backlist and global reach, we all wear multiple hats. Your role will evolve and grow over time and will be focused primarily on ensuring the discoverability of our titles in various markets, with exposure to the editorial, marketing, and operational sides of our business.

This is an opportunity to get broad experience across multiple facets of the publishing industry, work closely with authors, editors, and publicists, and be part of a passionate, global team.

Duties will include, and not be limited to:

  • Metadata administration: Working with our internal and partner systems to update, improve, and troubleshoot metadata for new and backlist titles
  • Maintaining our foreign rights database, supplying materials to client publishers and agents, and keeping this organized 
  • Update and maintain catalogues; this does not require advanced design expertise, but some experience with tools like Canva or InDesign would be a plus
  • Updating and maintaining sales materials for new titles in our internal systems, including Advanced Information Sheets and Trade Information Sheets
  • Assisting authors with their questions and ensuring they have the knowledge and assets needed to sell their title
  • Overseeing and ensuring the quality of listings of our books at various global online marketplaces including but not limited to Amazon
  • Assisting with ad-hoc reporting needs to analyze sales and understand the performance of titles
  • Reading and having a voice in the selection of new titles and helping to maintain order in our busy submissions inboxes 
  • Occasional website updates; We use WordPress, we can train you to use this simple tool, but if you have experience that helps
  • Social media: Social media is not a major focus of ours, but our profiles need to be kept lively and engaged with the actions of our authors
  • Misc tasks related to supporting the growth and smooth operations of the Children’s Publishing Academy, the educational arm of EK Books

You will be working across non-fiction, children’s picture books, and the Children’s Publishing Academy.

Thank you for a large number of very promising applicants. We are working hard to respond to all candidates, thank you for your patience. We will pause applications for now while we assess the current candidates batch.