Manage editorial team day-to-day operations inline with production goals, schedules, and budgets. Lead onboarding, training, management, mentoring, and development of editorial teams. Build a network and establish collaborative partnerships with a creative freelance network. Work from strategic plans to establish editorial production direction for book development projects. Own and lead numerous book development lifecycles, partnering cross-organizationally to achieve strategy and cycle time goals. Work with editors developing and finalizing manuscripts, from substantive structural feedback to line edits. Define, develop, and align editorial teams with cross-functional standard operating practices. Establish and administer content style, tone, and editorial direction, managing editors to required standards. Apply critical thinking to identify strategic and tactical issues and establish prioritization and focus for editorial teams. Apply project management techniques in the planning and allocation of resources against activities and schedules.

Develop and project manage upwards of 20 books in the activities and interests portfolio (cookbooks, fitness, crafts/hobbies/home) per year from concept to completion. Follow a data-driven process to identify market opportunity and develop books to satisfy the needs of the consumer. Develop new projects and work with authors on shaping and developing material. Collaborate with editorial, design, production, and marketing departments on schedule, format, and aesthetics of publication. Oversee the day-to-day development and production of multiple books and ensure projects stay on time and within budget.