Careers at Phaidon

The Phaidon family of companies — Phaidon, The Monacelli Press, and Artspace — are devoted to celebrating and showcasing the creative arts through our growing publishing programs and e-commerce marketplace platforms. In each of our companies, we offer career opportunities to curious, creative, and independent individuals who share our passion for art, design, architecture, and popular culture.

Phaidon is the premier global publisher of the creative arts with over 1,500 titles in print. We work with the world's most influential artists, chefs, writers, and thinkers to produce innovative books on art, photography, design, architecture, fashion, food, and travel, and illustrated books for children. Phaidon is headquartered in New York and London, with offices in Paris and Berlin. Phaidon books are sold in a wide variety of sales channels, bookstores, and specialty shops, retail and online around the world.

The Monacelli Press, a leading publisher of illustrated books for twenty-five years, challenges the conventions of publishing to produce some of the most provocative, inspiring, and essential titles on architecture, visual art, interior design, landscape architecture, and photography. A separate imprint, Monacelli Studio, was founded in 2015 and focuses on the applied arts, adding art instruction, photography technique, and crafts to the publisher's growing list of books. In 2020, Monacelli joined the Phaidon family of companies.

Project Editor, Architecture & Design (New York or London)

A vacancy has arisen in either our New York or London offices for an editor to project manage titles on Phaidon’s Architecture and Design list. Working closely with the Publisher and Commissioning Editors, the Project Editor will be involved in all aspects of book creation, from the early stages of commissioning through to hand-over to production. This will include assessing texts, editing, picture management, managing budgets and schedules, as well as supervising proofreaders and outside editors. The Project Editor will liaise extensively with photographers, freelance and consultant editors, authors, picture researchers, graphic designers and Phaidon's production team.

Substantial project-management experience in illustrated book publishing (including content development and research, editing, budget management, and InDesign skills) is essential, along with a dedication to excellence and accuracy, and a talent for building strong relationships with authors and freelancers. The successful candidate will also have a demonstrable knowledge of and passion for the subject.

While previous experience of publishing or a related industry would be valuable, we invite applications from talented individuals with as broad a base of backgrounds and experience as possible and we would particularly welcome applications from candidates from currently under-represented groups in book publishing.

When applying, please include details of any specialist skills or subject knowledge you may have. Shortlisted applicants will be invited to attend an interview and asked to complete an editorial test, which can be done at home.

To apply, please send a full CV and covering letter to careers@phaidon.com

All applicants must have the right to live and work in the UK or US, depending on the location they are applying for – please ensure to specify the location in the application.

Salary range (dependent on experience): US$45,000 – US$55,000

Closing date: 17 May 2024

Project Editor, Art (New York or London)

A vacancy has arisen in either our New York or London offices for an editor to project manage titles on Phaidon’s Art list. Working closely with the Publisher and Commissioning Editors, the Project Editor will be involved in all aspects of book creation, from the early stages of commissioning through to hand-over to production. This will include assessing texts, editing, picture management, managing budgets and schedules, as well as supervising proofreaders and outside editors. The Project Editor will liaise extensively with photographers, freelance and consultant editors, authors, picture researchers, graphic designers and Phaidon's production team.

To apply, please send a full CV and covering letter to careers@phaidon.com

All applicants must have the right to live and work in the UK or US, depending on the location they are applying for – please ensure to specify the location in the application.

Salary range (dependent on experience): US$45,000 – US$55,000

Closing date: 17 May 2024

Assistant Editor, Children’s Books (New York or London)

An exciting job opportunity has arisen in either our London or New York offices for a highly creative, experienced Children’s Book Assistant Editor. The successful candidate will work closely with the Children’s Book Senior Editor and Associate Publisher to create unique and inspiring titles for the children’s list and will be involved in all aspects of book creation, from pre-acquisitions through to publication. The Assistant Editor will work internally with editorial, design, production, sales, marketing, and publicity colleagues, as well as externally with freelancers, foreign publishers, agents, authors, and illustrators. The successful candidate will be extremely organized, be able to manage schedules and projects, have a keen eye for detail, the ability to multi-task, as well as have specific knowledge of and passion for children’s books. They will also have expert writing and oral communication skills and be extremely collaborative. A more detailed job description is available here.

Shortlisted applicants will be invited to attend a series of interviews and asked to complete an editorial test.

To apply, please email a full CV and covering letter to careers@phaidon.com

All applicants must have the right to live and work in the UK or US, depending on the location they are applying for – please ensure to specify the location in the application.

Closing date: 17 May 2024

Managing Editor, Monacelli (New York)

Monacelli is looking to hire an experienced, full time Managing Editor, based in our New York office. This new role will be responsible for helping our team of editors—six and growing—maintain schedules and budgets, helping deliver between eighteen and twenty-five illustrated books per season to the printer, and more.

Reporting directly to the Publisher, the position requires working closely with the Publisher and Production Director to:

Understand the unique complexities of each project
Attend weekly editorial progress meeting to discuss project status
Meet individually with editors as needed
Monitor projects throughout the season to spot and resolve problems as soon as possible, keeping the Publisher informed
Assist editors as needed with hiring copy editors and proofreaders from our stable of freelancers
Maintain/update a weekly progress report on the current season’s titles
Help manage the twice-yearly catalogue process and editors’ compilation of assets for catalogue
Manage the compilation of assets and metadata for release to ONIX, working with our existing digital and operations team.

Additionally, the crucial role helps establish and foster a highly collaborative and creative workplace culture, mentors and supports talent from the most inexperienced to senior levels, and helps track the books to completion. The successful candidate will also help oversee the reprint process, imprint page checks, and the publication of books into new formats and bindings.

Substantial and proven complex project-management experience is essential, along with first-class communication skills, a dedication to excellence and accuracy, the ability to work calmly under pressure, and a talent for building strong relationships with others. The successful candidate will also have a demonstrable knowledge of and passion for the subjects covered by our list. We are looking to work with talented people based on their abilities and we would particularly welcome applications from candidates from currently under-represented groups in book publishing.

This full-time position is based in our New York office, where we currently maintain a hybrid schedule of three days per week in office—Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays—and work from home Mondays and Fridays, with occasional need to be in the office those days as well.

To apply, please send a current CV and cover letter to careers@phaidon.com with the subject header: "Managing Editor Monacelli."

Salary range (dependent on experience): $65,000 to $80,000

Closing date: May 31, 2024