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O'Reilly · 1 day ago

Sr. Acquisitions Editor

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$110K/yr - $135K/yr

8+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Build and execute on a multi-modal content strategy including but not limited to text, live courses, labs, assessments, and on demand courses. Your core responsibilities include:

Identifying trends, technology developments, and skills gaps in your domain that present opportunities to develop learning content

Building relationships and signing with talent who are best positioned to shape and create content that addresses the skills gaps

Collaborating with talent, GenAI, and our internal development teams including development editors and instructional designers to craft the content

Identifying and developing new content format experiences using GenAI

Continuously monitoring the performance of your content in the platform and adjusting your strategy as necessary

Work closely with various internal departments; editorial, platform, and production staff; and externally, with talent

Demonstrate effective project management of multiple titles/projects and ensure that all projects release on time and within budget

Use Generative AI Tooling as needed to assist with your role

Identify problem areas in content and create solutions

Identify new talent best suited to create content for our interactive and structured learning programs

Become intimately familiar with content in the learning platform for your domain inclusive of our trusted partners’ content

Work to understand the enterprise learning and training needs of our platform users

Serve as an internal subject matter expert for the domain you manage

Attend industry events where appropriate and at the discretion of your manager

Support sales and marketing with detailed content information during the marketing and sales processes

Qualification

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Editorial experienceContent developmentGenerative AI toolingRelationship managementLearning content creationProject managementWork on deadlinesContinuous learner

Required

Bachelor's degree in English, communications, computer science, education, or other relevant field

In lieu of degree, equivalent education and/or experience may be considered

8-10 years editorial or education experience with a demonstrated increase in responsibilities

Proficiency with LLMs as a means of brainstorming and building prototypes.

A strong interest in building learning content and training materials, partnering with colleagues and generative AI tools as needed, in a variety of formats including text, video, audio, and online training courses

Extraordinary relationship management skills

Strong project management skills

Strong written, presentation, and verbal communication skills

Ability to work on tight deadlines

Ability to effectively communicate with customers, talent, product, design, production, sales and content colleagues

Ability to maintain high professional standards in interacting with others—inside and outside of the company—at all times

Ability to execute on a content strategy through collaboration and a willingness to learn the subject area is essential to your success.

You are a continuous learner, self-starter, and problem solver with an interest to grow your skills as an acquisitions editor and content developer