Hiring for Associate Publishing Product
- Packt Publishing
- 3 to 8 Yrs
- Mumbai
- 2 years ago
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Job Description
Job Description:
Associate Publishing Product Managers work with developer communities to design, create, and manage a portfolio of books created for new and emerging topic areas. They work with a team of publishing professionals to develop titles that will be first to market, and number one in their technical category area by engaging expert authors and publishing high-quality books that lead in their field. As the owner of a book, the Product Manager is responsible for conducting customer and market analysis, developing propositions with developer communities, pricing titles, writing requirements, and launching products to the market. Moreover, Product Managers are responsible for defining the product vision and strategy for key developer markets. The Product Manager builds key relationships with professional developers across the globe and builds on those relationships to sign the most important new titles. They play a key leadership role by working with a team of publishing professionals who are dedicated to realizing the title vision into reality. The Product Manager is the vision holder, creator, and driver of the Explorer strategy, working alongside their Portfolio Director. They build a high literacy of their competitive market, and the latest trends in the topics they focus on. Product managers take full responsibility and measure themselves in terms of the success of the product.
Requirements
Responsibilities
- Conducting market and customer research in their respective topic area.
- Engage with developer communities and recruit authors to create books.
- Mentoring potential authors in the preparation of proposals and plans.
- Negotiation of contract terms, royalties and advance payments.
- Day-to-day contact with other members of the team including content editors, marketing, and
production.
- Design and implement key processes around launch and marketing.
- Managing issues concerning authors, content, and schedule.
- Own the development and validation of the core proposition and product information
- Monitor and counteract the activities of rival publishers within a given market
- Provide consultancy for topic-related issues on titles in the pipeline
- Participate in DEVCON, TECHCON, and other editorial meetings where required
- Sign off on titles during pre-publication stages.
- Monitor the performance of published titles and use this to inform our commissioning process
Competencies
- Analytical thinker with the ability to identify new technologies and opportunities with a consumer-driven focus
- Investigate who uses technology, their main tasks, and the challenges they face to establish and explain the target audience and vision for the book
- Able to use analysis and combine broader trends and insights to construct a valid commercial the case for a product
- Excellent written and verbal communication with proficiency in the English language is a key tool for this role.
KPIs
Responsibility and Target:
- Commercial Performance: Deliver 2,000 90 Day SUM RPT per publication the month of titles managed
- Proposition Development: Excellent evaluation of 360 discussions with TT members.
- Title Quality: Average star rating of 4*> on published products
- Author Contracting: Contract 2 Books per month
- First to Market / Explorer: Ensure that at least 1/3 of your published portfolio is focused on new and emerging technologies.
Benefits
You will also have access to a range of flexible benefits that are designed to help you make the most of your time with us.
Bonus scheme
21 days holiday (plus bank holidays)
5 days working
Permanent work from home
Pension contribution
Flexible hours: choose how, when and where you work
Employement Category:
Employement Type: Full timeIndustry: E-Learning
Role Category: Product Management
Functional Area: Not Applicable
Role/Responsibilies: Hiring for Associate Publishing Product
Contact Details:
Company: Packt PublishingLocation(s): Mumbai
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Founded in 2004 in Birmingham, UK, Packts mission is to help the world put software to work in new ways, through the delivery of effective learning and information services to IT professionals.Working towards that vision, we have published nearly 4000 books and videos so far, providing IT professio...
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