At the heart of DragonEye Publishing House, our Corporate team brings our many offices into alignment under a unified strategic vision. Team members work behind the scenes to ensure smooth operations and consistent excellence at all customer touchpoints. Opportunities may include positions in Corporate Communications, Digital/eCommerce, Finance, HR, IT, Marketing, Merchandising, DragonEye Publishing, and Store Operations.  If you are interested in working with a collaborative innovative team, we’re always seeking progressive, dynamic talent.

 

 

Publisher

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  The publisher is the acknowledged strategic leader of the house, setting the vision and tone for the publishing house or imprint, and overseeing the entire operation to the publication of a list of titles from acquisition and through sales.

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Editorial Department

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   The book publisher’s editors perform all the duties necessary to acquire and edit books, and see them through to publication, including dealing with literary agents, authors, and interfacing with the breadth of the book publisher's other staff members. 

 

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Contracts & Legal Department

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   Book publishing is a business of intellectual property. The individual author’s contracts are a critical, legal element in the publishing process and, therefore, the contracts department is key, working with the editors and literary agents to negotiate the terms. In addition, since there are liabilities attached to writing about many subjects—such as celebrity tell-alls—the legal department ensures that the publishing house is protected against potential lawsuits that might arise from sensitive material.

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Managing Editorial and Production

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   The managing editor, and his or her staff, are responsible for the workflow of the manuscript and artwork from editorial through production. Managing editorial works, both the editors and production keep a close eye on the schedule for not only the finished book product, but for advanced materials such as Advance Reading Copies (ARCs) that sales or publicity might need in order to generate interest in the books from booksellers or the media.

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Creative Department

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    The jacket art department is critical to the book publishing process, because the art director, and his or her staff of designers, create the cover that, along with the book’s title, forms the first, important consumer impression of the book. In other words, they create the cover by which the book is indeed judged. Generally speaking, different designers create the book interiors. The promotion art department is responsible for designing the seasonal publisher catalogs, book marketing campaigns, and other materials.

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Sales

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   The various sales departments are, of course, critical to getting books to market and into other formats and media.

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Subsidiary Rights

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    The "sub rights" department sells the contractual rights to use the content of books in a variety of forms, from foreign translations to motion pictures. 

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Marketing, Promotion, and Advertising

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   The marketing department is responsible for marketing strategy for the individual books, as well as coordinating the efforts of the promotion art department, which is generally responsible for the design and production of marketing materials.

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    The marketing department also works close with advertising (either in-house or with an ad agency) to create ads, as dictated by budget and strategy, for individual or lists of titles. Social media marketing efforts sometimes fall under title marketing, and sometimes, in a more general online marketing department. Read more about ​the specific responsibilities of the book marketing department. 

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Publicity

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    The publicity department is responsible for reaching out to the media (print, radio, television, etc.) to gain exposure for individual titles. For most publishing houses, setting up book signings and book tours also falls to the publicity department. Outreach to bloggers sometimes falls under publicity, sometimes under marketing. 

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Publisher Website Maintenance

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    Each publishing house and/or imprint maintains its own website with booklists, author information, etc.

(Other sites maintained for promotional purposes, such as individual author sites generally fall wholly under “marketing," though note that most author websites are developed and maintained by the author).​

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   In addition to book-centric functions, publishing houses share the same sorts of departments as any large business entity, such as:

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Finance and Accounting

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   Each book has its own P&L (profit and loss statement), and the finance department monitors this, as well as expenses, etc.

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IT (Information Technology)

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   In today’s offices, the tech guys are indispensable, and it's no different in a publishing house.

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Human Resources

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  The HR department assists with the recruitment and hiring of talent, as well as benefits, and other issues pertaining to the employees of the publishing house.

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On-Line Bookstore and In House bookstore

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     This is where customers come to buy our Books / Ebooks, and where we offer our books / ebooks at below main chain booksellers, and online sellers price, to receive customers interactions directly with us.

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Printing

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   The Printing and Binding of Books (Paperback / Hardcover).

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Warehouse

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   Where books are stored in inventory, waiting for booksellers / Wholesalers / Distributors to order, and from Customers and from Authors' ordering for their own sales.

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Positions Coming Soon

Art Director (Cover Graphic Artist)

Author Liaison (Works with Author and Communicates the process of their Book Process during Setup)

Book Block (Interior Layout Designer)

Book Cover (Layout on cover template for the book size)

Book Sales Manager

Customer Service / Fraud Analyst 

Digital / Print Merchandiser

Director of Investigations

Director, Human Resources

Finance / Accounting / Sales Audit / Invoice / Payroll / Author Royalty

HR Business Partner, IT/Finance

Human Resources

Internal Auditor

Manager, Consumer Insights

Manager, Online Store Operations & Analytics

Manager, Store Systems Engineer

Sales Reps (Book sellers that goes to bookstores and Non- Bookstores to get books on to shelf)

Regional Business Development Manager

Retail Communications Specialist

Wholesaler / Distributor account setup Reps.

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