Sr. Acquisitions Editor

Senior Acquisitions Editor

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The Content Team works with talent and tooling to identify, acquire, and develop new content across various modalities at the highest level of quality to ensure the best learning experiences for our audience. The Content Team works cross-departmentally with the production, product, sales, and customer support teams to ensure O'Reilly's mission to "change the world by sharing the knowledge of innovators" is continually met.

The Senior Acquisitions Editor works hand in hand with both existing talent and new talent to grow O'Reilly's online learning platform and print content through careful content acquisitions, project development, and curation. A core responsibility for this role is the ability to identify new talent and expand our network of experts. Talent are subject matter experts who are also well-respected practitioners with a passion for teaching others through writing, speaking, or training. Your responsibilities include identifying market trends and pain points of our customers, and contracting with talent to create content to address these pain points. Formats for content are limitless but currently include live training courses, curriculum, virtual live events, books, assessments, short-form content, on demand courses, certification-related content as well as hands-on labs. You will be familiar with generative AI tooling and comfortable using it as a creative partner and collaborative tool for all aspects of the role listed below. A significant part of your role will include identifying opportunities to co-create new content experiences using GenAI.

What You'll Do

• Build and execute on a multi-modal content strategy including but not limited to text, live courses, labs, assessments, and on demand courses.
• Identify trends, technology developments, and skills gaps in your domain that present opportunities to develop learning content
• Build relationships and sign with talent who are best positioned to shape and create content that addresses the skills gaps
• Collaborate with talent, generative AI tools, and our internal development teams including development editors and instructional designers to craft the content
• Identify and develop new content format experiences using AI tools
• Continuously monitor the performance of your content in the platform and adjust 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.
• 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.

What You'll Have

• 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.

• Salary Range: $110,000 - $135,000
• At this time, O'Reilly Media Inc. is not able to provide visa sponsorship or provide any immigration support (i.e. H-1B, STEM, OPT, CPT, EAD and Permanent Residency process).