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Editor (m/f/d)

Permanent employee, Full-time · Cologne HQ, Office Los Angeles
Your tasks
  • Development of new titles and series in the art, design and photography programs
  • Independent, timely project management for multilingual book publications, from
    budgeting and scheduling to printing
  • Close cooperation with authors, translators, freelancers and editorial offices from
    Germany and abroad, as well as international institutions and picture agencies
  • Clarification of image, text and artist and photographer rights as well as image
    procurement
  • Review and editing of texts
  • Internal coordination with graphics, production, press and sales departments
  • Support of the head of editorial with projects and coordination tasks
Your profile
  • Several years of professional experience as an editor in a publishing house
  • Master’s degree in humanities or similar 
  • Excellent communication skills in English and German, as well as good knowledge of
    another language such as French, Spanish or Italian
  • High affinity for texts and stylistic confidence in editing
  • Trained eye for layout design
  • Negotiation skills and confident manner
  • Flexibility and ability to work under pressure   
  • Ability to work in a team and a solutions-based approach
  • International experience with an international mindset
  • Good knowledge of the programs MS Office, Acrobat, InDesign
We offer
  • A creative, international working environment with plenty of scope for independent, autonomous work and for developing and shaping your own ideas
  • A variety of tasks in a committed, dynamic team
  • An open corporate culture with flat hierarchies 
  • Flexible working hours
  • A remuneration according to performance for a position of responsibility
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About us

We are looking for bright, driven and inspiring individuals to join our international team.

TASCHEN is the world’s leading art-book publisher, headquartered in Cologne with teams in Berlin, Brussels, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, Madrid, Miami, Milan, New York, Paris and Tokyo. For more than 40 years, we have been on a mission to publish innovative illustrated books on art, architecture, design, fashion, film, lifestyle, travel, photography and pop culture and to bring them to the world. We aspire to be inclusive, independent, inspirational.

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