Job Description

Company: Harlequin Enterprises

Date: March 27, 2026

Job Title: Associate Editor, Harlequin Intrigue

Department: Harlequin Brand Group (Editorial)

Reporting To: Senior Editor, Harlequin Intrigue

Status: Regular Full Time

Location: 195 Broadway, New York, NY (Hybrid)

We celebrate and support the differences that make each of us unique, striving to create a welcoming workplace that ensures everyone has a voice and are able to do their best work. We welcome all applicants, including those who identify with groups that are traditionally underrepresented in the publishing industry including, but not limited to, Black, Indigenous, and people of colour, and members of the LGBTQIA2S+ community, and persons with disabilities.

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The Associate Editor is accountable for soliciting, acquiring and developing authors and books for the Harlequin Intrigue publishing program. The primary purpose of the position is to ensure the ongoing and timely supply of high quality, saleable titles for the list.

Responsibilities

• Acquires manuscripts with the correct editorial fit and highest editorial quality for the publishing strategy.
• Works closely with authors on editorial development, including evaluating and advising on proposals, providing revisions to authors and line editing. Oversees copy editing and author approval/ alterations.
• Reads submissions (solicited and unsolicited where applicable), replies to authors/agents, presents projects, negotiates contracts and monitors payments to authors. Develops new authors to publication standard.
• Provides editorial input into packaging design to ensure key selling features are reflected in the book package. Works with the Marketing and Art teams on design recommendations.
• Writes and reviews back cover copy to deliver the most saleable package.
• Provides assistance to team as needed, to back imprint strategy and growth.
• Represents the program/company at both internal and external conferences.
• Fosters current agent contacts and develops relationships with new agents.
• Project management of specific initiatives, including trend-inspired IP projects, as directed.

Qualifications

Specific training or job experience required includes:

• An undergraduate degree
• 3-5 years of experience in publishing, including acquisitions experience
• Strong communication, writing, and editorial skills
• Strong project management, planning, organizational, teamwork, and problem-solving skills
• Creativity, decisiveness, functional/technical knowledge, computer knowledge, adaptability/flexibility, customer orientation and a drive for results
• The ability to manage execution, to prioritize, and to pay close attention to detail
• High level of creativity/innovation, functional/technical knowledge
• Enthusiasm for mystery, suspense and romance a plus!

About Harlequin

Harlequin is a leading publisher of commercial fiction and narrative nonfiction. We publish more than 100 titles a month that reach audiences globally. Encompassing highly recognizable imprints that span a broad number of genres, we are home to many award-winning New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling authors. Harlequin is a division of HarperCollins Publishers, the second-largest consumer book publisher in the world. Through HarperCollins’s global publishing program, Harlequin titles are published in 17 countries and 16 languages.

HarperCollins Publishers is a company full of people who are passionate about books. When you apply for a position, we want to know why you want to work here, and why you are interested in the job. That’s why cover letters are strongly preferred.

The salary range for this position is $65,000-$70,000. We recognize that attracting the best talent is key to our strategy and success as a company. As a result, we aim for flexibility in structuring competitive compensation offers to ensure we are able to attract the best candidates. The quoted salary range represents our good faith estimate as to what our ideal candidates are likely to expect, and we tailor our offers within the range based on the selected candidate's experience, industry knowledge, technical and communication skills, and other factors that may prove relevant during the interview process.

In addition to cash compensation, the company provides a comprehensive and highly competitive benefits package, with a variety of physical health, retirement and savings, caregiving, emotional wellbeing, transportation, and other benefits, including "elective" benefits employees may select to best fit the needs and personal situations of our diverse workforce.

HarperCollins Publishers is an equal opportunity employer.

HarperCollins Publishers is committed to providing reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities, in our job application and/or interview process. If you need assistance or accommodation in completing your application, due to a disability, email us at TalentManagement@harpercollins.com. Note: we will only respond to accommodation requests.