Company: Harlequin Enterprises ULC
Date: March 19, 2026
Job Title: Product Manager, Harlequin Brand Publishing
Department: Harlequin Brand Group
Reporting To: Director, Harlequin Brand Publishing
Status: Regular Full Time
Location: 22 Adelaide Street West, Toronto
Job Vacancy Status: Vacant and actively accepting applications
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 is 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, people of colour, members of the LGBTQIA2S+ community and persons with disabilities.
Join us and share your story.
Do you believe in romance ever after? We do.
For over 75 years, Harlequin has been the heart of romance publishing, captivating readers around the globe with stories that inspire, delight, and ignite the imagination. Now, we’re looking for someone just as passionate about storytelling and innovation to join our team and help shape the next chapter of Harlequin’s legacy in North America.
We’re seeking a creative, resourceful, and forward-thinking individual to champion publishing initiatives for the Harlequin Brand. In this role, you’ll collaborate with editorial teams, direct reports, art directors and brand marketers to dream up and deliver bold new strategies that bring our stories to life, within our category romance lines and beyond. From crafting speed-to-market ideas that tap into the latest entertainment trends to reimagining processes for greater efficiency, you’ll be at the forefront of innovation—always ready to pivot, adapt, and seize new opportunities.
You’re a natural at staying organized and meeting deadlines, with exceptional project management skills and a proven ability to lead cross-functional teams toward shared goals. Your strategic mindset and insatiable curiosity drive you to uncover the “why” behind every challenge, inspiring collaboration and sparking solutions that make an impact. And your passion? It’s downright contagious. You’ll rally excitement across departments, championing how your publishing initiatives elevate Harlequin’s brand awareness, equity, and sales in North America.
The Ideal Candidate:
At Harlequin, we believe in the power of love, the magic of storytelling, and the thrill of creating something extraordinary. If you’re ready to help us write the next chapter, we’d love to hear from you.
About HarperCollins Canada and 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.
The salary range for this position is $74,000-$90,000. 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.
Known worldwide for the quality of its list, HarperCollins Canada is the proud home of many bestselling and award-winning authors, including Esi Edugyan, Heather O’Neill, and Lawrence Hill. It is our vision to publish the best books of our generation and to work with authors over the length and breadth of their careers. Our authors are at the centre of everything we do. In addition to the Canadian publishing program, HarperCollins Canada is responsible for the sales, marketing, and publicity of HarperCollins titles from around the globe
HarperCollins Canada and Harlequin are Equal Opportunity Employers committed to equal employment opportunities. Employment decisions are based on job requirements and the skills,
knowledge, and experience of the candidate, regardless of any other factors unrelated to job performance.
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.
We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.
HarperCollins Publishers is the second-largest consumer book publisher in the world.
Headquartered in New York, HarperCollins has publishing operations in 15 countries. With two hundred years of history and more than 120 branded imprints around the world, HarperCollins publishes approximately 10,000 new books every year in 16 languages, and has a print and digital catalog of more than 250,000 titles. Writing across dozens of genres, HarperCollins authors include winners of the Nobel Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Newbery and Caldecott Medals, and the Man Booker Prize. HarperCollins is a subsidiary of News Corp.
The house of Mark Twain, the Brontë sisters, Thackeray, Dickens, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Maurice Sendak, Shel Silverstein, and Margaret Wise Brown, HarperCollins has a long and rich history that reaches back to the early nineteenth century and offers our publishing team a depth of experience that few others can rival—from the modest print shop that James and John Harper opened in 1817 to the global house we are today.
