Senior Managing Editor

The Senior Managing Editor oversees the editorial quality, consistency, and production of educational curricula and related materials across print and online products. This role manages a team of copyeditors, proofreaders, content engineers, and rights permissions specialists, ensuring the delivery of high quality materials for Lexia s professional learning and literacy instruction products. The Senior Managing Editor partners closely with other cross-functional teams to coordinate resources, workflows, schedules, budgets, releases, and deliverables.

This role establishes editorial and production processes, anticipates risks, develops solutions, and ensures all content meets style, accessibility, and quality standards to maintain consistency across published materials.

Job Responsibilities:
- Manage a team of copyeditors, content engineers, proofreaders, and rights permissions specialists in a rapid-paced publishing workplace
- Manage contract work, including sourcing, budgets, contracts, and invoicing




- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to allocate internal and external resources and establish workflows, schedules, and deliverables
- Participate in SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) planning and all related ceremonies
- Actively track progress, surface issues, and collaboratively develop solutions for all active projects
- Stay current on accessibility and technical requirements to ensure materials meet customer needs and technical specifications
- Manage reprint corrections and online change documents, coordinating with Curriculum, Design, Production, and Content Engineering teams, as well as external vendors and printers
- Ensure staff is trained on new technologies, including AI tools and software, to improve efficiency

Job Requirements:
- Bachelor s degree in English, Journalism, Publishing, or a related field
- 8 years of editorial experience in educational publishing
- 5 years managing large, multi-dimensional projects, complex wo

📌 Senior Managing Editor (India)
🏢 Learning Az
📍 India