Contracts Assistant, The Crown Publishing Group and Sourcebooks (Hybrid)

Job description

The contracts department at Penguin Random House seeks a Contracts Assistant to join The Crown Publishing Group and Sourcebooks contracts team. The Contracts Assistant is an integral part of the drafting, negotiating, and complete execution of contracts while partnering with many different areas of the company. The Contracts Assistant will work closely with the Contracts Director and Associate Contracts Director while liaising with editorial, legal, royalties & accounting, and the various contracts teams and partnering closely with agents, authors, and publishing entities to finalize the acquisition of rights for The Crown Publishing Group and Sourcebooks. The Contracts Department represents an unrivaled roster of award-winning and celebrated titles across an editorial breadth that includes notable children’s board books, picture books, chapter books, and middle-grade books, break-out young adult fiction and non-fiction, adult fiction, narrative history, science, memoirs, study aids, self-help, personal development and topics of particular interest to women, as well as practical and prescriptive books and impactful titles on themes like teamwork, success, and leadership. We support...