JOBS AT JOFFE

DIGITAL MARKETING ASSITANT

Joffe Books is looking for a creative, driven individual to join our Digital Marketing team. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone currently working in a similar role or who is looking for their next step, with a passion for marketing, books, digital innovation and a start-up mentality. We welcome applicants without a publishing background.

Joffe Books Group includes Joffe Books, Lume, BookFolks, Choc Lit and Severn House, and is a leading award-winning independent publisher, covering all fiction genres and non-fiction. Reporting directly to the Head of Marketing, we want you to deliver innovative and engaging marketing campaigns across our titles, from established bestsellers to promising debuts.

Your key duties would include:

  • Using the full marketing mix, including social media and email marketing:

  • Working alongside our marketing team to create marketing campaigns for several books per week, including copy and visuals

  • Ensuring that advertising campaigns are supported to increase each book’s profile and sales

  • Developing creative strategies for how we can spend money effectively so we can sell even more books

  • Monitor and report on campaign performance using analytics tools

  • Coordinate promotional activities such as cover reveals, blog tours, and virtual events

  • Conduct market and competitor research to identify trends and opportunities

  • Collaborate with authors, designers, and editorial teams to ensure consistent branding

  • Contributing to a variety of social media channels, including creating great social media assets, eye-catching ad images and brilliant copy

Desired experience/skills:

  • Experience assisting and/or managing the planning, implementing and measuring digital advertising campaigns in any industry.

  • Enthusiastic about all mainstream marketing channels.

  • Excellent copywriting and proofreading skills: press releases, ad copy, social media copy, awards submissions, etc.

  • A great eye for design including using various design software such as Canva and Photoshop and new technology, including AI assisted tools.

  • Experience creating ads and/or videos (.gifs/.jpegs, etc.), and other publicity materials, using a variety of tools.

  • The ability to work collaboratively within a team and to communicate with authors, agents and the Joffe Books team effectively and straightforwardly.

  • Proactive and resourceful with the ability to work independently and manage multiple projects.

This full-time position is based at the Joffe Books office in Shoreditch, London, with a hybrid working pattern of working in the office (3 days) and working from home (2 days). If this sounds exciting, we would love to hear from you!

Our benefits include:

  • 10 a.m.–4.30 p.m. office hours, great for work/life balance.

  • Hybrid working pattern, with 3 days in the office.

  • 25 paid holidays per year + bank holidays.

  • Up to 3 wellness days a year.

  • Health insurance.

  • Pension scheme.

  • Company culture! Including staff-nominated charitable giving, access to publishing resources, access to professional training and development, publishing events, being heard and encouraged to innovate, and a shared love for pets, pizzas and pastries and doughnuts.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from anyone of any background, race, ethnicity, religion, sexuality, genre identity, age, ability or socio-economic status. We strive to be a company where you will thrive.

Email work@joffebooks.com with:

  • Your CV

  • A 100-word blurb about who you are and why you’re right for the job in the body of the email

  • Choose one book from the Joffe Books Group catalogue and create one eye-catching image for social media or advertising purposes

  • Job reference ‘JB DIGITAL MARKETING ASST’ and your name in the subject line of the email.

Please note: applications sent without the proper reference will not be accepted.

Deadline: Friday 17th of April (Priority for interview will be given to early applicants. Ideally to start ASAP.)

Contact: Hanna Myers

Salary: £27k

ABOUT JOFFE BOOKS

Joffe Books is one of the UK’s leading independent publishers of bestselling fiction, with over 3 million books sold last year. We really care about our authors and our readers and have built a company defined by those relationships. If you have a passion for romance, a knack for organisation, and the desire to work in a creative and supportive environment, this is an exciting opportunity to contribute to the growth of a leading UK independent publisher and make a real impact within the romance genre.

Joffe Books is committed to building a diverse workforce that reflects the varied communities that read our books across the world. We encourage applications from all individuals, regardless of age, religion, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexuality or social background.