- The Indexer/Copyeditor Contractor works as part of a team that accurately creates, enters, edits, and maintains product information elements (metadata) for all products.
- The Indexer/Copyeditor Contractor focuses on ensuring completeness, accuracy, and suitability of all metadata.
- The Indexer/Copyeditor Contractor is also an energetic and creative troubleshooter who works with a wide variety of people regarding all issues related to content.
- The ideal candidate should be an avid consumer of media, including books/periodicals (audio and digital reader), websites, blogs, and other digital content sources.
- He/she is also a self-starter with impeccable organizational and analytical skills, a confident and upbeat communicator via written and verbal business communication skills, highly organized and detail-oriented, and able to thrive in a high-energy entrepreneurial environment.
- Previous proofreading and/or copyediting experience is required.
Key Accountabilities :
Product Metadata Indexing and Copyediting :
- The Indexer/Copyeditor Contractor proofreads and fact-checks all product descriptions and supporting information prior to releasing a product to be published to marketplaces (stores, Amazon.com, iTunes).
- Key elements such as a product's price, on-sale date, territory rights, availability, provider, royalty earner, associated Amazon ASIN code, and all taxonomy elements are top priority areas of review.
- The Indexer/Copyeditor Contractor also provides QA for style in product descriptions, data consistency, and related product linking for all product metadata.
- The Indexer/Copyeditor Contractor needs to meet daily copyediting quotas and complete prioritized processing requests.
Editorial :
- The Indexer/Copyeditor Contractor may need to research, edit, rewrite, or occasionally create descriptions for products.
- The Indexer/Copyeditor Contractor may need to research and assemble positive product review "blurbs” to be added to product descriptions.
Skills/Experience Requirements :
- BA/BS or equivalent degree, preferably in Humanities
- Editorial experience preparing online content
- Proofreading experience; copyediting experience a plus
- Working knowledge of database concepts (including Excel skills) and best practices
- Demonstrated multitasking and problem-solving skills in a fast-paced, time-sensitive environment
- Demonstrated ability to work with a wide variety of people
- Demonstrated focused attention to detail
- Highly organized
- Technical proficiency in Windows operating environment
- An avid consumer of online media, including books (audio and print), websites, blogs, and other digital content sources.
- A confident and upbeat communicator via written and verbal business communication skills.
- Minimum one-year professional proofreading, copyediting, and fact-checking experience in publishing
- Minimum one year of experience in a Web-based publishing environment
- Familiarity with social media and Web-based research tools (e.g., Google, Goodreads)
- Basic familiarity with SEO concepts
About the Company :
- Our client is a company whose entrepreneurial spirit with a team of pioneers and inventors who are not afraid to disrupt the status quo and apply an innovative approach to everything they do—from revolutionizing an art form to enacting positive change in the cities and countries in which we operate. As the largest producer of audiobooks in the world, they are passionate about well-composed words that are artfully performed. The company’s consistent focus on technological innovation and superior programming has earned them many millions of habituated subscribers.
- The company’s People Principles celebrate who they are and where they have been, and guide the way they work shoulder to shoulder to enhance the lives of their millions of customers. They reflect and apply to everyone who works with our clients. The entrepreneurs and operators, the dreamers and the doers, those who have worked there for 20 years, and those who have arrived in the past few weeks and months.