Audio studio assistant

Closing date: 2nd September 2024

Salary: £27,000 (+bonus +benefits)

Location: The role will be based at our London office, Carmelite House, with a blend of in-office (3 days) and homeworking (2 days) per week.

This exciting opportunity would be a great fit for someone with a keen interest in audiobooks, who wants to work across all stages of the process and bring their ideas and enthusiasm to help us make brilliant audiobooks.

Hachette UK is a creative powerhouse and the UK's second largest book publishing group. Our mission is to make it easy for everyone to discover new worlds of ideas, learning, entertainment and opportunity.

We're made up of 12 autonomous publishing divisions and over 60 imprints with a rich and diverse history and an incredible range of authors. We're also the market leader in e-books and publish a range of bestsellers in audio format, the fastest growing part of our business.

We started investing in our in-house audio studios in 2019, and following the success we have continued to invest and expand this operation by building more studios and expanding the team. Earlier this year we opened our first studio outside of London at our Sheffield office, this has opened up exciting opportunities to further expand the range of voices reading our audiobooks in line with our mission to change the story.

What you'll be doing

• As a member of the studio pre-production team, you will work on your own range of projects, recorded at our Sheffield and London studios, ensuring they pass through all stages of our process and meet the required deadlines.


• You will work with agents on casting suitable narrators for each project and our publishing colleagues to ensure recording sessions are booked into the studio and narrators are prepared for the sessions.


• You will be responsible for raising PO's, sending out contracts and keeping our schedules updated on each projects progress.

Who we're looking for

• We are looking for someone who is passionate about audiobooks, and who wants to get involved in the pre-production side of a recording studio environment with an interest in casting great voices for audiobooks.


• You should be highly organised, have a good knowledge of Microsoft O365, be detail focussed and able to work independently on multiple projects.


• The studio is a fast-paced environment and the ability to deliver to tight deadlines, whilst ensuring quality standards are met is a key skill we are looking for.

What we offer

Our staff are our greatest asset, and our benefits reflect this:

• 28 annual leave days per year, increases to 29 days after 2 years' service and goes up to 30 days after 5 years' (+ bank holidays)


• Private medical insurance


• Generous pension schemes


• Rent deposit loans


• 2 community days per year


• Summer hours (finishing at 1pm on Fridays during the summer months)


• Retail discounts through Hachette rewards


• Cycle to Work scheme


• Eye care vouchers


• Wide-ranging training library


• Development programmes (including mentoring)


• Up to 70% off book purchases


• A charity bookshelf


• 12 Staff-led employee networks that are voluntary, including Gender Balance, Thrive, Pride, All Together, Wellbeing and religious networks


• Season ticket loans


• And much more!

Our commitment

Hachette employs people on the basis of their abilities. We aim to attract and develop talent from a base as broad as the world of readers we want to reach, with a wide and representative range of age, faith, disability, race, gender, sexuality and socio-economic, regional and cultural backgrounds.

If you are shortlisted and need us to make any adjustments to help you attend for interview, please let us know.

Please state in your application that you found this role through Creative Access.

The Book Trade Charity offers financial support to people looking to enter the book trade but who may struggle to afford the costs of attending interviews and undertaking junior roles. For more information visit www.booktradeentrysupport.org