Careers

Hachette Australia is the second largest publisher in Australia and part of the Hachette Livre Publishing group.

Just as our authors are important to us so is our staff. We aim for a non-corporate environment which is an enjoyable place to work each day. We go to great lengths to look after our employees, and to give our authors the best publishing experience in the industry.

Working at Hachette Australia not only comes with competitive salaries, and an industry-leading bonus plan, other benefits include; summertime working hours, paid parental leave schemes, and training opportunities.

If you are enthusiastic about publishing, hardworking, and looking for a great place to work, then you will enjoy being on our team.

Hachette x MDA Traineeship: Publishing Assistant

In partnership with Media Diversity Australia, Hachette Australia has an exciting opportunity for a talented, enthusiastic, and highly organised individual to join our award-winning publishing team as a Publishing Assistant. Media Diversity Australia is calling for expressions of interest from anyone who has relevant industry experience, from bookselling to journalism, or who has relevant tertiary qualifications in Publishing, Communications, English, or Creative Writing.

This is a two-year, entry-level traineeship and will include full-time employment at Hachette Australia, paired with mentorship from senior Hachette staff and external mentors provided by MDA. Located at Hachette’s Sydney CBD head office, you will be working closely with all divisions and departments, ensuring that Hachette Australia’s authors and books are fully supported.

As the Publishing Assistant, you will be required to multitask and build effective working relationships with our wonderful authors, colleagues and external contacts, and assist with our Children’s, Non-Fiction, Literary and Fiction lists with varied administrative tasks to ensure our books and authors are supported and published well. The successful applicant will have a genuine passion for reading, an interest in how books are produced and an ambition to have a career in the publishing industry.            

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’re interested in this opportunity, please visit mediadiversityaustralia.org/opportunities/ for more details and how to apply.

Summer Internship Program

Applications for Hachette Australia’s annual paid summer internship program are now closed. Check back next year for our 2024-2025 round.

Launched in 2020, the summer internship program is for anyone interested in a career in publishing. The full-time internship runs for four months, comes with an entry-level remuneration, and is offered each summer. No formal qualifications are necessary.

The Hachette Australia Summer Internship Program provides both a broad understanding of the trade publishing business and a deep dive into how the various departments within a commercial publishing house work together to take books to market – and ultimately into the hands of readers.

To help demystify working in Australian publishing and make the industry more accessible to people from a wide range of backgrounds and skillsets, Hachette Australia has also developed a local Guide to Publishing brimming with information about what life is like working inside a publishing house. Full details on the internship and Guide can be found here. 

Watch our 2022 virtual guide and Inside the Publisher Q&A 2023 for prospective interns and people interested to learn more about working in publishing. You can also read our Frequently Asked Questions.

A Guide to Publishing

This booklet will show you what publishing is, what publishers do and how you can have a rewarding career in publishing – whatever your skills or background.

Read the PDF.

Internships

Hachette Australia supports the Open Book Internship, a new paid internship program aimed at fostering cultural diversity in the Australian publishing industry. Please click here for more information and to apply.