Reporting to Portfolio Director
About Packt
Packt's mission is to help the world put software to work in new ways, through the delivery of effective learning and information services to IT professionals. We are a technical publisher and learning provider with over 400 staff based across the globe, primarily in India and the UK. Our products have global relevance, and our multimedia portfolio includes over 7,000 books, e-books, audiobooks, and video courses. For more details, visit www.packtpub.com.
Within Packt, the publishing business is spread across a number of verticals, each focused on a particular domain. This role is for the Systems Administration & Networking vertical.
About the Game Development & Embedded Systems Vertical
We are a cross-functional, impact-driven team powering two of the most exciting domains in tech:
Game Development – supporting indie developers, AAA studios, and technical artists with tools like Unreal, Unity, Godot, Blender, and ZBrush, covering everything from gameplay programming to procedural animation, shaders, audio, and monetization.
Embedded Systems – enabling engineers to build reliable, real-time software for smart devices across robotics, automotive, healthcare, and IoT, with a focus on RTOS, firmware, Edge AI, and connectivity.
Our mission: to deliver trusted, practical, and forward-thinking resources that help creators and engineers solve real-world problems and stay ahead in rapidly evolving industries.
Role Overview
As a Content Engineer, you will own the content lifecycle for Packt’s technical learning products from concept to publication and beyond. You will be accountable not only for manuscript quality, but also for product information, positioning, derived content opportunities, lifecycle improvements, and evidence-based recommendations that improve content performance. You’ll achieve this through working with external technology authors and content experts, and internal Relationship Leads and Growth Leads, to deliver high-quality, impactful products. You’ll engineer content at every stage: shaping proposals, enhancing structure, coaching authors and ensuring products are updated to meet user needs. Current content products include books, newsletters, event-derived content and derived products, and we are constantly exploring new content forms to meet the needs of tech professionals.
Success in this role means delivering reliable book quality and timeliness, improving the value and performance of assigned products, managing author and expert relationships effectively and contributing to reusable capability across the CE team. The scope, complexity and level of ownership will vary by the level you are hired at, the needs of your vertical and your assigned responsibilities.
Working at Packt – Shaping the Future of Tech Learning
Packt is a digital-first tech publisher on a mission to help the world put software to work. We've recently undergone a company-wide transformation to better serve tech professionals in a rapidly evolving, AI-powered world. Our business is now structured around small, agile vertical teams, each focused on a specific tech domain or topic area, that combine publishing, product, relationship leadership, and marketing capabilities to build tailored content and learning solutions.
This means we move fast, experiment often, and work closely with our audiences to understand what they need. We're looking for people who thrive in a collaborative, entrepreneurial environment and who are motivated by delivering real impact, whether through building innovative products, shaping insightful content, enabling smarter systems and operations, or building and sustaining strong relationships with expert contributors and communities.
If you're excited by meaningful work, curious about how technology is reshaping careers and industries, and want to be part of a mission-led team, Packt could be the right place for you.
What You Will Own
You will own work across five areas:
What You Will Do
Book/Knowledge Quality and Delivery
Product Ownership and Derived Content
Some of this work will be assigned as DRI ownership, where you are the Directly Responsible Individual for a product, task or improvement initiative. These are usually separate from core book editorial tasks.
Author and Expert Relationship Management
Research, Market Awareness and Lifecycle Health
Capability, Tools and Process Improvement
Who You Are
Must-have skills:
Good-to-have skills:
Why Work at Packt
We are a global and remote-first business with most of our team based in India and the UK. We recognize how important our people are and acknowledge and support the things that are important to them. Our culture is open and informal and based around learning. We love sharing ideas and we want everyone to feel that they have an input into how the business works. We are a fun place to work but with a focus on performance and personal development providing opportunities for personal growth and career progression. We try to achieve this by:
We focus on the full employee experience. We seek to achieve this by:
Benefits:
You will also have access to a range of flexible benefits that are designed to help you make the most of your time with us.
Salary Range - INR 55K-120K fixed pay per month (skills and/or experience dependent)
Disclaimer: Packt does not authorize any third-party consultancies, influencers, or agencies to offer employment opportunities on our behalf. We are not involved in any financial transactions with these parties. Our hiring process is managed internally, and all applications should be made through the official procedures outlined in our job listings.
