Strive to Be Music Team Manager

The Music Team Manager leads the Strive to Be music team and serves as channel manager for Strive to Be Music, providing strategic oversight for the platform and the team. The role shapes the direction of contemporary music products and resources for the Church’s youth and young adults, from evaluating worldwide music needs to creating music and responding to requests from Church leaders, General Organizations and departments.

This role is accountable for the team, represents Strive to Be Music with stakeholders and leadership, implements communication plans with communication and program managers, coordinates with the Publishing Services Department, and leads support for Church areas producing their own music. It includes managing people and their work in producing contemporary music and related assets.

Required:

- A bachelor’s degree in music business, business, communications or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- 8 years of music-related experience, including experience in the contemporary music industry and fluency in its vernacular: releases, distribution, digital streaming platforms (DSPs), playlisting, metadata, rights and licensing. Deep audio production or engineering skill is not required.
- Experience releasing and managing music on DSPs such as Spotify, Apple Music and YouTube, at any scale, including as an independent artist, songwriter or producer.
- Experience leading creative professionals and being accountable for their work; able to balance creative quality against deadlines, budget and capacity.
- Able to understand stakeholder needs, confirm priorities and report back, with the executive presence to represent Strive to Be Music to department leadership.
- Able to report on channel performance in plain language for non-technical leaders; comfortable with tools such as Spotify for Artists and YouTube Studio.
- Able to turn organizational goals into music priorities and measurable outcomes; experience running annual and multi-year roadmaps and coordinating several projects at once.
- Experience designing and delivering training and consulting for distributed teams, including in person; skilled at building relationships across cultures and regions. Willing to travel.
- Experience maintaining brand standards and approval processes across many contributors and markets.
- Understands Strive to Be Music as a channel of Church communication, measured by the outcomes Church leaders want for youth and young adults, not only by streams. Able to receive and implement direction from Church leaders.

Preferred:

- Experience hiring, coaching and evaluating staff, contractors and freelancers.
- Knowledge of youth audiences and current music listening trends.
- Experience in contemporary Christian or faith-based music, or with global or multicultural music initiatives.
- Experience with publishing, distribution or intellectual property processes.
- A PMP or similar project management certification.
- An advanced degree, such as an MBA.