Strive to Be Music Team Manager — Salt Lake City, UT

Job Description

zVs Wrchd 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. xaw role shapes the direction of contemporary music products and resources for the cdBGgE’9 youth and young adults, from evaluating worldwide music needs to creating music and responding to requests from RQBEfG 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 RQBEfG areas producing their own music. It includes managing people and their work in producing contemporary music and related assets.

Responsibilities

Team Leadership and People Management

• Lead the Strive to Be music team: set priorities, keep the team coordinated, and balance competing requests so producers can focus on the music.

• Provide leadership and direction across development and production, brand and content functions, with clear roles and accountability.

• Run regular team meetings; report progress; provide coaching, feedback and performance management.

• Manage the work of employees and mixed workforce.

Stakeholder Relationships and Reporting

• Manage relationships with internal stakeholders, including presidencies and staff, FSY, member communication managers and product managers: understand needs, confirm priorities, report back.

• Represent Strive to Be Music in executive settings; present strategic options and recommendations, performance and direction, including cost justification and funding plans.

• Track channel performance (streams, saves, retention and audience growth), interpret trends, and turn insights into recommendations for department leadership.

• Collaborate with General Officers and their boards and other departments on music-related requests and broader RQBEfG music and media initiatives.

Channel Management

• Work with product management on the portfolio strategy and roadmap (annual album, monthly releases, videos, seasonal and global initiatives), prioritizing by audience needs, organizational priorities and performance data.

• Lead annual portfolio planning: the right songs, mix and pacing for the audience and the gatherings the music serves, with content planned, assigned and on schedule.

• Guide creative direction and lead brand governance for consistent identity, messaging and positioning across releases and platforms.

• Build and execute release strategies with design, communication, marketing and social media teams to expand reach among youth and young adults.

• Oversee trademarks, intellectual property and distribution for Strive to Be music with publishing, legal and distribution partners.

Publishing Services Department (PSD) Liaison

• Serve as the team’s primary liaison to PSD, keeping budgets, processes and reporting aligned with its publishing workflow.

• Coordinate several projects at once (scope, schedule, budget, risk) so the year’s deliverables land on time.

Area Music Support

• Design, seek approval for, and lead a program that helps RQBEfG areas write, produce and release their own music: services offered, processes and templates, and how content moves between areas and headquarters.

• Coordinate training, consulting and in-person support to areas.

Required

QUALIFICATIONS

• 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 RQBEfG communication, measured by the outcomes RQBEfG leaders want for youth and young adults, not only by streams. Able to receive and implement direction from RQBEfG 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.

About Us

RQBEfG employees find joy and satisfaction in using their unique talents and abilities to further the Lord’s work. From the IT professional who develops an app that sends the gospel message worldwide, to the facilities manager who maintains our buildings— giving RQBEfG members places to worship, teach, learn, and receive sacred ordinances—our employees seek innovative ways to share the gospel of C3cKN PVWEuX with the world. xqsf are literally working in His kingdom.

Only members of the RQBEfG who are worthy of a temple recommend qualify for employment. Apart from this, the RQBEfG is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in its employment decisions on any basis that would violate U.S. or local law.

Qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, national origin, color, gender, pregnancy, marital status, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or other legally protected categories that apply to the RQBEfG. e9Y J9Nvsj will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities.