Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Muse Group is looking for a General Manager to oversee Hal Leonard’s school methods portfolio and the Essential Elements Music Class platform. The role involves shaping the content roadmap for a digital platform that serves music classrooms, collaborating with authors and product teams to ensure high-quality resources.
Responsibilities
- Own content strategy, editorial direction, and commercial outcomes for the school methods portfolio, with primary responsibility for Essential Elements and related instructional products - quality, pedagogical clarity, market relevance, and revenue
- Lead products from concept through publication - initiation, manuscript development, review, production coordination, scheduling, and cover/art direction
- Drive content strategy and creation for EE Interactive, expanding print-to-digital pathways and teacher-facing resources, and growing active users and digital revenue
- Serve as senior editorial authority for method-based content, ensuring musical accuracy, sequencing integrity, and classroom usability
- Own the strategic direction and content roadmap for EEMC - prioritising song additions, lessons and assessments, and sustaining the cadence that supports subscription growth
- Develop internal processes to scale song availability on EEMC through closer collaboration with wider HL editorial team
- Ensure key standards correlations for both EE and EEMC are maintained and developed, using managed curriculum consultants for specialist input
- Set and own the AI-assisted content strategy across both portfolios - identifying, testing, and embedding tools that accelerate production and improve consistency, with sound quality control
- Build and manage senior relationships with authors, composers, arrangers, clinicians, ambassadors, and educator partners across the band/strings and general-music communities
- Partner at a senior level with Editorial, Digital, Sales, Marketing, Production, and Design to align strategy, timelines, positioning, and launch readiness
- Own content schedules, budgets, and vendor relationships for on-time, on-budget delivery across both portfolios
- Set long-range content strategy for both portfolios in collaboration with internal stakeholders and external education partners, informed by market and classroom insight
Skills
- Hands-on experience teaching, or deep direct knowledge of, band and/or strings instruction; personal experience with the Essential Elements series a strong bonus, some choral experience a plus
- Senior content, editorial, or product leadership experience in music or educational publishing - owning strategy and outcomes
- Demonstrated experience leading and developing external creative contributors (authors, composers, clinicians, consultants) through a structured editorial process
- Experience with - and sound strategic judgment about - AI-enabled content-production workflows, including quality control and appropriate use
- Strong digital content leadership; experience shaping and growing interactive or platform-based educational products
- Excellent program and stakeholder management across multiple portfolios, calendars, and senior collaborators in a deadline-driven environment
- Confidence operating at a senior cross-functional level, moving products from strategy to published release with clear accountability
- Bachelor's in music, music education, publishing, or related; advanced study a plus
- General music (K–8) curriculum familiarity - Orff/Kodály, NCAS/TEKS, SEL/CASEL - sufficient to direct EEMC contributors
- Music editing experience: notation proofing, score preparation, method-book production
- Music notation software (MuseScore, Sibelius, Finale, Noteflight)
- Knowledge of music licensing, copyright, and permissions
- Conference leadership (NAfME, TMEA, Midwest Clinic, MEA)
Benefits
- 401(k)
- Dental insurance
- Employee discount
- Flexible spending account
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
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