General Manager, Education - Content
We are looking for a General Manager to take ownership over Hal Leonard’s school methods portfolio, Essential Elements, and flagship K–8 general music platform, Essential Elements Music Class (EEMC).
In this role, you’ll shape the content roadmap for a growing digital platform that serves elementary and middle school music classrooms. You’ll work directly with authors, composers, consultants, and the product team to ensure every resource meets the highest pedagogical and editorial standards.
We are actively integrating AI and automation into all areas of the business and expect candidates with mindset focused on improving efficiency and deliver a better user experience.
What’s in it for you?
Shape the Future of Music Education: Lead content strategy for one of the most comprehensive K–8 general music platforms available, directly impacting how music is taught in classrooms worldwide.
Creative & Strategic Autonomy: Define how elementary music content is built, scaled, and enhanced, incorporating AI-assisted models and tools, and collaborating with talented authors, composers, and curriculum specialists, to produce engaging, pedagogically sound resources.
High-Impact Collaboration: Work closely with product, design, and education experts in a fast-moving environment where your decisions are visible.
Key responsibilities
Required experience
- 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.
Nice to have:
- 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
Muse Group empowers music makers
We create the worldʼs most popular apps for playing, recording and composing music. Through our innovative learning tools, expansive music catalogs and free open-source software, we make it easier for millions — from beginners to experienced musicians — to be creative every day. Our talented team of music lovers collaborates all over the globe, from Limassol to Seoul and Boston to Berlin.
We’re an ambitious company with the drive and culture of a startup — with many more exciting Muse Group developments to come. Hal Leonard, which joined Muse Group in 2023, is the world leader in sheet music publishing and music education. The company has a storied history of providing music learners with the very best methods and arrangements of popular music for over 70 years. Hal Leonard is also a major distributor of popular brands of instruments, gear, and software to the music trade worldwide.
