Pickup Music

I’m Sam Blakelock, co-founder at Pickup Music and I’ll be hiring for this role.

We don’t hire often, so this is a rare opportunity where you’ll be coming in early to help shape piano education at Pickup Music, both in front of and behind the camera.

You can read more about our company here: https://www.pickupmusic.com/about

About the job

We are looking for a pianist to lead the development of piano lessons. This role involves a mix of preparing and teaching lessons on camera, producing other teachers to create lessons, and supporting our community of piano learners.

You’re the right person for the job if you fit the following three requirements:

1. You’re a professional pianist. You can sight-read, improvise fluently, play multiple styles and you have extensive performing experience.

2. You’re passionate about creating video lessons to teach beginner to intermediate students.

3. You’re excited to work with a fast-growing music technology company to build something special that helps tens of thousands of people learn music.

Where is it based?

This is a full time role based in Los Angeles. The hours are normal working hours - Monday to Friday. You’ll be in the studio at least 80% of the time but some of your pre and post production work can be done at home.

What’s the pay?

$75,000 / year

We also offer a 401K 4% match, healthcare, 20 days paid leave, sick leave, and parental leave.

What’s the work look like?

At Pickup Music, we respect and allow time for our team members to shut out the noise, and focus on their deep, meaningful work. For you, this deep work will be primarily writing, producing and filming the world’s best piano curriculum.

Here’s what your first 30 days will look like:

• Week 1: onboarding, where you can meet the team, learn our product and start to plan your first course.
• Week 2: teach a course, with another producerproducing you, so you can see what it’s like to do a class end-to-end.
• Week 3: start work on your first learning pathway.

Day to day, you’ll be working with our piano lead, head of education and our LA production team. As well as being on camera, you will direct and produce talent and see classes through to publish.

We don’t expect you to hit the ground running. We’ll be coaching you through how to produce a class at Pickup Music. You’ll learn from our other producers and we’ll iterate quickly from user feedback.

Not in the US? Unfortunately this job is only available for people legally able to work in the US. We are not sponsoring visas for this role, and it is not a remote job.