Transcription Specialist

We're looking for a Transcription Specialist to join our Pianote brand Team You must be:

- Passionate about music education.
- Have experience with people playing the music you create.
- Great at transcribing music using finale or similar software.
- Willing to come onsite to our Abbotsford Office (you'll get to work in our beautiful Studios and alongside incredible artists)

If this is sounding like you, keep reading

**To apply: Please submit 1-3 examples of music you have transcribed. You can do this by attaching a PDF, or other document type, or you can provide a link if you have a website with it."**

**Position Overview**

The Transcription Specialist plays a vital role in how Pianote creates the highest quality song transcriptions available

**Key Duties**:
Throughout the week you will perform tasks such as:

- Create transcriptions and arrangements for songs in a wide variety of genres, styles and difficulty levels.
- Transcribe educational or performance videos for weekly release. These will also be at a varying degree of difficulty and complexity.
- Contribute to creating a quality and level standard for transcriptions and arrangements for the Pianote brand.
- Work with feedback from the Brand Director on how to best serve our students
- Participate in video shoots or pre production meetings in order to best understand the content being filmed and the best way to serve that content with notation.
- Proof all transcriptions before releasing. Songs must not only sound great, they must feel great under the hands and be transcribed in a way that is intuitive to piano players.
- Manage all corrections found in previously released transcriptions
- Possibly work with + manage contracted transcribers if needed

**Key Qualifications**:

- Knowledge/Education/Experience_
- Proficiency in Finale software.
- Experience in transcribing multiple genres and styles, including lead sheets, accompaniments and full scores.
- An intermediate piano playing ability.
- Music theory. A certificate or degree is preferred but not required.
- Proficiency in the English language (verbal and written).
- Skills, Abilities and Other Attributes_
- Ability to exhibit the Company's Core Competencies, which include our three core values: Empathy, Passion, and Grit, as defined on our company website.
- A keen ability to pay attention to detail as it relates to sheet music
- Excellent project management and workflow management
- Empathy towards the player's experience of sheet music.
- Music theory knowledge as it relates to the piano
- Key understanding of data management and collaboration through Google Docs, spreadsheets, Google Drive, and more

**Responsibility**:

- Creating transcriptions to meet the brand team's needs
- Proofing all transcriptions before release
- If managing others, you’d be responsible for supervising/hiring/managing the performance of those people & ensuring you’re compliant with the company’s policies + processes.

**Key Performance Indicators (KPI)**:

- Accuracy and quality of transcriptions + arrangements.

**Reporting Structure**:

- Reports to the Brand Director.

**What we offer you**:

- $50,000-$55,000 CAD/year, depending on experience.
- Onsite/Hybrid, this role does require being onsite for certain aspects of the role.
- Full-time.
- **Career Growth. **You’re joining a growing team; we care about your career growth We’re always open to learning what you need to be successful and will do our best to work with you to make that possible
- **Learning and Development**. We encourage our employees to learn and develop their unique talents and strengths and offer Gallup-Clifton Strengths coaching and workshops.
- **Benefits**. Physical & mental health benefits, prescriptions, dental, and vision benefits - we care about our employees and want to ensure YOU have the benefits you need to stay healthy and well.
- **Paid time off**. We understand and value the importance of rest and recovery, including time away from work (Plus, you’ll get your birthday off.)
- **On-site gym**. We have a miniature “iron paradise” you’re welcome (encouraged, even) to use at your leisure.
- **Onsite SNACKS.** Including an assortment of drinks (alcoholic and nonalcoholic), Cliff bars, fruit, and a delicious assortment of cheeses.

**Who we are (Musora Media)**:
At Musora Media, we make playing the songs you love easier by combining great teachers, organized lessons, and practical technology with student-centred communities.

Jared Falk founded his first online lesson community in 2003 and has been steadily growing online education communities since then. Over time Musora Media has become a multi-faceted business that includes online media properties, digital and physical products, and an online education platform with over 180,000 students.

While we love all instruments, we currently have communities for drums (Drumeo), piano (Pianote), guitar (Guitareo) and voice (Singeo) within our online membership