Communications, Culture, and Experience Manager

Frederick, MD (On-site)

$100K/yr – $120K/yrSenior Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 1 day ago

Job Summary

Own and drive internal and brand communications for Music & Arts, coordinating with cross-functional partners to craft content, calendars, and campaigns that align with strategic priorities, culture, and brand.

  • Develop content for campaigns, digital experiences, emails, and presentations
  • Lead editorial calendars and brand voice alignment
  • Measure impact and mentor team

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Drive communication initiatives across Music & Arts in support of our strategic priorities, culture, and brand.
  • In collaboration with subject matter experts and cross-functional partners, identify, write, edit, publish, and deliver impactful communications for Music & Arts Associates and key internal channels.
  • Assist in developing creative content and copy for Music & Arts brand initiatives, including campaigns, digital experiences, social content, landing pages, emails, presentations, and other customer-facing communications.
  • Help define, maintain, and evolve the Music & Arts brand voice, ensuring copy is clear, consistent, audience-relevant, and aligned across channels.
  • Partner closely with Brand, Digital, Marketing, Creative, School Services, Lessons, and other teams to translate business objectives into compelling stories and content.
  • Build and maintain editorial/content calendars that connect Associate communications with key brand, seasonal, education, and business moments.
  • Edit and proofread high-visibility communications and creative copy, ensuring message clarity, accuracy, consistency, and brand alignment.
  • Drive Associate engagement, inform Associates, and reinforce Music & Arts priorities, culture, values, and vision.
  • Monitor and measure the impact of Associate communication and content campaigns.
  • Make recommendations as needed to ensure communication goals are achieved.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Communications or a related field is required (OR 5-7 years of directly relevant experience)
  • A minimum of 5 years of directly relevant work experience (in addition to degree or years of previous experience)
  • Experience managing people and/or leading cross-functional work.
  • Collaborative, proactive, flexible, can-do attitude.
  • Strong project and program management skills, able to drive multiple projects simultaneously.
  • Exceptional written and oral communication skills, with the ability to shift voice and tone across Associate and customer-facing audiences.
  • Advanced proficiency with digital communication and content platforms; experience with O365 or similar tools is a plus.
  • A demonstrated passion for audience experience across engagement, design, written and rich media communications, with an understanding of how to use each to achieve communication and brand goals.
  • Skilled in multi-tasking, delivering under tight timelines, adapting quickly to change.
  • Ability to create and foster productive and engaging employee relationships.
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Music & Arts

3.4 Glassdoor

The first Music & Arts, run by founder Benjamin O’Brien, opened in 1952 and was located in a small house in Bethesda, MD. Music & Arts now has more than 500 retail and affiliate locations, about 120 educational representatives and roughly 27,000 lesson students making it the nation’s largest school music retailer and lesson provider. Now based in Frederick, MD, the company of trained musicians offers friendly service for everything musical in your life including instruments, lessons, rentals and repairs. Visit MusicArts.com for more information.

Founded in 1952
Frederick, Maryland, USA
8.6K employees (4,378 in marketing)
62% recommend to a friend
52% CEO approval

Salaries

Posted range

$100K/yr – $120K/yr

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
210 (2% of company)
Median Tenure
4.3 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
633.3K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$33.3K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
53.5%
Direct
38.5%
Referral
5.4%
Social
2%
Paid
0.6%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~8.6K
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Communications, Culture, and Experience Manager

Music & Arts · Frederick, MD · On-site