Producer

Cornerstone Church; Ames (IA); On-site; USD 42,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

Cornerstone Church is seeking a Producer to architect the sound of Cornerstone Worship and translate weekly visions into what the room hears and feels. The role integrates volunteer development, training, and leadership across worship teams to deliver Sunday experiences that reflect the church's mission.

This is a full-time, in-house position where volunteers self-manage through a broad creative scope, demanding resourcefulness, collaboration, and a shared faith-based commitment to excellence.

Qualifications

• Role requires leadership, vision, and ability to work with volunteers.
• Experience in music direction or worship settings is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Own the vision and direction of Cornerstone Worship.
• Serve as Music Director for Sunday morning gatherings.
• Lead musical execution of the Worship Director's vision, including arrangements and real-time direction of the band.
• Coordinate all aspects of Sunday morning musical execution (scheduling, resourcing, playback).
• Develop strategies to broaden and improve Cornerstone's musical expression over time.
• Articulate and advocate for the direction of Cornerstone's sound.
• Design scalable musical systems (arrangements, playback, rehearsal process) for an all-volunteer band.
• Collaborate with the worship development pipeline on musicianship and skill development.

Job description

PRODUCER

ONE LINE JOB DESCRIPTION: Architect the musical expression of Cornerstone Worship while executing that expression through the development of volunteers.

Direct Supervisor: JACOB BOYD

Job Title: PRODUCER

This is a FULL-TIME POSITION - 40 HOURS A WEEK

THE ROLE

Cornerstone Worship is looking for a Producer to become the architect of our sound — the person who takes the vision for our Sunday gatherings and translates it into what the room actually hears and feels each week.

This role exists inside a specific context worth understanding clearly: Cornerstone trains every musician in-house, with no contracted or hired players. Every voice and instrument on our platform is a volunteer we've developed ourselves. The right person for this role doesn't see that as a limitation to work around — they see it as the actual creative and strategic challenge worth solving. This is not a role for someone who wants to direct a band of seasoned professionals; it's a role for someone who wants to build something excellent and broad in expression with the people God has actually placed in the room.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Own the vision and direction of Cornerstone Worship
• Serve as Music Director for Cornerstone's Sunday morning gatherings, essentially every week.
• Own the musical execution of the Worship Director's vision for each service — arrangement, key and transition decisions, and real-time direction of the band.
• Build and coordinate all aspects of the musical execution of a Sunday morning including scheduling, resourcing, playback, etc.

• Think strategically and creatively about how Cornerstone's musical expression can broaden and improve over time — not change for its own sake, but genuine growth in range and quality.
• Bring a point of view on what Cornerstone's sound is and what it could become, and make the case for that direction

• Design how Cornerstone's musical systems (arrangements, playback, rehearsal process) can scale to a growing, all-volunteer band — not assume a pool of professional-caliber players.
• Build with reproducibility in mind: systems and resources that could eventually be handed off and used well by someone at a different campus who's never met you.

• Contribute real structure to how Cornerstone continues developing musicians across the board — this is a genuine part of the role, though not its primary focus.
• Partner with the broader worship development pipeline (Crowd → Dev Team → Serving → Apprentice → Resident) specifically on the musicianship and musical-skill side of that development, working alongside — not replacing — the team already responsible for that pipeline.

CORNERSTONE STAFF VALUES & QUALITIES

We want all of our employees at Cornerstone to reflect the cultural values of authentic, ambitious, family. This is the way we behave and live.

CORNERSTONE CHURCH MEMBERSHIP

By joining the Cornerstone Staff team, you and your spouse (if applicable) are automatically approved as members of Cornerstone Church. As members you are under the leadership of our elders and we will expect and inspect your faithfulness in attending, serving, giving, and living.

JOB EVALUATION

Your Job Description will be the basis of regular evaluation and coaching. Your direct supervisor will inspect what they expect from you as an employee.