Producer

Cornerstone Church•Ames, IA

42d•Onsite

About The Position

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.

Requirements

Architect the musical expression of Cornerstone Worship
Execute that expression through the development of volunteers
Train every musician in-house
Develop volunteers

Nice To Haves

Reflect the cultural values of authentic, ambitious, family

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.