Music Director

We are seeking a highly skilled, spiritually mature Music Director / Worship Music Director who can help build, strengthen, and carry the musical culture of Creative Church across our worship environments.

This is more than a keys position or someone who simply directs the band on Sundays. We are looking for a builder, developer, musical leader, and highly proficient worship keys player who can take ownership of the practical musical needs of the worship department while helping cultivate the spiritual health, excellence, unity, creativity, and flexibility that mark our culture.

The Music Director works closely with the Worship Director, worship leaders, musicians, and Production Team to turn vision into execution—preparing teams, strengthening arrangements, developing musicians, shaping our worship sound, and helping create environments that are musically excellent while remaining deeply responsive to the Holy Spirit.

This person should be equally comfortable preparing a detailed musical arrangement and abandoning that arrangement when the room moves in another direction. They should understand how to lead a band through planned worship, extended ministry moments, spontaneous worship, hymns, modern worship songs, and everything in between.

Presence matters. Preparation matters. Culture matters.

Direct and lead worship musicians during rehearsals, soundchecks, and services

Take ownership of the musical preparation and execution of worship sets across Creative Church environments

Support worship leaders in carrying the vision, direction, and flow of each service

• Build arrangements, transitions, dynamics, spontaneous moments, tags, vamps, musical cues, and extended worship sections

Help create musical environments that are prepared and excellent without becoming rigid or over-produced

• Remain highly flexible and responsive when worship leaders or pastoral leadership change arrangements, repeat sections, move into spontaneous worship, change keys, introduce an unplanned song, or adjust direction in the moment
• Recognize where a worship leader is going musically and help the band follow quickly and confidently
• Communicate clearly with musicians during rehearsals and live worship through Nashville Numbers, musical cues, talkback, hand signals, and other established systems

Support the Worship Director on Sunday mornings by helping lead the team both practically and spiritually

Work closely with Production and Audio to ensure the band, playback, keys, transitions, and overall musical sound function cohesively

• Understand how to create musical space that supports prayer, ministry, healing, altar moments, and spontaneous worship without overplaying

Prepare and organize songs before rehearsals and services

Create clean, accurate Nashville Number charts, chord charts, arrangements, and other musical resources

Maintain accurate musical resources within Planning Center Online

• Ensure keys, BPMs, arrangements, tracks, patches, sounds, pads, transitions, and necessary musical information are prepared and communicated before teams arrive
• Review upcoming worship plans and identify musical needs, difficult transitions, key changes, spontaneous opportunities, or potential issues ahead of time

Develop musical solutions and backup plans when necessary

Help maintain consistency in how songs are arranged and executed across Creative Church Build systems and resources that allow volunteer musicians to walk into rehearsals prepared and confident

• Develop a strong working knowledge of Creative Church's worship repertoire, including modern worship music, hymns, gospel-influenced worship, contemporary worship, historic songs of the Church, spontaneous worship, and songs spanning multiple generations

The Music Director should be able to confidently lead worship from keys while understanding how keyboard sounds, textures, voicings, dynamics, and musical space shape the atmosphere of a worship environment.

Responsibilities include:

• Demonstrate advanced proficiency on piano and keyboard in both rehearsed and spontaneous environments
• Confidently use Nord keyboards and understand patch selection, layering, splits, organ sounds, piano sounds, synths, pads, and live worship workflows
• Build and maintain modern worship keyboard sounds using tools such as:
  • Nord
  • Main Stage
  • MIDI programming
  • Ableton Live
  • Omnisphere
  • Keyscape
  • Software instruments and MIDI…