Seeking DevOps Manager
Position: The DevOps Manager is able to think big picture while balancing extreme attention to detail, community, and technology. They are a self-starter who sees enormous room for growth in FREER Records and how their role is crucial in getting us there — in a scalable and steady fashion.
Our mission: To change the lives of formerly and currently incarcerated musicians so their work is widely heard, uncensored, and upholding of their creativity and humanity.
Our core values. A value we want to build with the DevOps Manager is Transparency. That is especially reflected in Goal 3 below.
The top three goals of DevOps Manager are:
Donors. Optimizing our donor relations so we can build a stronger community and grow our donor base.
Distribution. Running our digital and physical distribution of music and merch.
Royalties. Streamlining and operating our royalties and contracts so all our collaborators see airtight transparency
The DevOps Manager will be responsible for:
Building our CRM platform DonorPerfect (DP) to be more automated, organized, and people-focused.
Establishing an airtight system for residuals (Royalties) so our royalty statements go out semi-annually, on schedule, and are as thorough as possible. Apps: Quickbooks, potentially Bill.com and others.
Managing our digital distribution for FREER Records and FREER World with Airtable and Audiosalad.
Leading our physical Merch systems for both IRL and Digital sales. Managing our physical merch inventory and all digital sales. Apps: Square, Squarespace, Eventbrite, eventually Shopify, etc.
Helping our Founder and accountant utilize Quickbooks to its best ability, including Budgeting and Bookkeeping.
Streamlining our operations via various apps to be as fundraising-optimized as possible.
Integrating our email marketing platform Mailchimp with other people-facing software (DP, Squarespace, Square, Shopify, Quickbooks, Eventbrite) so we have useful data on our community.
Helping our Founder organize the FREER digital archive so it can be interacted with company-wide via our Network Attached Storage (NAS).
Helping our Founder organize the physical archive, including prison letters, artwork, and operational company documents.
Keeping abreast with AI technologies so as to streamline certain company operations. Using AI to make sure we do not fall behind, but are also not over-reliant and lazy.
Optimizing our Google Drive system especially as our NAS digital archive becomes more organized.
Assistant webmaster for freerrecords.com via Squarespace.
User of Slack for certain communications.
Keeper of physical equipment including printer, scanner, and other office supplies.
Compensation and Hours DOM will work 20 hours per week, 4-8 hours in person at our temporary Lower East Side office and 12-16 hours remotely. Salary: $31,200/year (30/hr). Ten days of paid vacation.
Staffing DOM will report primarily to Founder & Co-Executive Director Fury Young, who leads Operations and splits Development duties with Co-Executive Director BL Shirelle. DOM will report to BL Shirelle on certain Development and Operations matters.
If interested, please submit your resume and a cover letter explaining why you are passionate about this position. In your cover letter, explain why you are interested in working with formerly and currently incarcerated artists.
Email Fury & BL at: info at freerrecords dot com.
Please note: this position would begin no earlier than November 1, 2026. We look forward to hearing from you!