Current Opportunities

Chapter Leader – We Make Noise, Boston

Location: Boston, MA, USA
Compensation: Stipend-based (funded); potential to grow into paid leadership role
Time Commitment: Flexible; 5–15 hrs/week depending on programming goals
Leadership Structure: This role is flexible and can be structured as:

  • One Chapter Leader

  • Two Co-Leads 

  • A Team of 2–3 leaders dividing responsibilities

About We Make Noise

We Make Noise (WMN) is a global nonprofit harnessing the power of music and technology to advance global gender equity, equipping our communities with tools that cultivate limitless potential. We blend music creation, technology training, community building, and career development to instill the mindset and abilities needed for success in the music industry and beyond.

We Make Noise collaborates with our regional chapters worldwide and supports local leaders to bring WMN programming to their communities. From volunteer-led student groups in small towns to fully-funded programs in major music hubs, each chapter is unique, shaped by its local social, economic, and cultural context. What unites us is our shared commitment to advancing global gender equity in music and technology through education, community building, and creating opportunities.


About the Boston Chapter

Launched in 2022, We Make Noise Boston is BIPOC and Queer run bringing intersectional feminist to the center of the work we do. WMN Boston is here to create community, empower and educate people about music and music tech, provide workforce training and job opportunities to people in our community, and have a lot of fun.

We Make Noise Boston is a recipient of a 2024 and 2025 Neighborhood Downtown Activation Grant from the City of Boston, a 2023 and 2024 Boston Cultural Council Grant, a 2023 grant from Comcast, and a 2022 grant from Amazon. Our chapter has collaborated with: The Record Co., Mass NOW, Boston Center for Youth and Families, BRPM, Downtown Boston Alliance, Boston Women’s Market, and over 50 artists from the greater Boston area. 

Over the past several years, WMN Boston has:

  • Produced We Make Noise Fest, a free public festival in Downtown Crossing reaching ~50,000 attendees over three years featuring 30+ performing artists, 20+ visual artists, and 50+ makers and prioritizing representation (60%+ BIPOC and queer artists)

  • Secured $250K+ in grants and $100K+ in in-kind support

  • Created WMN Camp, a 3-day professional development intensive for emerging producers and songwriters

  • Partnered with Boston Centers for Youth & Families to deliver youth music production programming

  • Offer workshops and classes on music production, songwriting, and more

What It Means to Lead WMN Boston

The next Chapter Leader(s) will inherit a strong foundation, chapter funding and resources, active relationships, and a respected brand with room to shape the future direction. Chapter Leaders will be able to work upon previous chapter events and developments as well as shape the Boston chapter into their own vision of what they think best suits the community. While this is not currently structured as a full-time salaried role, funding infrastructure already exists. With the right leadership, the position could evolve into a paid, or could stay as a stipend role, the Chapter Leaders will get to decide what is best for them.

Chapter Leaders will:

Build Community: Cultivate an inclusive, intersectional creative community and foster safe, welcoming spaces for women, trans, and nonbinary musicians to engage in education, workforce development, and community building programing. 

Produce Events: Produce events such as workshops, meetups, classes, songwriting and production camps, and/or festivals and collaborate with the global WMN team on shared programming. The Chapter Leaders will inherit previous programming and program funding, but will ultimately be responsible for choosing the programming that best suits the needs of the community, and most excites leadership. 

Grow Partnerships: Maintain and expand partner relationships with artists, teaching artists, partner orgs, sponsors and the greater Boston community. 

Advocate and Represent: Champion gender equity in music and tech spaces and amplify underrepresented voices in Boston’s creative scene. Work with the Boston music community to create programming that reflects the needs of the community.

Who This Role Is Great For

We are seeking entrepreneurs, visionaries, creatives, and community driven leaders with the capacity to steward and grow a high impact cultural initiative. All experience levels are welcome to apply. Ideal candidates will demonstrate:

  • Commitment to Gender Equity: A strong dedication to intersectional feminist values and advancing equity for women, girls, trans, and nonbinary creatives in music and music technology.

  • Music Background: Professional, academic, or applied experience within the music ecosystem (e.g., production, songwriting, audio engineering, performance, DJing, music business, etc.).

  • Entrepreneurial Initiative: Self directed, visionaries who are comfortable building partnerships, securing funding, and turning dreams into realities. Ability to balance big picture vision with practical execution.

  • Event Production: Ability to plan and execute community gatherings from open mics, to house shows, to workshops, to festivals. Any and all forms of event production and community gathering experience may apply.  

  • Established Presence in Boston: Meaningful connections within Boston’s creative, cultural, or nonprofit communities.

  • Collaborative Leadership Style: Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively within a shared leadership structure, and to collaborate with other organizations in Boston.

Please send resume and letter of interest to naomi@we-make-noise.org by March 10th. Letters of interest can be a cover letter or a letter about your vision for We Make Noise Boston.