Careers at Trala

About Trala

Trala is a technology powered music education company. Our mission is to make world-class music education accessible to every single person on Earth. Right now, private music lessons are so expensive that the joy of music is available only to the rich and urban. Imagine instead a world where all 4 billion people who will pick up an instrument in the next 20 years could get world-class lessons. Imagine how much more music and joy there would be in the world. That is the future we’re obsessed with realizing.

Our first product, Trala: Learn Violin is a mobile application that teaches anyone how to play violin. We do this using movie-quality tutorial videos featuring famous violinists and signal processing that listens to students play their real violins and gives instant feedback on every mistake. This is crazy-hard and requires us to solve novel problems in signal processing, app design, user psychology, and education theory.

Over the last 3 years, we have organically grown Trala to 250,000 downloads, a worldwide student base, and support from some of the most famous musicians in the world. Our students are ages 7 to 70 and live in rural Montana, Syria, tiny Pacific islands, Hong Kong, and of course, Chicago. They’re not businesses or governments, they’re people. They’ve dreamt of learning violin for years and we’re fulfilling those dreams.

We’re ready to expand. In the next 18 months, we will:

• Roll out new instruments in new languages.
• Build a community so students can play together and help each other.
• Create an educational curriculum that gets better with every new student we add.
• Unleash our students’ creativity by allowing them to create their own content.
• Scale our systems to support the millions of new musicians we’ll be creating.

It’s going to be a massive challenge. That’s where you come in.

In light of COVID-19, we’re currently a fully remote team but we plan on returning to our offices once it is safe to do so. As such, this role will start out fully remote but expect to be in the office regularly in the long term. As much as we want to meet you in person, our first priority is everyone’s safety and health.

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