At Warner Music Group, we’re a global collective of music makers and music lovers, tech innovators and inspired entrepreneurs, game-changing creatives and passionate team members. Here, we turn dreams into stardom and audiences into fans. We are guided by three core values that underpin everything we do across all our diverse businesses:
• Curiosity: We do our best work when we’re immersing ourselves in culture and breaking through barriers. Curiosity is the driving force behind creativity and ingenuity. It fuels innovation, and innovation is the key to our future.
• Collaboration: Making music and bringing it to the world is all about the power of originality amplified by teamwork. A great idea, like a great song, travels globally. We ignite passions and build connections across our diverse community of artists, songwriters, partners, and fans.
• Commitment: We pursue excellence for our team and our talent. Everything in music starts with a leap into the unknown, and we’re committed to keeping the faith, acting with integrity, and delivering on our promises.
Technology is one of the most important parts of our business. Whether it’s signing up new artists; ensuring we provide the right data to Spotify, YouTube, and other digital service providers; or helping artists use the latest AI tools and make thoughtful decisions with data-driven insights – technology plays an invaluable role in our success. The engineering team at Warner Music Group makes all of it a reality.
WMG is home to a wide range of artists, musicians, and songwriters that fuel our success. That is why we are committed to creating a work environment that actively values, appreciates, and respects everyone. We encourage applications from people with a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences.
Consider a career at WMG and get the best of both worlds – an innovative global music company that retains the creative spirit of a nimble independent.
A little bit about our team:
We are seeking an Engineering Manager to lead our fast-evolving Automated Marketing engineering team. This person will work closely with marketing and product teams to deliver value to the business quickly through the development of internal tools and pipelines ranging from early prototypes to fully-supported products. This team focuses on the full stack, including data engineering, data pipelining, backend development in Python, and front-end development in React. This is an exciting opportunity to work with a world-class team on AI/ML-driven solutions to complex marketing problems.
Your role:
As a
Software Engineering Manager you will serve as Technical Lead Manager where you are hands-on and involved in designing and implementing greenfield projects with your team.
### Here you’ll get to:
Own team deliverables and objectives
Set technical strategy and engineering best practices in collaboration with senior engineers
Provide active career development and technical guidance to engineers
Hire, build your team, and manage performance
Collaborate closely with business stakeholders to ensure successful project management
Reimagine and implement the future of data for the music industry
Build, drive and uplift a dynamic and highly effective engineering team
Own the creation and delivery of innovative products
### About you:
You have a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or other related field
You’re a passionate engineering leader, with at least 2 years of experience leading engineering teams of 5-10+ software engineers
You are hands on leader who writes code, conducts code reviews, and is involved in architectural design and strategy work
You communicate effectively and have a proven track record of effective hiring and team building
You thrive in ambiguity and fast-paced, evolving environments
You’re an empathetic leader who builds strong teams
You’ve worked with and/or overseen teams working with AWS and Python
We’d love it if you also had:
Development experience with AWS, Python, and React is a plus, although not mandatory.
As the home to 10K Projects, Asylum, Atlantic Music Group, East West, FFRR, Fueled by Ramen, Nonesuch, Parlophone, Rhino, Roadrunner, Sire, Warner Records, Warner Classics, and several other of the world’s premier recording labels, Warner Music Group champions emerging artists and global superstars alike. And our renowned publishing company, Warner Chappell Music, represents genre-spanning songwriters and producers through a catalog of more than one million copyrights worldwide. Warner Music Group is also home to ADA, which supports the independent community, as well as artist services division WMX. In addition, WMG counts film and television storytelling powerhouse Warner Music Entertainment among its many brands.
Together, we are Warner Music Group: Independent Minds. Major Sound.
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Don’t be discouraged if you don’t hear from us right away. We’re taking our time to review all resumes, and to find the best people for WMG.
Thanks for your interest in working for WMG. We love it here, and think you will, too.
WMG is committed to inclusion and diversity in all aspects of our business.
