VP, Engineering

This is a Full Time Job

WMG's top priority is the safety and wellbeing of its team members, artists and songwriters across the globe. In response to COVID-19, WMG is fully committed to helping its people balance their home and life commitments with flexible working options, virtual wellness sessions, and more. WMG strives to maintain a COVID-free workplace. To that end, being fully vaccinated against COVID-19 is a condition of employment for all US new employees, prior to the commencement of employment. If you are hired, you will be required to provide proof of your vaccination as part of your new employee onboarding process, subject to our legal obligation to make reasonable accommodations in certain limited circumstances.

We remain committed to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. We know it fosters a culture where you can truly belong, contribute, and grow. We encourage applications from people of any age, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, religion, ethnicity, disability, veteran status, and any other characteristic or identity.

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.

Job Title: VP, Engineering

A little bit about our team:

ADA is WMG's distribution arm for independent labels and DIY artists. The Product & Integration team is responsible for the technology that services our global community of independent artists & labels. We build tools that artists & labels use to run their careers and businesses. Our platform ensures that creative content is distributed out to the market accurately, on time, and set up to industry and artistic standards. We must constantly innovate to keep up with the music industry and provide opportunities, revenue, & promotion tools to the indie community.

Your role:

This role is a unique opportunity to join one of the fastest-growing independent music distributors as the first software engineer, reporting to the SVP of Product & Integration. You will execute on the ADA product vision & roadmap, while helping to build our team and engineering culture. You will work with engineers on the Global Tech team to ensure alignment on product strategy, architecture, design, and development between ADA and WMG. You will get to deliver consistent, high-quality products that are adopted by dispersed global teams and help transform the ADA Tech Team through shaping of best practices, developing reusable assets, and creating new products & processes that help us deliver a high volume of new music to market.

Here you'll get to:
• Be the founding member of ADA's Tech team & build our engineering culture and processes
• Be responsible for delivering a best-in-class distribution product & carry out the technology vision for ADA and our DIY product, Level
• Lead ADA's engineering practices and technical roadmap while maintaining alignment with WMG's Global Tech Org (e.g., te