Head of Engineering

This is a Full Time Job

Beverly Hills - 9601 Wilshire

WME is seeking a Head of Engineering to support the transformation of our Product & Engineering organization. This team member will be supporting all facets of the

You should be a strategic, thoughtful, and savvy engineering professional with a background in leading technology transformations and a passion for the entertainment industries.

You must be detail-oriented, hands-on, possess exceptional relationship-building skills, and enjoy working in a highly iterative, agile, and fast-paced environment. Must be flexible and able to move quickly from one subject to another.

The role will report to WME's SVP, Product & Engineering and will be 100% remote.

Responsibilities
• Lead the evolution of WME's legacy technology stack into modern, modular, cloud-ready systems.
• Serve as both architect and player-coach: designing systems, prototyping solutions, and writing code while guiding teams.
• Introduce modern engineering practices such as agile delivery, CI/CD, automated testing, and infrastructure-as-code.
• Recruit, mentor, and develop engineers, shaping a collaborative and growth-oriented engineering culture.
• Collaborate with Product, Design, and Business leaders to ensure technical decisions align with strategy and operational needs.
• Establish enterprise coding standards, architecture patterns, and governance frameworks that support long-term scalability and quality.
• Balance modernization with pragmatism-evolving existing systems and processes incrementally to minimize disruption.

Requirements
• 15+ years of software development experience with 8+ years in architecture and solution design.
• Deep expertise in .NET (C#, .NET Core/6+, ASP.NET, Web API, Entity Framework) and familiarity with open-source and cloud-native technologies.
• Proven success leading large-scale modernization efforts and agile transformations in enterprise environments.
• Strong knowledge of cloud platforms (Azure preferred), APIs, microservices, data platforms, and distributed systems.
• Demonstrated technical leadership, coalition-building, and communication skills across engineering and business stakeholders.
• Experience recruiting, mentoring, and developing high-performing engineering teams.
• Background in entertainment, media, or related industries strongly preferred.

Success in 12 Months

Within a year, WME's Head of Engineering will have established the foundation for both a modern technical platform and a high-performing engineering organization. Legacy systems will be evolving into modular, cloud-ready services, and agile and DevOps practices will be embedded in daily work. A strong, collaborative engineering culture will be in place-delivering faster, more reliably, and in closer partnership with Product, Design, and the business.