Software Engineering Manager, Global Licensing

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. Check out first-hand accounts from the WMG engineering, product, design, infrastructure and data teams in our blog! 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.

Your Role:

• We need a strong leader to be the Software Engineering Manager for our Global Licensing Systems team. These systems are used for the full life-cycle of music licensing; from finding the right music in our extensive catalog to pitch to external clients based on their unique needs, managing the approval workflow, and capturing the licensing terms and options for music recordings and works used across all kinds of media (movies, commercials, video games, compilation, mechanical licensing, etc).

  If you love music, data, and building world-class systems that scale, this role might be right for you.

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

• 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 6-10+ 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

We’d love it if you also had:

• Experience with Java, Angular, React, and AWS is a plus, although not mandatory.