Job description
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.
Warner Music Group (WMG) is a global music entertainment company with a rich history and a diverse roster of artists, a diverse roster of artists, such as Ed Sheeran, Dua Lipa, Diljit Dosanjh, Armaan Malik, Darshan Raval, and Ayushmann Khurrana. We are committed to innovation and leveraging technology to enhance the music experience for our artists and fans.
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:
The role is within the Digital Supply Chain (DSC) team of WMG The DSC team comprises the systems and tools that ingest, process, schedule and deliver Warner’s pre-release and catalog digital assets, copyrights, and clearances to accounts at over 270 providers, such as Apple Music and Spotify.
The DSC is also responsible for the watermarking, fingerprinting and attribution technology that is used to claim, monetize, and track Warner assets in User Generated Content (UGC).
All told, the DSC plays a pivotal role in delivering and safeguarding the works responsible for the vast majority of Warner Music recorded music revenue!
This role will collaborate closely with our North American Engineering teams to synchronize strategies, processes, and objectives. This is a hybrid position that requires you to work onsite at our Bangalore office a few days per week. As a Software Engineering Manager you will serve as technical people leader where you are hands-on and involved in designing and implementing greenfield projects with your team.
Here you’ll get to:
- 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
Responsbilities:
- End to end ownership of 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
- Hiring, team building, and performance management
- Collaborate closely with business stakeholders to ensure successful project management
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 have a deep knowledge of AWS or other large cloud computing environment
- 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
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.
Love this job and want to apply?
Click the “Apply” link at the top of the page, or apply directly with your LinkedIn. Applying with LinkedIn will import all of the information you put in your profile, but will still allow you to upload a resume and cover letter.
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. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and will evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, religious creed, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, marital status, medical condition as defined by state law (genetic characteristics or cancer), physical or mental disability, military service or veteran status, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local law.
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