Vice President of Engineering, UnitedMasters

• We're looking for someone who has personally built these capabilities, not sponsored or inherited them from a central platform team
• This role is ideal for a systems-level thinker, an inspiring people leader, and an operator who thrives in a fast-moving, culture-driven environment
• 12+ years engineering experience with 5+ years leading orgs of 25+ engineers, including managers and senior ICs
• Proven success as a senior engineering leader at a scaled B2C, marketplace, or subscription-driven technology company
• Strong technical background with the ability to dive deep into systems architecture, data modeling, mobile performance, and platform-scale challenges
• Demonstrated experience deploying AI/ML in both customer-facing features and internal engineering workflows
• Track record of improving engineering velocity and developer experience through tooling, process, and automation
• Direct, hands-on experience building agentic-development capabilities from the ground up (must-have): methodology, tooling, context standards, and eval/safety frameworks you personally designed and shipped, with measurable developer-productivity gains you drove
• Exceptional communication skills and experience partnering with product and executive leadership
• A people-first leader who inspires teams and takes pride in developing others
• A visionary technologist who sees around corners and builds systems that scale with the business
• A business-oriented thinker who maps engineering strategy to real outcomes for artists and label partners
• A decisive operator who thrives in ambiguity and moves with urgency
• A culture-builder who values collaboration, inclusion, and excellence

Desirable

• UnitedMasters is seeking a Vice President of Engineering to lead and scale an engineering organization across backend, mobile (iOS/Android), web, data, QA, DevOps
• This leader will drive the architectural vision, delivery excellence, and technical culture behind our consumer subscription products and our growing B2B indie label business
• A core mandate of this role is leveraging AI to enhance both artist experience and engineering productivity
• You will champion AI-driven personalization, artist tools, recommendations, and automation while also deploying AI-enabled development tooling, test automation, and ML-driven operations to improve engineering velocity and quality
• This is a hands-on, build-it-from-the-ground-up mandate. A top first-year priority is establishing UnitedMasters' “paved path” for agentic software development: defining the agentic-development methodology, making the core architecture and tooling decisions, setting context and documentation standards, standing up the eval and safety framework, coaching engineers through adoption, and demonstrating measurable developer-productivity gains
• Define the multi-year technical and AI strategy across the UnitedMasters product ecosystem, championing new technologies, especially AI/ML, automation, and mobile innovation, to drive continuous improvement
• Build AI-powered customer-facing capabilities: artist insights, content recommendations, automated marketing, distribution optimization, and ML-driven discovery, monetization, and predictive tools
• Deliver measurable improvements from AI-enabled engineering, including gains in delivery speed, cycle time, and quality through capabilities such as code generation, automated testing, code review, debugging, and engineering operations automation
• Create and scale the paved path for AI-assisted and agentic software development across engineering: define the methodology and repeatable end-to-end workflows, determine how work is decomposed across sub-agents and tools, select and integrate the tooling, establish the supporting development practices and infrastructure, and drive adoption across the engineering organization
• Establish the technical foundations for reliable and secure AI agents in UnitedMasters products, including agent architecture, agent memory and state management, context engineering, RAG, tool use, an evaluation framework, human-in-the-loop controls, and defenses against prompt injection, data exfiltration, and other adversarial risks
• Drive architectural modernization and scale initiatives across our web applications, mobile apps, and internal tech platforms
• Ensure systems are reliable, performant, secure, and built for global scale
• Lead, mentor, and develop an engineering organization, including managers, and senior ICs
• Own engineering competencies, performance systems, and technical excellence standards
• Drive SDLC practices with strong CI/CD, automated testing, and AI-enabled developer tools
• Foster an environment where teams experiment and ship quickly, backed by strong measurement and rapid iteration
• Ensure predictable execution and high-quality delivery across all engineering pods
• Partner with Product and Design leadership on prioritization, planning, and resource allocation
• Own engineering commitments and ensure exceptional communication around timelines, risks, and dependencies
• Collaborate closely with Product, Design, Data Science, Revenue, Marketing, and Artist Relations teams
• Translate business goals into clear, actionable technical plans
• Improve expectations-setting and visibility with executive stakeholders
• Lead the engineering organization shaping the future of independent music
• Build AI-powered products and tools that help artists earn, grow, and be discovered
• Drive innovation at the intersection of technology, creativity, and culture
• Make a direct impact on millions of creators around the world