Engineering Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering

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. A little bit about our team: WMG Technology’s Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) team sits at the intersection of enterprise engineering and business enablement. We embed engineers with global business units — including Finance, HR, and our recorded music labels — to turn operational pain points into high-value AI and automation solutions. Working directly with the business, we run a centralized intake, routing, and delivery model so the business can move in days or weeks using existing tools, while larger foundational work graduates cleanly onto the product roadmap. We set a shared technical bar, reuse what already works, and keep AI deployments secure, cost-transparent, and maintainable. Your role: Reporting to the Director of FDE & AI Optimization, the Engineering Manager will lead a team of embedded engineers and own how FDE work is taken in, built, reused, and graduated. This is a hands-on people-manager role. You will coach engineers who sit inside lines of business while holding a centralized technical reporting structure, operating playbook, and delivery standard. You will partner with Data Engineer, Product Owner, and business sponsors to turn ambiguous requests into a clear, repeatable operating model — and to make sure FDE is a trusted path for AI optimization, not a shadow-IT queue. The ideal manager brings an equal blend of technical judgment and organizational empathy: comfortable in the tools, rigorous about routing and reuse, and able to help non-technical stakeholders translate operational pain points into work the team can actually ship. Here you’ll get to: About you: We’d love it if you also had: 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.   Copyright © 2025 Warner Music Inc.