Vice President of Engineering

Join UnitedMasters as the Vice President of Engineering, where you will lead and scale an engineering organization across various domains, drive architectural vision, and enhance artist experience through AI. This hands-on role requires a strong technical background, exceptional communication skills, and a proven track record in engineering leadership.

• Lead and scale an engineering organization across backend, mobile, web, data, QA, and DevOps, driving architectural vision and technical culture.
• Define and execute a multi-year technical and AI strategy, championing new technologies to drive continuous improvement and build AI-powered customer-facing capabilities.
• Establish the technical foundations for reliable and secure AI agents in UnitedMasters products, driving architectural modernization and scale initiatives across web applications and mobile apps.
• Strong technical background with the ability to dive deep into systems architecture, data modeling, mobile performance, and platform-scale challenges
• Exceptional communication skills and experience partnering with product and executive leadership
• Demonstrated experience deploying AI/ML in both customer-facing features and internal engineering workflows
• Familiarity with Python/Django, JavaScript/TypeScript, Kubernetes, event-driven architecture, or modern mobile frameworks
• 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
• Proven success as a senior engineering leader at a scaled B2C, marketplace, or subscription-driven technology company
• 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
• Track record of improving engineering velocity and developer experience through tooling, process, and automation
• Background in creator economy, digital media, or marketplace ecosystems
• Experience with large-scale content distribution, media ingestion pipelines, payments, subscription systems, or rights management
• Strong understanding of data science, ML infrastructure, and experimentation platforms
• A culture-builder who values collaboration, inclusion, and excellence
• 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