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About the Role

UnitedMasters is seeking a Vice President of Engineering to lead and scale an engineering organization across backend, mobile (iOS/Android), web, data, QA, and 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. This is a hands-on, build-it-from-the-ground-up mandate focused on establishing UnitedMasters' “paved path” for agentic software development.

Responsibilities

• Define the multi-year technical and AI strategy across the United Masters 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 United Masters 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.

Requirements

• 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.

Skills

• AI/ML
• Automation
• Mobile innovation
• AI-assisted development
• Agentic software development
• CI/CD
• Automated testing
• AI-enabled developer tools
• Python/Django
• JavaScript/TypeScript
• Kubernetes
• Event-driven architecture
• Modern mobile frameworks
• Data science
• ML infrastructure
• Experimentation platforms

Location

• NY/CA

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• Vice President
• 12+ years engineering experience
• 5+ years leading orgs of 25+ engineers

Salary/Compensations

• $275K - 310K + bonus opportunity

Benefits

• Bonus opportunity
• 401(k) match

About the Company

• UnitedMasters is building the world’s most powerful marketplace connecting artists, brands, and fans—empowering over 1.5M independent artists to earn, grow, and own their future.
• We’ve reinvented music distribution by putting artists first: enabling emerging creators to distribute directly to DSPs while maintaining ownership of their masters and up to 100% of royalties.
• Our team is a diverse group of engineers, designers, product thinkers, and storytellers united by a shared mission to help artists succeed on their own terms.
• We combine deep expertise in technology, music, and culture to build products that unlock opportunity for creators everywhere.
• With a collaborative, creator-led mindset, we work closely with Translation, our in-house creative agency—to drive innovation at the intersection of culture and tech.
• Backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Alphabet (Google), Apple, and Disney, we are scaling rapidly across our B2C subscription business and Indie Label B2B platform.
• UnitedMasters empowers brands and artists to forge authentic connections with audiences at scale by bringing together culture, technology and storytelling.
• UnitedMasters has taken the bold step of building a music distribution service that, radically, puts artists first—disrupting the legacy music business by letting up-and-coming artists distribute their music directly to fans through streaming services while maintaining ownership of their Masters and up to 100% of royalties.
• UnitedMasters has over 1.5 million artists on its platform and is growing rapidly.
• Brands like Diageo, Ally, and ESPN come to UnitedMasters to partner with these artists and play a role in moving culture forward.
• In the past year, UnitedMasters subscribers have grown rapidly.
• With $170M raised to date, UnitedMasters is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Apple, Alphabet (aka Google), and Disney amongst others.