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:

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Build, coach, and manage a high-performing FDE team, including hiring, performance, and embedding engineers in specific lines of business while keeping them aligned to core tech standards.

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Define, scale, and maintain the FDE technical operating playbook — intake standards, routing rules, reusable delivery mode