Head of Engineering

WME is seeking a Head of Engineering to support the transformation of our Product & Engineering organization. This team member will be supporting all facets of the WME Group business within North America.

You should be a strategic thoughtful and savvy engineering professional with a background in leading technology transformations and a passion for the entertainment industries.

You must be detail-oriented hands-on possess exceptional relationship-building skills and enjoy working in a highly iterative agile and fast-paced environment. Must be flexible and able to move quickly from one subject to another.

The role will report to WMEs SVP Product & Engineering based in Los Angeles.

Responsibilities

• Lead the evolution of WMEs legacy technology stack into modern modular cloud-ready systems.

• Serve as both architect and player-coach: designing systems prototyping solutions and writing code while guiding teams.

• Introduce modern engineering practices such as agile delivery CI/CD automated testing and infrastructure-as-code.

• Recruit mentor and develop engineers shaping a collaborative and growth-oriented engineering culture.

• Collaborate with Product Design and Business leaders to ensure technical decisions align with strategy and operational needs.

• Establish enterprise coding standards architecture patterns and governance frameworks that support long-term scalability and quality.

• Balance modernization with pragmatismevolving existing systems and processes incrementally to minimize disruption.

Requirements

• 15 years of software development experience with 8 years in architecture and solution design.

• Deep expertise (C# .NET Core/6 Web API Entity Framework) and familiarity with open-source and cloud-native technologies.

• Proven success leading large-scale modernization efforts and agile transformations in enterprise environments.

• Strong knowledge of cloud platforms (Azure preferred) APIs microservices data platforms and distributed systems.

• Demonstrated technical leadership coalition-building and communication skills across engineering and business stakeholders.

• Experience recruiting mentoring and developing high-performing engineering teams.

• Background in entertainment media or related industries strongly preferred.

Success in 12 Months

Within a year WMEs Head of Engineering will have established the foundation for both a modern technical platform and a high-performing engineering organization. Legacy systems will be evolving into modular cloud-ready services and agile and DevOps practices will be embedded in daily work. A strong collaborative engineering culture will be in placedelivering faster more reliably and in closer partnership with Product Design and the business.

Per local requirements and in the interest of transparency the hourly rate shown below reflects the prevalent current hiring range for this position. Hiring pay rates are based on a number of factors including location and may vary depending on job-related qualifications knowledge skills and experience. The company strives to provide locally competitive rewards packages which include base rate along with as applicable short- and long-term incentives growth and developmental opportunities and robust benefits such as health care retirement vacation and other paid time off and additional offerings.

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