Engineering Manager – Forward Deployed Engineering

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🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

👮‍♀️ Software Engineering Manager

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Warner Music Group

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1920

📱 Media

💰 Post-IPO Debt on 2021-10

Media

Warner Music Group is a global music company that forms a collective of music creators and enthusiasts. The company is involved in recorded music, music publishing, and media brand development. Warner Music Group is dedicated to championing the individuality of artists and songwriters, empowering them through its iconic labels and distinctive brands. It hosts a wide variety of artists and is known for its commitment to creative freedom and limitless possibilities in the music industry.

📋 Description

• Lead, coach, hire, and manage a high-performing Forward Deployed Engineering team • Embed engineers in business units while maintaining centralized technical standards and reporting • Define and maintain the FDE technical operating playbook, including intake standards, routing rules, reusable delivery models, and engagement lifecycle • Create repeatable frameworks for intake routing, priority rubrics, and graduation gateways • Align engineers, product owners, business sponsors, and executive partners around technical standards, priorities, and roadmaps • Promote reusable assets, developer tooling, ADK/SDK patterns, internal asset marketplaces, and best practices • Set technical standards for AI agents and automation using enterprise frameworks including Databricks, Gemini Enterprise, Claude, and Airtable • Own security, compliance, Cost of AI telemetry, and lifecycle management from prototype through production or retirement • Translate business pain points into technical requirements and educate business units on working with technology • Report FDE capacity, outcomes, and aggregate AI costs to leadership • Define success metrics and operate intake SLAs, reuse, and outcomes as demand scales • Report to the Director of FDE & AI Optimization and partner with Data Engineers, Product Owners, and business sponsors

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in software engineering, solution architecture, data engineering, or AI/ML delivery • 2+ years managing engineers • Experience leading teams in a Forward Deployed Engineering, technical consulting, or heavily matrixed environment • Experience defining, scaling, and maintaining operational playbooks, intake standards, routing, and reusable delivery models • Ability to transform ambiguous processes into clear, repeatable frameworks • Experience championing reusable assets, developer tooling, ADK/SDK patterns, and best practices • Experience owning operational governance across the delivery lifecycle, including compliance, cost telemetry, and production graduation • Deep familiarity with modern LLM ecosystems, agentic workflows, and cloud data platforms such as Databricks, Gemini, Claude, and Cursor • Ability to distinguish short-term optimization opportunities from initiatives requiring a product roadmap • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills • Experience measuring engineering ROI and managing vendor, licensing, or infrastructure costs in production • Experience rolling out intake and routing models in matrixed enterprises • Hands-on delivery of agents, automation, or internal platforms on Databricks, Gemini Enterprise, Claude, Airtable, and/or Cursor • Experience establishing reuse paths and production ownership standards • Music, media, or entertainment industry experience is an additional qualification • Comfort operating as a player-coach

🏖️ Benefits

• Equal opportunity and inclusion-focused workplace • Full-time employment