# VP, Engineering

**Company**: UnitedMasters
**Location**: San Francisco, CA
**Experience**: executive
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $275K - 310K
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

## Job Description

UnitedMasters is seeking a Vice President of Engineering to lead and scale an engineering organization across backend, mobile (iOS/Android), web, data, QA, 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.

### Key Responsibilities

- Define the multi-year technical and AI strategy across the UnitedMasters 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 UnitedMasters 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.

### Organizational Leadership & Global Team Management

- Lead, mentor, and develop an engineering organization, including managers, and senior ICs.

- Own engineering competencies, performance systems, and technical excellence standards.

### Execution, Delivery & Productivity

- 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.

### Cross-Functional Partnership

- 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.

## Nice to Have

- Experience with large-scale content distribution, media ingestion pipelines, payments, subscription systems, or rights management.

- Familiarity with Python/Django, JavaScript/TypeScript, Kubernetes, event-driven architecture, or modern mobile frameworks.

- Strong understanding of data science, ML infrastructure, and experimentation platforms.

- Background in creator economy, digital media, or marketplace ecosystems.

## What We Offer

- Salary Hiring Range: $275K - 310K + bonus opportunity

## Skills

### Required
- AI/ML
- automation
- mobile innovation
- systems architecture
- data modeling
- platform-scale challenges
- agentic-development capabilities

### Nice to have
- Python/Django
- JavaScript/TypeScript
- Kubernetes
- event-driven architecture
- modern mobile frameworks
- data science
- ML infrastructure
- experimentation platforms

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