Vice President, Engineering (Content)

What you'll do:

• Set the overall technical vision and long-term strategy for the Content product engineering organization which includes client facing tools to create and manage music content.
• Lead, mentor, and scale the engineering team, including senior leaders, to ensure high performance and career growth.
• Drive technical excellence, operational maturity, and accountability for the systems underpinning our content products.
• Partner directly with executive leadership in Product, Design, and Global Operations to define and execute the product roadmap and business objectives.
• Oversee the architectural direction, ensuring systems are scalable, reliable, and secure for global operation.
• Champion a culture of continuous learning, innovation, and technical debt management across the organization.

Who you are:

• Seeking 18+ years of progressive engineering experience, with at least 5 years in senior leadership roles (Director/VP), including managing managers.
• Proven success in leading and scaling large, complex distributed systems and multi-product ecosystems.
• Deep expertise in modern software architecture, cloud technologies (AWS), and data infrastructure (e.g., Snowflake, Neo4j, Kafka).
• Experience driving organizational change, improving engineering practices, and delivering results in an agile environment.
• Demonstrated ability to engage with product management and executive stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical strategy.
• Experience with talent acquisition, performance management, and building diverse, high-performing teams.
• This is a hybrid role, where are teams are in office at least 3 days a week (core Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday in-person) in our King's Cross office.

What we give you:

• You join a vibrant global community with the opportunity to channel your passion every day 
• A modern office environment designed for you, empowering you to bring your best 
• Investment in your professional growth and development enabling you to thrive in our vibrant community 
• The space to accelerate progress, positively disrupt and create what happens next 
• We give you the platform to champion positive change, with the opportunity to contribute to our social impact, diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives 
• We provide an excellent range of benefits like private medical cover, a generous pension scheme, life assurance, income protection, plus loads of music industry perks. There’s also time off over winter break 

Equal Opportunities

As an active part of a culturally and socially diverse society, Sony Music’s aim is that our workforce is diverse and inclusive. Sony Music is an equal opportunity employer and supports workforce diversity.

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Please note that applicants must be at least 18 years of age.