Head of R&D Growth Group

Artlist is where the creative arts meet technology. If there’s one thing we all have in common, it’s a love of music and film, which is why we build innovative products to help global brands and individual creators make amazing videos.

We do this by giving them the best music, footage, sound effects, and templates around. We also revolutionized the industry with a radical new music licensing model that has since become the global standard.

Artlist is now the go-to platform for over 26M users worldwide. They range from top-tier global brands like Google, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, and Calvin Klein to social creators, video editors, and more.

Our products:

• Artlist: an all-in-one platform for video creation, including high-quality and curated royalty-free music, SFX, footage, templates, plugins, and more. 
• Motion Array: the ultimate destination for creators, including high-quality video templates by the world’s top motion designers, presets, plugins, music, SFX, stock footage, graphics for design, motion graphics, and stock photos.

We're looking for a Head of R&D to join our amazing and growing R&D department.  

As the visionary Head of R&D Growth Group, you will lead a team of dedicated professionals, steering the strategic direction of research and development efforts, fostering a culture of creativity, and playing a pivotal role in driving groundbreaking solutions that contribute to the organization's growth and success.

Wake up for this:

• You’ll own the end-to-end tech roadmap for growth: from top-of-funnel acquisition hooks to post-purchase subscription and upgrade flows
• Lead three high-velocity R&D teams (each with its own team lead) to deliver revenue-driving features
• Architect and optimize user-management systems that scale to millions of accounts
• Design robust billing and subscription services that maximize retention and reduce churn
• Build and refine lead-management pipelines that feed marketing and sales in real time
• Collaborate closely with marketing, sales, and product to turn data insights into growth experiments
• Mentor and develop technical leaders, fostering a culture of innovation, ownership, and continuous learning

• 3+ years managing R&D team leads, coordinating cross-team deliveries and roadmaps
• 7+ years hands-on software development experience—combining backend expertise in Node.js, Python, Go, or .NET with solid frontend skills in React, Angular, or similar frameworks
• Deep expertise in server-side architecture, cloud (AWS) and databases: microservices, APIs, event-driven systems, designing and optimizing both relational (e.g. PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL (e.g. MongoDB, Redis) databases; hands-on with AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, and infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform or CloudFormation)
• Solid understanding of client-side frameworks (e.g. React, Angular) to partner effectively with front-end teams
• Strong analytical skills, comfortable defining metrics, interpreting data, and using insights to guide technical decisions
• Solid Agile/Scrum or Kanban process chops, with a data-driven approach to prioritization
• Excellent communication and mentorship skills: able to present technical strategy to execs, build teams, and grow high-performing engineers and leaders