EMPIRE operates a vertically integrated music business spanning label services, distribution, and publishing, backed by custom software for royalty tracking and financial transparency. The tech stack spans React/TypeScript frontends, Laravel backends, and creative tools (Adobe suite, Blender, Cinema 4D), with active projects focused on backend finance-system integrations and music-content-management scaling — signaling operational maturation beyond A&R into enterprise financial infrastructure. Hiring velocity is accelerating across marketing and engineering, with particular demand for backend systems and payment-workflow expertise.
Notable leadership hires: Live Events Director
EMPIRE is a privately held record company founded in 2010 and based in San Francisco. The company operates three core business arms: label services (artist development and roster management), distribution (getting music to streaming platforms and retailers), and publishing (managing songwriter and composition rights). EMPIRE has expanded to offices across Africa, Europe, Asia, and South America. The company differentiates through artist-favorable deal structures and proprietary software for analytics, recoupment tracking, and royalty management. Current product focus includes backend finance-system architecture, third-party payment integrations, and scaling content-management systems to support growing global catalog and partner volumes.
Frontend: React, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML5. Backend: Laravel, PHP. Testing: Jest, React Testing Library. Finance/ops: NetSuite, Brex, Bill.com. Creative: Adobe suite (Photoshop, Premiere Pro, After Effects, Illustrator, InDesign), Blender, Cinema 4D, Sora, Runway, Midjourney. Distribution: Spotify, Apple Music, SoundCloud, Tidal.
Active projects include backend finance-system architecture, third-party financial integrations, expense and payment approval workflows, music content-management platform scaling, backend performance optimization, data migrations, and testing ingestion tools. Strategic focus: maximizing artist revenue and identifying emerging revenue streams.
EMPIRE's technology stack, projects, and hiring signals are inferred from public hiring and company data — career pages, public listings, and company web presence — then clustered and de-duplicated. Figures are estimates that refresh over time. Read our full methodology →
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