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About the Role

As Senior Director of Engineering, you will lead engineering strategy and execution across Premiere Pro, After Effects, and the platform, helping shape the future of professional video creation. You will partner closely across Product, Design, Research, and Platform Engineering to accelerate innovation, modernize core technologies, and deliver intelligent experiences that delight millions of creators worldwide. This is a highly visible leadership role supporting one of Adobe's most strategic product portfolios. Success requires building high-performing teams, influencing across a complex matrixed organization, and driving technical and organizational excellence at scale.

Responsibilities

Define and drive the engineering strategy for DVA.
Lead the next generation of AI-native and agent-based creative experiences.
Integrate generative AI, intelligent agents, and multimodal workflows into creator experiences in partnership with Adobe AI Research and Firefly teams.
Lead engineering execution and advance extensibility frameworks, developer experiences, and AI-powered workflows while delivering seamless experiences across devices and creative surfaces.
Drive the technology strategy for Adobe's Digital Video & Audio portfolio, accelerating AI-powered experiences across Premiere Pro, After Effects, and the platform.
Modernize core video and rendering technologies, cloud services, collaboration capabilities, extensibility frameworks, and shared platform infrastructure while balancing architectural transformation with continuous product delivery.
Build and develop a high performing global engineering organization responsible for performance, scalability, reliability, and operational rigor.
Foster accountability, technical excellence, innovation, and strong execution while partnering across Adobe to align strategy, priorities, and platform direction.
Represent Adobe externally through executive engagement, technical leadership, and a clear vision for shaping the next era of creativity.

Requirements

Demonstrated ownership of business outcomes that delivered double-digit growth.
Experience expanding product value and adoption among new and emerging creators, with a strong focus on activation, retention, and business impact.
15+ years of software engineering experience building and shipping products with a worldwide reach.
Experience leading large distributed engineering organizations responsible for complex, business-critical platforms including large-scale desktop applications and cross-platform experiences used by millions of creators.
Proven experience integrating AI and machine learning technologies to enhance customer experiences, including generative AI, large language models, agent-based workflows, orchestration frameworks, inference systems, and multimodal experiences.
Demonstrated success in modernizing platforms and leading large-scale AI adoption initiatives across mature engineering organizations and codebases.
Experience improving engineering productivity through AI-assisted development and modern delivery practices.
Strong technical depth across native applications, cloud-connected platforms, distributed systems, web, mobile, AI infrastructure, and developer ecosystems.
Deep understanding of scalability, reliability, performance optimization, platform architecture, and operational excellence.
Experience supporting globally distributed products and services used at large scale.
Passion for creativity tools and a strong understanding of creator workflows, imaging technologies, graphics systems, extensibility, security, compliance, and enterprise requirements.
Proven ability to build and develop leadership teams across directors, managers, architects, and engineers.
Experience driving alignment across executive collaborators and partnering with organizations such as Premiere, Illustrator, and Firefly to deliver connected creative workflows.
Exceptional communication, organizational leadership, and influence skills.
Ability to inspire teams, shape strategy, and lead significant organizational change.

Skills

Generative AI
Large language models
Agent-based workflows
Orchestration frameworks
Inference systems
Multimodal experiences
AI-assisted development
Native applications
Cloud-connected platforms
Distributed systems
Web
Mobile
AI infrastructure
Developer ecosystems
Scalability
Reliability
Performance optimization
Platform architecture
Operational excellence
Creator workflows
Imaging technologies
Graphics systems
Extensibility
Security
Compliance
Enterprise requirements

Experience Level

15+ years of software engineering experience

Salary/Compensations

$209,300 - $429,350 annually
$276,200 - $429,350
$246,700 - $383,650

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits programs

About the Company

Adobe empowers everyone to create through innovative platforms and tools that unleash creativity, productivity and personalized customer experiences.
Adobe’s industry-leading offerings including Adobe Acrobat Studio, Adobe Express, Adobe Firefly, Creative Cloud, Adobe Experience Platform, Adobe Experience Manager, and GenStudio enable people and businesses to turn ideas into impact, powered by AI and driven by human ingenuity.
Our 30,000+ employees worldwide are creating the future and raising the bar as we drive the next decade of growth.
We’re on a mission to hire the very best and believe in creating a company culture where all employees are empowered to make an impact.
At Adobe, we believe that great ideas can come from anywhere in the organization.
The next big idea could be yours.
At Adobe, we believe in creating a company culture where all employees are empowered to make an impact.
Learn more about Adobe life, including our values and culture, focus on people, purpose and community, Adobe for All, comprehensive benefits programs, the stories we tell, the customers we serve, and how you can help us advance our mission of empowering everyone to create.

Equal Opportunity

Adobe is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.
We do not discriminate based on gender, race or color, ethnicity or national origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.
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