Senior Engineering Manager, AI & Machine Learning

What You Will Do

As an AI Manager at Adobe within GenStudio, you’ll lead, empower, and expand a high‑performing engineering team focused on building next‑generation AI‑enabled web and marketing solutions. You will bring strategic AI leadership alongside deep engineering guidance, partnering closely with product, design, data science, and operations to deliver innovative, scalable, and user‑centric experiences that drive performance marketing success for Adobe’s customers.

Your role will include:

Leadership & Team Development

• Inspire and guide a team of full‑stack engineers in architecting cutting‑edge web applications with integrated generative AI capabilities.
• Cultivate a culture of collaboration, psychological safety, continuous learning, experimentation, and cross‑disciplinary innovation.
• Mentor engineers in both technical craft and AI fluency; helping them grow in areas such as model integration, prompt engineering, and data‑driven UX.
• Lead AI‑specific performance development cycles, career planning, and skills roadmaps.

Technical & AI Strategy

• Drive the technical vision for how generative AI and machine learning models are incorporated into customer‑facing products, balancing creativity, performance, reliability, and ethics.
• Partner with data scientists and AI researchers to refine model selection, deployment, iteration, and monitoring in production web applications.
• Establish best practices for integrating LLMs, embeddings, evals, and real‑time AI services into front‑end and backend stacks.
• Oversee architectural decisions that ensure reliability, scalability, and responsiveness of AI‑powered experiences.

Cross‑Functional Collaboration

• Work closely with Product, Design, and Go‑to‑Market teams to translate strategic objectives into prioritized engineering and AI deliverables.
• Serve as a key contributor in cross‑disciplinary planning sessions that align AI use cases with Adobe GenStudio’s roadmap.
• Advocate for user‑centered design, accessibility standards, and performance optimization throughout the development lifecycle.

Process & Quality

• Champion engineering excellence through thoughtful code reviews, architectural discussions, and quality assurance practices.
• Implement processes that improve team velocity, delivery predictability, and operational visibility.
• Drive the adoption of AI development tools, CI/CD for models and apps, observability frameworks, and secure cloud workflows.

Experience & Qualifications

• Technical Leadership: 5+ years of strong engineering experience with modern web technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript/TypeScript, React or similar). Proven track record guiding engineering teams and delivering production‑quality software.
• AI & Generative Technology: Hands‑on experience developing, integrating, or shipping products with generative AI, large language models (LLMs), recommendation systems, or NLP/ML components. Familiarity with prompt engineering and AI‑centric software architecture.
• Architectural Fluency: Understanding of front‑end/build tools (Webpack, Babel, Vite), REST/GraphQL APIs, and experience with cloud environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• System Thinking: Able to assess trade‑offs in performance, maintainability, and scalability; comfortable defining patterns for async data flows, client–server interactions, and AI service orchestration.
• Process & People Skills: Experience establishing standards, leading cross‑functional teams, and elevating engineering practices. Strong mentorship and communication skills.
• AI Product Mindset: Demonstrated ability to shape AI features that are usable, transparent, safe, inclusive, and aligned to customer needs.

Personal Profile

• A people‑centric leader who fosters psychological safety, inclusion, and innovation.
• A strategic thinker who balances long‑term technical vision with tactical execution.
• Passionate about generative AI and its responsible application in real‑world products.
• Empathetic and articulate communicator who can translate complex technical or AI concepts for diverse audiences.
• Energetic collaborator who thrives in an environment of rapid learning, experimentation, and delivery.

About Adobe

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.

Let’s Adobe together

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.

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. Learn more.

Adobe aims to make our Careers website and recruiting process accessible to any and all users. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation to navigate our website or complete the application process, email [email protected] or call +1 408-536-3015.

AI Use Guidelines for Interviews:
Our interviews are designed to reflect your own skills and thinking. The use of AI or recording tools during live interviews is not permitted unless explicitly invited by the interviewer or approved in advance as part of a reasonable accommodation. If these tools are used inappropriately or in a way that misrepresents your work, your application may not move forward in the process.

At Adobe, we empower employees to innovate with AI — and we look for candidates eager to do the same. As part of the hiring experience, we provide clear guidance on where AI is encouraged during the process and where it’s restricted during live interviews. See how we think about AI in the hiring experience.

Expected Pay Range:

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several  U.S. geographic markets, and we pay differently based on those defined markets. The U.S. pay range for this position is $147,900 -- $293,250 annually. Pay within this range varies by work location and may also depend on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the job location during the hiring process.

In California, the pay range for this position is $202,500 - $293,250

At Adobe, for sales roles starting salaries are expressed as total target compensation (TTC = base + commission), and short-term incentives are in the form of sales commission plans.  Non-sales roles starting salaries are expressed as base salary and short-term incentives are in the form of the Annual Incentive Plan (AIP).

In addition, certain roles may be eligible for long-term incentives in the form of a new hire equity award.

State-Specific Notices:

California:

Fair Chance Ordinances

Adobe will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with state and local laws and “fair chance” ordinances.

Colorado:

Application Window Notice

If this role is open to hiring in Colorado (as listed on the job posting), the application window will remain open until at least the date and time stated above in Pacific Time, in compliance with Colorado pay transparency regulations. If this role does not have Colorado listed as a hiring location, no specific application window applies, and the posting may close at any time based on hiring needs.

Massachusetts:

Massachusetts Legal Notice

It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.

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