Director, Engineering, Agentic Product

Adobe

Confirmed live today High trust

Quick summary

Work type
On-site
Location
San Francisco, CA
Employment
Full-time
Posted
39 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live today

Market check

Salary context

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $258k
$185k $321k
below market most similar roles pay here above market

This listing doesn't post a salary. Most similar roles pay $224,787–$290,637.

Based on 240 similar postings.

Employer

About Adobe

Adobe Inc. is a global software company known for creative and multimedia software products including Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, and its cloud-based Creative Cloud and Document Cloud suites. Industry: Creative & Digital Experience Software

Adobe currently has 282 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $148,100–$282,100 across 76 roles with salary data.

Most-posted roles

View all roles at Adobe

At a glance

TL;DR · Director, Engineering, Agentic Product

JOB TITLE: Director, Engineering – Agentic Product The Director, Engineering – Agentic Product leads the technical execution of Adobe's AI-native agentic experience, integrating generative models and creative intelligence into a coherent product for creators. This leadership role involves growing a new engineering team to build agent capabilities, including in-app creative workflows, multi-step task execution, and context-aware assistance. The successful candidate will define technical scope, drive execution velocity, and establish quality bars for agent behavior across various surfaces. Key requirements include deep experience in AI/ML product engineering, working knowledge of LLM APIs, and agent frameworks. The role requires hands-on technical expertise in architecture decisions and a strong product sensibility to navigate the complexities of shipping reliable, high-quality generative AI features that solve specific creative workflows for a large consumer and enterprise audience.

What you'll do

  • Lead the engineering execution of Adobe's Agentic Product to ensure high-quality outputs and predictable delivery.
  • Grow and lead a new engineering team responsible for building agentic product capabilities and technical strategy.
  • Partner with product management to translate strategy into executable engineering plans and technical scopes.
  • Design and deliver agent capabilities for in-app creative workflows and multi-step task execution.
  • Establish and maintain the quality bar for agent behavior and systematic performance measurement.
  • Coordinate with platform teams to implement evals, guardrails, data protection, and system reliability.
  • Maintain fluency in emerging agentic standards and model capabilities to evolve engineering practices.

What we're looking for

  • Proven track record of leading and scaling high-performing engineering teams to ship complex, high-quality user-facing AI products at scale.
  • Deep experience in AI/ML product engineering, including working knowledge of LLM APIs, agent frameworks, and generative model limitations.
  • Hands-on technical expertise to engage in architecture decisions, review designs, and recognize brittle agent behavior at the implementation level.
  • Strong product sensibility to evaluate user experience and partner with Product and Design teams as a peer.
  • Strong cross-functional leadership instincts with a history of effective partnership with Product, Design, and platform engineering teams.
  • Experience with the quality, reliability, and trust requirements of shipping AI features to large consumer and enterprise audiences.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead change management and drive continuous innovation in engineering processes and practices.
  • Experience working with LLM providers or contributing to AI product strategy (preferred).

More like this

Similar roles

Director, Engineering

Sony Group Corporation

Remote (CA) 131 days ago $240,000–$270,000
AWS Azure GCP Microservices Event-driven systems AI ML Cloud-native architectures Subscription management Identity management Recommendation systems GDPR CCPA Commerce platforms
10+ yrs exp Remote

Director, Engineering

Applied Materials

Santa Clara, CA 83 days ago
Systems Engineering Robotics Motion Control Automation Software Control Architecture Atmospheric Systems EFEM Design Qualification Verification and Validation Reliability Testing Root-Cause Analysis Electrical Design

Director, Engineering

L3Harris

Nashville, TN 84 days ago
Agile Linux Windows Virtualization Computer Networking Electrical Engineering Computer Science Hardware Integration R&D COTS GOTS Sensors Mission Systems Flight Test
10+ yrs exp

Director, Engineering

L3Harris

Nashville, TN 68 days ago
R&D Product Development Full Product Lifecycle Management Production Launch Factory Readiness ITAR Project Management Technical Roadmap Engineering Transformation Capacity Planning
10+ yrs exp

Director, AI Engineering

Humana

Louisville, KY +2 7 days ago $189,400–$260,500
Generative AI LLM Orchestration Python PyTorch TensorFlow AWS Azure GCP Retrieval-Augmented Generation Fine-tuning CI/CD Machine Learning System Design Observability Automated Testing Experiment Tracking
10+ yrs exp Hybrid