Director, UI Development

Adobe

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San Jose, CA
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39 days ago
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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

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TL;DR · Director, UI Development

The Director, UI Development will join the Product Engagement Systems engineering team to lead and grow a high-performing group delivering cross-app in-product experiences. This role involves driving end-to-end execution from ideation through scaled adoption while partnering with Product, Design, Growth, and Data teams to define roadmap priorities for engagement and revenue. Key responsibilities include owning technical strategies for rapid prototyping, establishing analytics-driven development cultures, and ensuring performance, scalability, and reliability in product designs. The successful candidate will utilize modern web technologies including React, Web components, TypeScript, GraphQL, and cloud-native architectures. This position solves complex business problems by translating commercialization goals into structured technical plans, managing experimentation frameworks, and mentoring engineers to build scalable, commercially viable user workflows within a large-scale software environment.

What you'll do

  • Lead and grow a high-performing engineering team to deliver cross-app in-product experiences.
  • Drive end-to-end execution from initial ideation through experimentation, launch, and scaled adoption.
  • Partner with Product, Design, Growth, and Data teams to define roadmap priorities for engagement and revenue.
  • Own the technical strategy for rapid prototyping and integrating scalable, commercially viable user workflows.
  • Establish a culture of analytics-driven development by embedding telemetry and measurable success metrics into features.
  • Ensure performance, scalability, reliability, and observability are integrated into product design from the outset.
  • Translate business strategy and commercialization goals into clear technical execution plans for growth initiatives.
  • Hire, mentor, and develop engineers while fostering a culture of ownership and continuous improvement.

What we're looking for

  • BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
  • 15+ years of software engineering experience (preferably Front end technologies).
  • 7+ years of experience leading engineering teams delivering user facing applications at scale.
  • Demonstrated experience supporting product growth, adoption, and commercialization initiatives.
  • Strong understanding of analytics driven product development including experimentation frameworks and telemetry.
  • Solid grounding in performance optimization, scalability, and production reliability.
  • Experience with modern web technologies such as React, Web components, TypeScript, GraphQL, and cloud native architectures.
  • Proven ability to translate ambiguous product and business goals into structured technical plans with measurable outcomes.

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