Senior Director of Engineering, Mixed Media Authoring

Adobe

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Work type
On-site
Location
San Francisco, CASan Jose, CASeattle, WALos Angeles, CA
Salary
$276,200–$429,350 / yr
Posted
179 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live 2 days ago

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Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $249k
This role $353k
$160k most similar roles pay here $458k

This role pays more than 94% of similar roles. Most pay $208,800–$289,050 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $353k versus about $249k for comparable roles.

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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 218 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $187,100–$270,950 across 216 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Director of Engineering, Mixed Media Authoring

Sr. Director of Engineering - Mixed Media Authoring will lead the engineering vision and execution for the Adobe Express platform. This leadership role focuses on building and scaling a large, geo-distributed organization to develop core authoring capabilities and infrastructure. The successful candidate will oversee the development of editor frameworks, rendering engines, document models, and asset pipelines to ensure high performance across web and mobile platforms. Key responsibilities include integrating generative AI features like intelligent layouts and motion design into the user experience while managing tools for imaging, typography, and composition. To succeed, the individual must possess deep expertise in graphics, motion and video authoring, or typography systems. The role requires a strong technical foundation in infrastructure to solve complex problems involving real-time multimedia creation, ensuring seamless integration of diverse media types like video, audio, and text into unified designs.

What does a Engineering Director earn?

Median $307000 from 31 postings across 22 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Deliver state-of-the-art multimedia creation tools for imaging, motion, typography, and composition.
  • Integrate generative AI features like intelligent layouts and motion design into the authoring experience.
  • Lead the development of editor frameworks, rendering engines, document models, and asset pipelines.
  • Create cohesive end-to-end user journeys that unify video, audio, graphics, text, and images.
  • Ensure high performance, low latency, and global reliability for millions of concurrent users.
  • Build and scale a large, geo-distributed engineering organization of over 200 people.
  • Mentor senior leaders and foster a culture of technical excellence and innovation.
  • Define and communicate the technical vision across multiple teams and disciplines.

What we're looking for

  • Proven leadership of large-scale engineering organizations of 200+ people across multiple geographies.
  • Experience delivering creative tools, multimedia platforms, or consumer applications at a global scale.
  • Deep expertise in graphics and imaging, motion and video authoring, or typography and layout systems.
  • Demonstrated success integrating AI/ML into product experiences, specifically generative or design intelligence capabilities.
  • Strong technical foundation in editor infrastructure including rendering systems, document models, and asset pipelines.
  • Ability to set a clear technical vision while driving disciplined execution across multiple teams.
  • Experience building diverse, high-performing teams and mentoring senior leaders.
  • Exceptional collaboration skills to align with design, product, research, and platform teams.

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