Sr Engineering Manager, Adobe Firefly

Adobe

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Work type
On-site
Location
San Jose · Seattle, WA
Salary
$221,000–$320,000 / yr
Posted
82 days ago

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Above market

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This role $270k
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This role pays more than 91% of similar roles. Most pay $162,412–$223,750 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $270k versus about $193k for comparable roles.

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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 · Sr Engineering Manager, Adobe Firefly

As a Senior Engineering Manager on the Adobe Firefly team, you will lead a high-performing engineering team responsible for delivering AI-powered creative features across web and services, driving growth and commercialization. You’ll partner with Product, Design, Growth, and Data teams to integrate generative AI capabilities into scalable workflows that deliver measurable customer impact. Your role involves championing AI-driven development practices, employing intelligent tooling and automation to accelerate innovation, and establishing a culture of analytics-driven decision-making. Key responsibilities include defining technical strategies for integrating AI capabilities, ensuring performance and scalability, and guiding architectural decisions for long-term extensibility. You will hire, mentor, and develop exceptional engineers while fostering a high-trust team environment. The ideal candidate has extensive experience in software engineering, leading teams delivering user-facing applications at scale, and building AI-powered features in production environments. Proficiency with modern web technologies such as React, TypeScript, GraphQL, and cloud-native architectures is essential.

What you'll do

  • Lead a high-performing engineering team to deliver AI-powered features across web and services.
  • Drive product execution from ideation through launch, focusing on scalable adoption and commercial viability.
  • Define roadmap priorities with cross-functional teams to align with engagement, retention, and revenue goals.
  • Own the technical strategy for integrating generative AI into user workflows that scale technically and commercially.
  • Champion AI-driven development practices and establish a culture of analytics-informed decision making.
  • Ensure product design and implementation prioritize performance, scalability, reliability, and observability from the start.

What we're looking for

  • 15+ years of software engineering experience with strong product development foundations.
  • 7+ years leading engineering teams delivering user-facing applications at scale.
  • Experience building and shipping AI-powered or ML-enabled features in production.
  • Strong understanding of analytics-driven product development, including experimentation frameworks.
  • Solid grounding in performance optimization, scalability, reliability, and observability.
  • Proven ability to translate ambiguous goals into structured technical plans with measurable outcomes.
  • Track record of mentoring engineers and fostering high-trust, high-accountability teams.

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