Adobe-posted 2 days ago
Full-time • Manager
Hybrid • San Jose, CA
5,001-10,000 employees

Our Company Changing the world through digital experiences is what Adobe’s all about. We give everyone—from emerging artists to global brands—everything they need to design and deliver exceptional digital experiences! We’re passionate about empowering people to create beautiful and powerful images, videos, and apps, and transform how companies interact with customers across every screen. We’re on a mission to hire the very best and are committed to creating exceptional employee experiences where everyone is respected and has access to equal opportunity. We realize that new ideas can come from everywhere in the organization, and we know the next big idea could be yours! Role summary Lead Firefly Foundry’s AI architecture practice, building and managing a team of senior architects and engineers. Drive executive engagement with studio, streaming, sports, and gaming leaders while scaling Firefly adoption through people leadership, cross-functional alignment, and repeatable execution models. You’ll partner with enterprise, studio, streaming, network, sports, and gaming executives (CIO, CCO, CMO, CTO, Head of Post) to reinvent content pipelines with Firefly – taking initiatives from pilot to global rollout – using Firefly, Creative Cloud, and more importantly, groundbreaking new Foundry workflows and technologies.

  • Build & lead a team: Hire, develop, and mentor a high-performing group of architects; drive career growth, coaching, and resource allocation.
  • Executive engagement: Represent Firefly Foundry with C-suite leaders; guide your team to deliver executive design reviews, workshops, and thought leadership.
  • Codify best practices: Establish and evolve reference patterns for creative workflow blueprints, prompt/evaluation pipelines, campaign scalability, and governance guardrails.
  • Support complex problem-solving: Provide leadership and escalation frameworks as your team tackles brand/style constraints, fidelity, throughput, multilingual quality, and authenticity.
  • Integration strategy: Oversee enterprise integration across Creative Cloud apps (Photoshop, Premiere Pro, After Effects, Substance 3D, Frame.io), Firefly APIs/Services, Workfront, and DAM/MAM systems; empower your team to lead implementations.
  • Ecosystem leadership: Direct partner blueprint creation, validate delivery against Firefly Foundry standards, and scale through alliances.
  • Drive measurable value: Ensure your team translates creative and business priorities into ROI/TCO metrics that influence customer expansions.
  • 12+ years architecting and shipping large-scale platforms or content/ML systems; 3+ years leading enterprise GenAI /AI programs.
  • 5+ years in people leadership roles, managing technical teams (direct reports, hiring, coaching, career development).
  • Deep understanding of M&E production and marketing workflows (campaign bursts, trailer/versioning, localization, approvals, deliverables).
  • Expertise in GenAI solution patterns: prompt design & evaluation, guardrails, observability/measurement, vectorized retrieval, style constraints, and cost governance.
  • Strong technical depth across cloud, data/AI tooling, and software architectures; ability to evaluate design trade-offs without being the primary implementer.
  • Executive presence with studio leadership; exceptional written communication (1-pagers, decision records, reference designs).
  • Proven track record leading cross-functional programs from pilot to production with Product, Security/Privacy, Legal, and Customer Success partners.
  • Background in broadcast/OTT, sports, gaming, or live events; familiarity with post-production pipelines and marketing tech stacks.
  • Prior Field CTO/Field Engineering leadership or consulting partner experience.
  • Expansions driven by reference patterns, and executive satisfaction (C-suite CSAT).
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