Forward Deployed AI Engineer — Lifecycle Marketing

Adobe•San Jose, CA

About The Position

Adobe's Growth Marketing & Insights (GMI) organization is undergoing a significant transformation, placing AI at the core of its operations. The Forward Deployed AI Engineer role is central to this reinvention. As part of the AI Strategy & Innovation (AISI) team, you will be embedded within the Lifecycle Marketing (LCM) team. Your primary responsibility will be to collaborate with LCM professionals, understand their workflows, and develop tools and automations that fundamentally change how they operate. This includes redesigning and transforming repeatable workflows such as briefs, intake, reviews, approvals, launches, reporting, and analytics. You will also contribute to the broader AISI team by sharing your work, integrating others' contributions, and helping to establish scalable best practices across GMI. The success of this role will be measured by the tangible improvements made to how marketers work.

Requirements

Genuine excitement about AI's current and future capabilities, with a proactive approach to exploring new developments.
Experience testing AI capabilities to distinguish useful applications from hype.
Deep knowledge of lifecycle marketing and ideas for its transformation.
Previous experience with a Lifecycle Marketing team, understanding their processes and inefficiencies.
A desire to speed up, automate, or replace existing LCM workflows.
Strong communication skills to build trust and encourage adoption of tools by non-technical audiences.
Patience with skeptics and the ability to measure success by actual changes in work behavior.
Intense curiosity to understand actual workflows, friction points, and underlying goals before building solutions.
Preference for elegant fixes over forcing tools where they don't belong.
5+ years of technical experience.
2+ years building and deploying AI applications.
Technical experience involving analytical thinking, creative problem-solving, and collaboration.
Expertise in AI development platforms and tooling (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor, agent frameworks, API integrations, Azure, AWS, etc.).
Expertise in Python, SQL, and at least one other common language.
Hands-on experience building AI-powered tools, automations, or agentic systems that change how real work gets done.
Strong communication skills with the ability to make technical ideas accessible to non-technical audiences.
Ability to manage multiple relationships and workstreams simultaneously, adapting to different levels of AI fluency.

Nice To Haves

Direct experience working inside an LCM team or marketing operations function.
Familiarity with Adobe's marketing technology ecosystem: Experience Manager, GenStudio for Performance Marketing, Adobe Analytics, Adobe Journey Optimizer, Workfront, etc.

Responsibilities

Make AI a central part of marketing operations by rebuilding workflows from first principles.
Embed with the Lifecycle Marketing (LCM) team to understand their craft and build tools and automations.
Redesign and transform repeatable workflows relied upon by marketing managers daily (briefs, intake, reviews, approvals, launches, reporting, analytics).
Act as connective tissue within the AISI team, sharing built solutions and incorporating others' work.
Establish playbooks and patterns to scale good ideas across all of GMI.
Measure success by the improvement in how people work.