Forward Deployed AI Engineer — Lifecycle Marketing
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, collaborating closely with them to develop tools and automations that fundamentally change their daily workflows. Your primary objective is to redesign and enhance repeatable processes 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' innovations, and establishing scalable best practices across GMI. The success of this role is measured by the tangible improvements made to how marketing professionals work.
Requirements
- 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.
- Ability to meet people where they are across different stages of AI fluency.
Nice To Haves
- Genuine excitement about AI developments and a proactive approach to exploring new capabilities.
- Opinions about AI usefulness based on testing.
- Deep knowledge of lifecycle marketing and ideas for its transformation.
- Previous experience working with a Lifecycle Marketing team, understanding their processes and inefficiencies.
- Desire to speed up or automate workflows, or replace existing LCM processes.
- Instinct for communication and ability to build trust and encourage adoption of tools.
- Patience with skeptics and ability to measure success by actual changes in work behavior.
- Intense curiosity, asking questions to understand workflows, friction, and goals before building.
- Preference for finding elegant fixes over forcing tools.
- 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 tools and automations central to marketing workflows.
- Redesign repeatable workflows for marketing managers (briefs, intake, reviews, approvals, launches, reporting, analytics).
- Act as connective tissue within the AISI team, sharing work and integrating others' contributions.
- Establish playbooks and patterns to scale good ideas across GMI.
- Work shoulder-to-shoulder with marketers across all functions.
- Improve the way people work.
Benefits
- Exceptional work environment recognized around the world.
- Colleagues committed to helping each other grow.
- Ongoing feedback through a unique Check-In approach.
- Opportunity to make an impact.
- Comprehensive benefits programs.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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