Senior Director of Engineering, Photoshop Ecosystem

Adobe•San Jose, CA

About The Position

The Opportunity Photoshop is one of the most iconic and commercially important products in software history. For more than 35 years, it has defined digital imaging and creative expression for professionals, businesses, and creators worldwide. Today, Photoshop powers millions of workflows and generates billions of dollars in annual revenue for Adobe. The future of creativity will be AI-native, collaborative, and available everywhere. Adobe is building the world's leading AI Factory for creativity, and Photoshop plays a central role in that vision. This is a high-impact leadership role supporting one of Adobe's most strategic businesses. You will lead an international engineering group spanning Photoshop Desktop, Photoshop Web, Photoshop Mobile, ecosystem services, platform evolution, and AI infrastructure. You will partner closely with leaders across Product Management, Design, Applied Research, Firefly AI, and Creative Cloud to define and deliver Photoshop's future direction. We are looking for an experienced engineering leader with strong technical judgment, operational rigor, and a track record of delivering products through major technology shifts. The ideal candidate has modernized mature architectures, scaled organizations, and integrated AI into customer experiences at global scale.

Requirements

Demonstrated ownership of business outcomes that delivered double-digit growth.
Experience expanding product value and adoption among new and emerging creators, with a strong focus on activation, retention, and business impact.
15+ years of software engineering experience building and shipping products with a worldwide reach.
Experience leading large distributed engineering organizations responsible for complex, business-critical platforms.
Proven experience integrating AI and machine learning technologies to enhance customer experiences, including generative AI, large language models, agent-based workflows, orchestration frameworks, inference systems, and multimodal experiences.
Demonstrated success modernizing platforms and leading large-scale AI adoption initiatives across mature engineering organizations and codebases.
Experience improving engineering productivity through AI-assisted development and modern delivery practices.
Strong technical depth across native applications, cloud-connected platforms, distributed systems, web, mobile, AI infrastructure, and developer ecosystems.
Deep understanding of scalability, reliability, performance optimization, platform architecture, and operational excellence.
Experience supporting globally distributed products and services used at large scale.
Passion for creativity tools and a strong understanding of creator workflows, imaging technologies, graphics systems, extensibility, security, compliance, and enterprise requirements.
Proven ability to build and develop leadership teams across directors, managers, architects, and engineers.
Experience driving alignment across executive collaborators and partnering with organizations such as Premiere, Illustrator, and Firefly to deliver connected creative workflows.
Exceptional communication, organizational leadership, and influence skills.
Ability to inspire teams, shape strategy, and lead significant organizational change.

Responsibilities

Define and drive the engineering strategy for Photoshop across.
Lead the next generation of AI-native and agent-based creative experiences.
Integrate generative AI, intelligent agents, and multimodal workflows into creator experiences in partnership with Adobe AI Research and Firefly teams.
Lead engineering execution and advance extensibility frameworks, developer experiences, and AI-powered workflows while delivering seamless experiences across devices and creative surfaces.
Build and scale Adobe's AI Factory strategy within Photoshop while modernizing imaging and rendering technologies, cloud-connected architectures, extensibility models, collaboration systems, ecosystem services, and AI-native workflows.
Balance long-term architectural investments with rapid product innovation.
Build and develop a high-performing global engineering organization responsible for performance, scalability, reliability, and operational rigor.
Foster accountability, technical excellence, innovation, and strong execution while partnering across Adobe to align strategy, priorities, and platform direction.
Represent Adobe externally through executive engagement, technical leadership, and a clear vision for shaping the next era of creativity.