The OpportunityJoin Adobe as a Senior Engineering Manager in San Jose, CA, and lead an ambitious team to deliver world-class engineering solutions! This is an outstanding opportunity to build the future of digital creativity and efficiency. Adobe is renowned for its innovative platforms and tools, and you will play a crucial role in maintaining our flawless standards and driving success.
What you'll Do- Lead the strategy and execution of a central AI Platform focused on Agentic AI, MCP, and A2A frameworks
- Partner with Product and Business leaders to translate priorities into scalable AI solutions and measurable outcomes
- Build reusable AI capabilities, orchestration frameworks, and developer platforms to drive adoption across teams
- Establish standards, governance, and guidelines for responsible and scalable AI development
- Hire, mentor, and lead a high-performing AI engineering team with a strong execution culture
What you need to succeed- 10+ years of engineering experience with strong leadership in building platform teams
- Proven experience in designing and delivering AI/ML or Generative AI platforms at scale
- Deep understanding of Agentic AI systems, including orchestration, tool usage, memory, and multi-agent collaboration (A2A)
- Experience with LLMs, RAG architectures, prompt orchestration, and evaluation frameworks
- Familiarity with MCP or similar tool/agent integration frameworks and building reusable AI components
- Strong system design skills across distributed systems, APIs, and scalable platform architectures
- Hands-on experience with cloud environments (AWS/Azure/GCP) and modern data/AI infrastructure
- Demonstrated ability to partner with Product and Business leaders to shape strategy and deliver outcomes
- Strong execution perspective with a track record of taking ambiguous AI initiatives to production
- Experience building and leading high-performing, fast-moving engineering teams
- Ability to operate effectively in a matrix organization and influence without authority
- Excellent communication and storytelling skills to align senior partners on AI strategy and investments
- Passion for staying at the forefront of AI innovation and applying it to real-world business problems
- People & Delivery Leadership
· Lead, mentor, and grow high-performing engineering teams, including
Engineering Managers, Senior Engineers, and cross-functional
contributors.
· Build a culture of innovation, accountability, inclusivity, and
continuous learning, aligned with Adobe’s values.
· Own execution excellence:
o Roadmap planning and prioritization
o Dependency and risk management
o Delivery predictability and operational rigor
· Conduct performance management, career development, and long-term
leadership succession planning.
Expected Pay Range:Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several U.S. geographic markets, and we pay differently based on those defined markets. The U.S. pay range for this positionis $160,200 -- $320,000 annually. Paywithin this range varies by work locationand may also depend on job-related knowledge, skills,and experience. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the job location during the hiring process.
In California, the pay range for this position is $221,000 - $320,000
At Adobe, for sales roles starting salaries are expressed as total target compensation (TTC = base + commission), and short-term incentives are in the form of sales commission plans. Non-sales roles starting salaries are expressed as base salary and short-term incentives are in the form of the Annual Incentive Plan (AIP).
In addition, certain roles may be eligible for long-term incentives in the form of a new hire equity award.
