Director of Engineering

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!

Opportunity

Digital Experience (DX) () is a USD 5B+ business serving the needs of enterprise businesses including 95%+ of fortune 500 organizations.

Adobe Marketo and Adobe Journey Optimizer B2B, within Adobe DX are the world's largest marketing automation platform, providing solutions that lets enterprises attract, segment and nurture customers - from discovery to biggest fan. It lets enterprises do effective engagement through various surfaces and touchpoints.

We are seeking a dedicated and visionary Director of Engineering to lead and encourage our versatile engineering organization. Seeking a leader skilled in both technical expertise and effective communication, with strong leadership abilities, motivation skills, and a strategic, forward-thinking approach.

The ideal candidate will be instrumental in shaping our technology roadmap, driving technical excellence, and fostering a culture of continuous learning, innovation and high performance. You will lead a dynamic team of engineers, engineering managers, and architects, overseeing the development and delivery of large-scale applications, microservices, and innovative AI/GenAI solutions that push the boundaries of what's possible.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and champion the technical vision and strategy aligned with the company's overall business objectives
• Provide proactive thought leadership, identifying emerging technologies, market trends, and exciting opportunities (e.g., advanced AI/GenAI applications)
• Cultivate an environment of ownership, innovation, challenge the status quo and open up the boundaries in every aspect of development
• Drive architectural decisions for large-scale, complex applications and services, ensuring scalability, reliability, maintainability, security, and performance
• Drive the end-to-end development and operations of system comprising hundreds of microservices and distributed systems
• Lead the successful delivery of multiple concurrent projects, ensuring high quality, technical integrity, and timely delivery
• Demonstrate strong understanding of business to translate technical decisions into clear business and customer impact
• Maintain deep practical understanding of modern software development methodologies, microservices architectures, cloud-native principles, and data engineering
• Lead teams to deliver AI-powered features for customers and leverage AI for internal team productivity
• Provide expert guidance and hands-on mentorship on complex technical challenges
• Lead, mentor, and inspire a diverse team of engineers, managers, and architects, fostering a culture of high performance, accountability and collaboration
• Develop and implement strategies for talent acquisition, retention, and professional growth within engineering
• Cultivate strong relationships with partners such as Product Management, Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success
• Collaborate effectively with multi-functional leaders to translate business requirements into technical solutions and deliver on shared goals
• Communicate complex technical concepts and strategies clearly and concisely to both technical and non-technical audiences, influencing decisions and building consensus
• Act as a primary liaison for technical matters, representing the engineering organization internally and externally

What you need to succeed

• Passion and love of what you do!
• 18+ years of experience working in software development and engineering leadership roles, with a proven track record of delivering multiple complex, high-impact projects
• Exceptional understanding of the full software development lifecycle, from concept to deployment and operations
• Deep knowledge of system design, data structures, algorithms, and software engineering methodologies
• Deep experiences with microservices architectures, distributed systems, and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Possess strong understanding of Artificial Intelligence (AI), particularly Generative AI (GenAI) and Agents
• Proven experience in leading teams to deliver AI-powered features for customers and using AI for internal team productivity will be an added advantage
• Proficiency in modern programming languages and frameworks relevant to large-scale web/backend development and AI (e.g., Java, React, Python)
• Outstanding communication, interpersonal, and presentation skills. Ability to articulate complex technical ideas clearly and persuasively
• Strong leadership presence with the ability to inspire, motivate, and empower large teams
• Proven ability to manage and influence stakeholders at all levels of the organization
• Exceptional problem-solving skills and a pragmatic approach to technical challenges
• Thrive in a fast-paced, evolving environment, capable of quickly changing directions and learning new technologies and domains
• Ambitious and not afraid to tackle unknowns, demonstrates a strong bias to action
• Proactive, self-starter with a strong sense of ownership and urgency
• Demonstrated ability to drive innovation and lead change
• Bachelor's or Master's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.

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