Director, Emerging Products, Adobe Firefly Enterprise and GenStudio

San Jose, CA - USA

Yearly Salary: $ 166100 - 334500

Posted on: 30 days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Our Company

Changing the world through digital experiences is what Adobes all about. We give everyonefrom emerging artists to global brandseverything they need to design and deliver exceptional digital experiences! Were passionate about empowering people to create beautiful and powerful images videos and apps and transform how companies interact with customers across every screen.

Were 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!

The opportunity

Were hiring a Director of Emerging Products to launch and scale new enterprise offerings. This is a hands-on product leadership role. Youll incubate a portfolio of net-new services (e.g. domain-tuned models brand governance prompt ops digital-twin/asset automation workflow accelerators). You will work closely with Engineering and Research on design implementation experimentation and quality gates. You will collaborate with sales and marketing leaders to ensure the product is commercially successful and well supported.

Location:In-person San Jose CA (onsite presence is required)
Reports to:Varun Parmar

What youll do

Incubate new GenAI products: run rapid market tests proof-of-concepts and design partnerships with lighthouse customers across priority industries.
Build with Engineering: drive prototypes reference implementations and service hardening (latency reliability cost and safety).
User research: run customer interviews and hands-on trials with design partners; convert insights into clear product decisions.
Quality & safety evaluation: define metrics datasets and human-in-the-loop review for model/service performance content safety IP controls and watermarking.
Own product strategy & roadmapfor the new products; articulate the vision positioning and release product plan.
Ship enterprise-ready services: define requirements for safety privacy IP indemnification compliance observability RBAC quotas/limits and audit.
Model & data strategy: evaluate buy/build/partner for models fine-tuning RAG content safety watermarking and brand-style controls; drive evaluation frameworks and acceptance gates.
Monetization & packaging: partner with Finance on pricing & margin with Legal on terms and DPA/IP.
Customer advocacy: build a Customer Advisory Board and a pipeline of design-partner feedback; convert learnings into roadmap decisions.
Operational excellence: institute product operating rhythmsOKRs scorecards experiment backlogs and post-launch health reviews.
Thought leadership: represent Adobe at industry forums; publish POVs on responsible GenAI in the enterprise.
Build and scale a high-velocity startup inside the company culture:rapid experimentation MVP delivery measurable value realization.
Lead market discovery:identify unmet customer problems validate value propositions quantify business impact.

What youll need to succeed

7 years in product leadership (or product-adjacent GM roles) building platform or enterprise services; 5 years in AI/ML content creation or developer platforms.
Track record shipping 01 products and scaling them in B2B/enterprise.
Strong grasp ofgenerative AI fundamentals(LLMs diffusion tuning evaluation guardrails)governance(content safety IP watermarking) andenterprise controls(security privacy compliance observability).
Excellence in customer discovery value quantification and narrative-driven selling with VP/C-suite stakeholders.
Ability to lead without authority across Engineering Design Research Legal Sales and Customer Success.
Clear concise communicator; data-driven decision maker; comfortable with ambiguity and fast iteration.
Comfortable working in ambiguity rapid iteration and pivoting based on feedback (innovator mindset).
Comfort working in a build-and-scale dual mode: early-stage lean experimentation and later stage operational scale-up.
Entrepreneurial mindset with bias-for-action: you dont wait for perfectionyou launch and learn.
Customer-obsessed: you dig into customer problems and demand signals rather than simply launching features.

Working model

In-person San Jose
Hybrid with travel for key customer engagements design-partner workshops and internal planning (20%).

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 $$334500 annually. Paywithin this range varies by work locationand may also depend on job-related knowledge skillsand experience. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the job location during the hiring process.

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.

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Our CompanyChanging the world through digital experiences is what Adobes all about. We give everyonefrom emerging artists to global brandseverything they need to design and deliver exceptional digital experiences! Were passionate about empowering people to create beautiful and powerful images videos...