Senior Engineering Manager – Agentic Product

Adobe


Job Location:

San Francisco, CA - USA

Yearly Salary: $ 160200 - 320000
Posted on: 14 days ago
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

The Opportunity

Adobe is reimagining the future of creativity where generative AI intelligent agents and human imagination work hand in hand. As an Engineering Manager Agentic Product you will lead a team of engineers building Adobes Agentic Product: the AI-native experience that brings generative models creative intelligence and decades of differentiated Adobe capabilities together into a coherent high-quality product for creators used by hundreds of millions of people every day. Youll partner with Product and senior engineering leadership to define build and ship agentic experiences that meaningfully change how creators work.

Youll be responsible for the day-to-day execution and team health of an engineering squad delivering agent capabilities behaviors and experiences across surfaces. This is a hands-on engineering leadership role you are close to the code deeply invested in team growth and accountable for shipping quality software on a predictable cadence.

This is an opportunity to help build a new AI-native engineering team and practices that will define Adobes most visible AI product. The right person brings experience leading engineering teams that ship high-quality user-facing AI experiences a strong point of view on what great looks like for creative AI and the ability to raise the bar in a space that is moving fast.

What youll do

  • Lead day-to-day engineering execution for a team building Agentic Product capabilities coordinating delivery managing dependencies and maintaining a predictable shipping cadence across surfaces.

  • Grow and develop the engineers on your team through coaching goal-setting and hands-on technical engagement that builds both individual and team capability.

  • Partner with Agentic Product Management to translate product strategy into well-scoped engineering plans sequence delivery and surface technical constraints early.

  • Contribute to the design and delivery of agent capabilities spanning in-app creative workflows multi-step task execution and context-aware assistance across Adobes surfaces.

  • Help establish and maintain the quality bar for agent behavior what good looks like how its measured and how the team systematically improves it over time.

  • Collaborate with platform and infrastructure teams to ensure agent features are built with appropriate evals guardrails data protection and the reliability expected of a product at Adobes scale.

  • Stay current with emerging agentic standards and model capabilities and help your team adopt new tooling and practices without losing execution focus.

What youll need to succeed

  • A track record of leading engineering teams to ship complex high-quality user-facing AI products with strong execution discipline.

  • Solid experience with AI/ML product engineering including working knowledge of LLM APIs agent frameworks and the capabilities and limitations of current generative models in creative contexts.

  • Hands-on technical depth: you can engage meaningfully in architecture decisions review code and designs with a substantive point of view and recognize good and brittle agent behavior at the implementation level. You remain close to the code and the craft.

  • Strong product sensibility you have intuitions about user experience you can look at agent behavior and know when its good or brittle and you partner with PM and design as a peer.

  • Effective cross-functional collaboration with Product Design and platform engineering teams with a bias toward proactive communication and shared ownership.

  • Comfort operating in fast-moving ambiguous environments where the technology the competitive dynamics and the user expectations are all rapidly evolving.

  • Experience with the quality reliability and trust requirements that come with shipping AI features to a large consumer and enterprise audience.

  • Demonstrated ability to help teams adopt new ways of working internalize new tooling and stay ahead of a rapidly shifting technical landscape without losing execution focus.

  • Experience working with LLM providers or contributing to AI product strategy is strongly preferred.

About Adobe

Adobe empowers everyone to create through innovative platforms and tools that unleash creativity productivity and personalized customer experiences. Adobes industry-leading offerings including Adobe Acrobat Studio Adobe Express Adobe Firefly Creative Cloud Adobe Experience Platform Adobe Experience Manager and GenStudio enable people and businesses to turn ideas into impact powered by AI and driven by human ingenuity.

Our 30000 employees worldwide are creating the future and raising the bar as we drive the next decade of growth. Were on a mission to hire the very best and believe in creating a company culture where all employees are empowered to make an impact. At Adobe we believe that great ideas can come from anywhere in the organization. The next big idea could be yours.


Lets Adobe together

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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 $$320000 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.

In California the pay range for this position is $221000 - $320000 In New York the pay range for this position is $221000 - $320000 In Washington the pay range for this position is $200200 - $289900

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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California:

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Colorado:

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Massachusetts:

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Required Experience:

Manager

The OpportunityAdobe is reimagining the future of creativity where generative AI intelligent agents and human imagination work hand in hand. As an Engineering Manager Agentic Product you will lead a team of engineers building Adobes Agentic Product: the AI-native experience that brings generative m...