Senior Engineering Manager | iOS Video Applications
San Jose, CA - USA
Job Summary
The Opportunity
Our iOS mobile team is part of the Adobe Video organization where we build video creation and editing experiences for storytellers across desktop mobile and web. We move fast care deeply about craftand were hiring a Senior Engineering Manager to help lead that work on iOS!
We want someone who will help define both what we build and how we build it. That includes establishing modern engineering practices and embracing AIassisted development to improve quality and speed. Were looking for a manager who empowers their team to ship great iOS experiences while encouraging use of AI tools to move fast.
We think youll thrive here if you bring people leadership and technical fluency. You communicate clearly across disciplines. And you enjoy working through tradeoffs with engineers and product partners to deliver the best outcome for customers.
What Youll Do
Youll lead grow and support a talented team of senior iOS engineers. Together we build creative userfacing featuresfrom early product and interaction design through execution and production quality. Youll set technical and quality standards for the iOS organization. That means ensuring architectural coherence maintainability and performance across the codebase.
We also need someone who can coach engineers on effective use of AIassisted development tools and agentic workflows. Youll help the team accelerate responsibly while maintaining rigorous standards for code quality correctness and security.
Youll partner with Product Design and Engineering leaders to shape product strategy. We want a collaborator who brings a clear technical and UX perspectivenot just resourcing or delivery plans. Youll guide the team in making thoughtful scope and priority decisions balancing user impact velocity and longterm technical health.
We believe great products come from safetoexperiment cultures. Youll create that environment: validating assumptions early learning from real user feedback and treating each release as a chance to improve. Youll develop talent through regular feedback mentorship and career growth conversations. And youll represent our iOS team in orglevel planning advocating for investment technical excellence and a usercentered approach!
What Were Looking For
10 years of experience shipping Apple applications with significant time delivering complex productionscale iOS products.
Experience managing and growing teams of senior engineers including hiring performance management coaching and career development.
Technical fluency in Swift SwiftUI UIKit and the iOS SDK. You can review guide and influence architectural decisions even when not coding daily.
Product instincts and UX sensibilityfamiliarity with Apple Human Interface Guidelines a keen eye for interaction quality and a feel for why details matter to users.
Comfort operating in ambiguous problem spaces. You help teams move from unclear problem statements to crisp execution plans.
Experience using AIassisted development tools at a team levelsetting expectations workflows and guardrails for AIgenerated output.
A clear compelling communicator who translates between technical product and design perspectives.
An understanding of mobile video editing workflowsor the curiosity and drive to develop that understanding quickly.
Even Better If You Have
A track record of influencing product direction technical strategy or design outcomes beyond your immediate team. Experience evolving engineering processes on growing teams (quality reliability release management). Experience building creative tools video production software or editing workflows. Handson experience using video editing applications with an appreciation for creative users needs. Familiarity with modern AIenabled developer tooling and practices.
Why Adobe Video
We offer a small-team environment with big ownership youll work at the intersection of world-class creative software and AI-augmented engineering. We invest in our people with industry-leading benefits including comprehensive health coverage generous equity flexible time off and access to Adobes full suite of creative tools. We believe diverse perspectives make our products better and were committed to building a team where everyone can do the best work of their careers.
Are you ready to shape tools used by millions of creators worldwide Wed love to hear from you
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.
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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
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Required Experience:
Manager