Creative Technologist, Firefly Foundry Job at Adobe in Seattle

The Opportunity

We are the market leader in software products and services for the creative & marketing ecosystem with Creative Cloud, Document Cloud, Express, Firefly and Experience Cloud.

Reporting to the Director of AI / ML Customer Engineering, New Business Ventures, a successful candidate will be a strong enterprise developer, embody a culture of extreme customer orientation, have a passion for coding & tinkering, share a deep interest in new technologies (, generative AI, creative workflows) and have a great nose for the money (, meaningful business impact).

You’ll have the opportunity to work with some of the world’s largest and most innovative brands on challenging, cutting-edge, unsolved content and AI challenges.

What you’ll do

• Leveraging discovery and workshops to identify Foundry use cases that unlock business value for customers.
• Working with internal and customer stakeholders to craft a vision and point of view that aligns Foundry solutions to the customer’s most strategic business and creative issues.
• Understand business & customer needs, and devise working prototypes.
• Defining the ideal technology architecture based on the customer’s current and desired future state.
• Script & record compelling technical demo videos that bring product truth to life.
• Influence product roadmaps. Validate and iterate with customers, partners and internal stakeholders. Gather technical product feedback from sales, customer success and professional services organizations.
• Serve as technical expert on emerging technologies in Adobe Firefly Services (APIs), Creative Cloud technologies, and corresponding Digital Experience APIs and technologies.
• Ideate and code creative enterprise product and workflow prototypes using knowledge of creative production, Adobe APIs, external APIs, and customer needs.
• Work across internal engineering and research teams to imagine and build prototypes using existing and new available technologies.
• Use other emerging technologies (, products, APIs) and synthesize technical trends and impact to Adobe (so-what, then-what).
• As needed, present product demos to Adobe senior leadership, represent Adobe at CEC / customer / events / developer audiences.

What you will need to succeed

Minimum technical skills: JavaScript / (server-side, front end), API tools (Postman, App Builder), HTML / CSS, React (Spectrum or similar), Python a plus, Low-code connectors a plus (PowerAutomate, Zapier, n8n, or similar).

• 10 years as a developer (full-stack preferred, familiar with API methodology / usage).
• 10 years hands on, practitioner experience with Creative Cloud (or competitive) applications in the creation of static, vector, 3D, and / or video content.

Deep technical and customer knowledge across creative, document, digital experience, generative AI, and workflow / low-code spaces.

Analytical and strategic problem solver, adept at using data to advise decisions.

Build the future mindset & around the corner thinking.

Experience in a technical pre-sales, technical consulting, developer / architect or creative environment a plus.

Experience across creative, document and marketing workflows (image editing, video, audio, 3D, analytics, work management, pdf).

Technical curiosity and a growth mindset evidenced by continuous learning and development.

Ability to working autonomously, track-record of delivering on-time.

Work-well across functions and engineering teams

Exceptional executive and customer communication skills, capable of conveying sophisticated technical and product ideas.

Strong executive presence and confidence presenting and engaging large stakeholder groups both virtually and in-person.

Ability to storyboard, produce, and edit your own demos using Pr, Ps, AEM, Workfront, Frame, Express etc.

Flexibility to travel as needed (max 20% of time).

Extreme owner mentality; founder-style work ethic

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several geographic markets, and we pay differently based on those defined markets. The pay range for this positionis $133,900 $242,000 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.

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.

State-Specific Notices

• California : Fair Chance Ordinances — Adobe will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with state and local laws and “fair chance” ordinances.
• Colorado : Application Window Notice — There is no deadline to apply to this job posting because Adobe accepts applications for this role on an ongoing basis. The posting will remain open based on hiring needs and position availability.
• Massachusetts : Massachusetts Legal Notice — It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.