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Adobe Inc. is hiring: Sr. Director of Engineering - Mixed Media Authoring (San F

Adobe Inc., San Francisco, CA, US

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Changing the world through digital experiences is what Adobe's all about. We give everyonefrom emerging artists to global brandseverything 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. Adobe Express is redefining creativity for everyone by combining professionalgrade creative power with simplicity, speed, and intelligence. As Senior Director of Engineering for Mixed Media Authoring, you will lead the engineering vision and execution behind how millions of creators combine text, images, graphics, motion, and generative AI into engaging multimedia content! You will build and scale a worldclass engineering organization that delivers intuitive tools, resilient platforms, and new creative possibilities for our customers worldwide! Advance Creative Authoring: Deliver stateoftheart multimedia creation tools across imaging, motion, typography, and composition that empower expressive storytelling at scale. Evolve Platform Foundations: Lead development of editor frameworks, rendering engines, document models, and asset pipelines that ensure seamless, realtime authoring across web and mobile. Create cohesive endtoend user journeys where diverse media typesvideo, audio, graphics, text, and imagescome together into unified, interactive designs. Ensure Express authoring experiences operate with high performance, low latency, and global reliability for millions of users. Inspire & Grow Talent: Lead and mentor a large, geodistributed engineering team; Proven leadership of largescale engineering organizations (200+) across geos, delivering creative tools, multimedia platforms, or consumer applications at global scale. Deep expertise in at least one domain such as graphics and imaging, motion and video authoring, or typography and layout systems, with breadth across adjacent areas. Demonstrated success integrating AI/ML into product experiences, particularly generative or design intelligence capabilities. Strong technical foundation in editor infrastructure (rendering systems, document models, asset pipelines, collaborative authoring). Experience building diverse, highperforming teams, inspiring senior leaders, and creating an inclusive culture of innovation. Exceptional collaboration and influencing skills, with the ability to align across design, product, research, and platforms. At Adobe, for sales roles starting salaries are expressed as total target compensation (TTC = base + commission), and shortterm incentives are in the form of sales commission plans. In addition, certain roles may be eligible for longterm incentives in the form of a new hire equity award. Adobe will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with state and local laws and fair chance ordinances. If this role is open to hiring in Colorado, the application window will remain open until at least the date and time stated above in Pacific Time, in compliance with Colorado pay transparency regulations. If this role does not have Colorado listed as a hiring location, no specific application window applies, and the posting may close at any time based on hiring needs. Adobe is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on gender, race or color, ethnicity or national origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other applicable characteristics protected by law. Adobe aims to make Adobe.If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation to navigate our website or complete the application process, email accommodations@adobe.