Lead Forward Deployed Creative Technologist

The Opportunity
Every global brand is now a content factory. They need thousands of on‑brand asset variations every quarter — static, video, and increasingly 3D — and they need to ship them in days, not weeks. The customer who figures this out first wins the next decade of marketing.

We are the team that gets them there. We embed with enterprise customers, learn their content supply chain end‑to‑end, and craft custom AI‑powered creative workflows on top of Adobe Firefly Services and Firefly Creative Production (our node‑based workflow builder). We are not pre‑sales engineers. We are not consultants. We are

technical creators who ship .

You will own the bridge between what the customer’s CMO sketched on a whiteboard and what their creative team actually uses on Monday morning.

This role is for someone who is

maniacally focused on customer value . If the customer cannot point to time saved, dollars earned, or campaigns shipped because of your work, nothing else matters.

What you’ll do

Embed with enterprise customers. Learn their brand, creative team, content supply chain, and metrics the CMO cares about. Become a trusted advisor in 90 days.

Translate a customer brief into a working creative workflow. Compose Firefly Services APIs (Firefly, Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Express, Lightroom, Substance 3D, Audio/Video) and Workflow Builder nodes into something that actually runs. Build Figma plugins or design‑system integrations when the customer’s creative team works there.

Build thin front‑ends or conversational experiences and light back‑ends (App Builder, Azure Functions, AWS Lambda). Ship a working URL the customer uses this quarter, not a PowerPoint.

Build custom workflow nodes when existing ones fall short. Push reusable ones upstream.

Integrate with the customer’s stack — AEM Assets, Workfront, Frame.io, DAM, PIM, brand portal. Negotiate auth, debug API quirks, own edge cases.

Train the customer’s team. Document. Hand off cleanly so the customer self‑serves when you rotate to the next engagement.

Demo your work yourself — script, produce, edit. Show real creative outcomes, not abstract slides.

Feed the org. Reusable patterns become shared repo templates, workflow templates, or upstream WFB nodes. Every engagement makes the next one faster.

What you’ll bring

5–10 years straddling creative production AND technical building. You have shipped both: real creative work (motion, design, video, 3D, photography, brand systems) AND real technical work (apps, integrations, plugins, automation).

Creative content supply chain fluency. You understand how briefs become assets, how brand systems and design tokens work, how master files become channel variants, how creative teams hand off through Figma / PSD / INDD to DAM and review‑and‑approval.

Firefly Services + Workflow Builder fluency — or evidence you ramp on a new API surface in days, not months. Adobe ecosystem depth (AEM, Workfront, Frame.io, App Builder) is a strong plus, as is Figma plugin / API fluency.

Vibe‑coding with judgment. You use Cursor / Claude Code / Copilot daily and ship fast. You also know when AI output is wrong, when error handling is missing, when the prompt needs more context. Production code, not prototype‑only.

Extreme ownership and a GSD attitude. When the integration breaks before a CMO demo, you fix it — you don’t escalae. You own outcomes end‑to‑end, from broken auth to a missed brand‑compliance check. You ship ugly first and refuse to let process slow you down.

Extreme customer orientation. You hold the room with CMOs, creative directors, and heads of IT. You hear a customer pain and respond with a credible, impact‑focused, creative solution — not a science experiment. You translate tech to ROI without losing the engineers in the room.

A great nose for the money. You instinctively connect what you build to business outcomes the customer’s exec sponsor cares about — time‑to‑activation, cost per variant, brand‑compliance pass rate, campaign velocity.

A passion for coding and tinkering. A deep interest in generative AI and creative workflows. You explore adjacent orchestration tools — ComfyUI for visual workflow prototyping, n8n / Zapier / Power Automate for low‑code connectors, LangGraph/LangChain for agentic flows — because that’s how you stay sharp.

A public portfolio — link or PDF at application. Must show shipped creative work AND shipped technical artifacts. This is a hard requirement; applications without a portfolio will not be reviewed.

High EQ, low ego. Willingness to travel 10–20%.

What we’re not looking for

Backend‑only or distributed‑systems engineers — no creative practitioner background.

Pure designers or creatives — can’t stand to work on an integration.

ML / AI researchers — chasing frontier‑model R&D, not customer outcomes.

PMs / consultants who don’t ship — every person on this team writes code AND produces creative work themselves.

Expected Pay Range
U.S. pay range for this position: $159,200 – $301,600 annually. In California: $208,300 – $301,600. In New York: $208,300 – $301,600. Pay may vary by location and experience.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
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 protected characteristic.

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State‑Specific Notices
California: Adobe will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with state and local laws and “fair chance” ordinances.

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