Sr. Director, Engineering, Intelligence Platform

Senior Director Of Engineering

Adobe Intelligence Platform is the foundational AI infrastructure that powers agentic experiences across the Adobe product portfolio. The platform enables interoperability of agents, capabilities, and workflows across the Adobe Creative Cloud, Experience Cloud, Document Clouds, and future product lines. It is transforming Adobe from a suite of best-in-class tools into a unified, AI-native ecosystem.

This platform encompasses agentic orchestration, model gateway infrastructure, knowledge graph services, memory systems, AI registries, skill and capability catalogs, and the planning and reasoning layers that enable autonomous and semi-autonomous workflows at enterprise scale.

We are seeking a Senior Director of Engineering to own the engineering vision and execution of building the Adobe Intelligence Platform. This is a pivotal role to invent, embed, and scale the latest in AI innovation into Adobe's products. This role is highly visible and key to executing Adobe's vision to transform the way creators and their teams work and create.

What You'll Need to Succeed

• 12+ years of engineering experience, including significant time leading engineering organizations through ambiguity and change.
• Direct experience with platform or infrastructure work: building the layer other engineering teams depend on.
• Working fluency in AI/ML systems: evals, context management, model gateways, and adjacent areas.
• Technical depth with agentic frameworks and the operational patterns to manage them at scale.
• A track record of building or substantially reshaping an engineering org, including hiring, structuring teams, and developing leaders under them.
• Comfortable influencing progress with a platform in a shifting technical landscape.
• Strong cross-functional influence, with the ability to drive adoption of a platform across global teams.
• Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to inspire teams and express a compelling vision.

About Adobe

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

Our 30,000+ employees worldwide are creating the future and raising the bar as we drive the next decade of growth. We're 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.

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. Learn more.

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 position is $209,300 -- $429,350 annually. Pay within this range varies by work location and 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.

In California, the pay range for this position is $276,200 - $429,350

In New York, the pay range for this position is $276,200 - $429,350

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.