Sr Engineering Manager, Firefly

Overview

Join the Adobe Firefly team as a Senior Engineering Manager and help shape the future of AI powered creative experiences.

This role sits at the intersection of product innovation, generative AI, and business impact. You will lead a high performing engineering team responsible for delivering differentiated AI powered features while driving growth, adoption, and commercialization of Firefly.

As a technology leader, you will partner closely with Product, Design, Growth, and Data teams to integrate generative AI capabilities into compelling workflows that deliver measurable customer and revenue impact. You will champion AI driven development and analytics informed decision making to ensure we build high value features that scale technically and commercially.

This is a high visibility opportunity to influence product direction, engineering standards, and Firefly’s long term growth trajectory.

• Lead and grow a high performing engineering team delivering AI powered Firefly experiences across web and services.
• Drive end to end product execution from ideation through experimentation, launch, and scaled adoption.
• Partner with Product, Design, Growth, and Data to define roadmap priorities aligned with engagement, retention, and revenue outcomes.
• Own the technical strategy for integrating generative AI capabilities into compelling, scalable, and commercially viable user workflows.
• Champion AI driven development practices, employing intelligent tooling and automation to accelerate innovation and improve engineering productivity.
• Establish a culture of analytics driven development, embedding experimentation, telemetry, and measurable success metrics into every feature.
• Ensure performance, scalability, reliability, and observability are built into product design and implementation from the outset.
• Guide architectural decisions that support long term extensibility, cost efficiency, and global scale as Firefly adoption grows.
• Translate business strategy and commercialization goals into clear technical execution plans, supporting monetization models and growth initiatives.
• Hire, mentor, and develop exceptional engineers while fostering a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement.

• BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• 15+ years of software engineering experience with strong product development foundations.
• 7+ years of experience leading engineering teams delivering user facing applications at scale.
• Experience building and shipping AI powered or ML enabled features in production environments.
• Demonstrated experience supporting product growth, adoption, and commercialization initiatives.
• Strong understanding of analytics driven product development including experimentation frameworks and telemetry.
• Solid grounding in performance optimization, scalability, and production reliability.
• Experience with modern web technologies such as React, Type Script, Graph
  
  QL, and cloud native architectures.
• Proven ability to translate ambiguous product and business goals into structured technical plans with measurable outcomes.
• Track record of mentoring engineers and building high trust, high accountability teams.

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.

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