Sr. Director of Engineering - Mixed Media Authoring

Our Company
Changing the world through digital experiences is what Adobe’s all about. We give everyone—from emerging artists to global brands—everything 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. 
We’re on a mission to hire the very best and are committed to creating exceptional employee experiences where everyone is respected and has access to equal opportunity. We realize that new ideas can come from everywhere in the organization, and we know the next big idea could be yours!

 

The Opportunity 

Adobe Express is redefining creativity for everyone by combining professional-grade 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!.

This is a pivotal leadership role responsible for advancing the core authoring capabilities and infrastructure that power Express, while embedding the latest in AI innovation to make creativity faster, easier, and more inspiring. You will build and scale a world-class engineering organization that delivers intuitive tools, resilient platforms, and new creative possibilities for our customers worldwide!

What You’ll Do
 

• Advance Creative Authoring: Deliver state-of-the-art multimedia creation tools across imaging, motion, typography, and composition that empower expressive storytelling at scale.

• Integrate Generative AI: Embed AI-powered features—such as generative imaging, intelligent layouts, and motion design—directly into the authoring experience to simplify complex tasks and expand what creators can achieve.

• Evolve Platform Foundations: Lead development of editor frameworks, rendering engines, document models, and asset pipelines that ensure seamless, real-time authoring across web and mobile.

• Enable Integrated Workflows: Create cohesive end-to-end user journeys where diverse media types—video, audio, graphics, text, and images—come together into unified, interactive designs.

• Deliver Scale & Reliability: 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, geo-distributed engineering team; attract top talent; and foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and technical excellence.

 What You'll Need to Succeed
 

• Proven leadership of large-scale 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).

• Ability to set and articulate a clear technical vision while driving disciplined execution across multiple teams and disciplines.

• Experience building diverse, high-performing 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.

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 Washington, the pay range for this position is $246,700 - $383,650

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.

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California:

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Colorado:

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Massachusetts:

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