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 Join our "DevOps for Content" revolution as we partner with global brands and agencies to transform their end-to-end creative workflows - from ideation to activation - to deliver AI-powered content services with speed, scale, and governance. We are inventing new applications and platforms to unlock the GenAI-powered Content Supply Chain. As the Director, Forward Deployed AI Architecture, you will lead and scale a best-in-class Forward Deployed AI Architect team, recruiting exceptional talent, defining architectural standards, and forging tight alignment with Product and Engineering. You will be instrumental in leading your team in translating innovative AI research into real-world use cases to unlock the capabilities of both first-party and third-party models, Adobe Firefly, GenStudio for Performance Marketing, and future products. This role requires deep technical and architectural expertise, the ability to lead enterprise customers and translate pioneering AI research into real-world impact. If you thrive in entrepreneurial environments and relish owning both technical vision and customer outcomes, this role is for you! What You'll Do
- Build & Develop a High-Performing Architect Team: Recruit, onboard, and mentor Forward Deployed Architects (FDAs) with diverse technical backgrounds, including software engineering, machine learning, and systems architecture.
- Set Technical Vision & Standards: Define modular patterns, reusable frameworks, and architecture playbooks that drive consistency, scalability, and speed across all engagements.
- Define the Creative & Product CI/CD Vision: Chart the vision of a fully automated CI/CD pipeline for creative automation for our customers and a continuous product feedback loop.
- Collaborate with Senior FDAs on Team Vision & Product Roadmap: Partner with senior Forward Deployed Architects to shape the team's strategic vision, product roadmap, and delivery methodology-ensuring alignment with business goals and scalable execution.
- Oversee Solution Delivery: Guide FDAs in designing, prototyping, and deploying enterprise-grade GenAI applications-balancing innovation with reusable assets and scalable patterns.
- Champion Executive Engagement: Serve as executive sponsor on strategic accounts, ensuring our solutions solve the right problems and deliver measurable business value.
- Collaboration with Core Teams: Partner with Adobe Product, Engineering, and Research to define the collaboration model of how the Forward Deployed organization will influence roadmaps, co-develop integrations, and deploy new features.
- Measure & Optimize Impact: Track team KPIs-time-to-value, technical reusability, and customer success metrics-and iterate on processes for continuous improvement.
What You Bring
- Proven AI & Architecture Leader - 15+ years in enterprise AI and solution architecture, with 10+ years building and scaling high-performing technical teams, and driving measurable business impact in creative/marketing automation and content supply chain solutions.
- Senior People Developer - Lead and grow a senior forward-deployed architecture team through mentorship, feedback, and performance management, ensuring that future leaders are developed via structured coaching, career planning, and succession preparation.
- Strategic Vision & Delivery Excellence - Define and execute long-term technical roadmaps that improve scalability, reduce risk, and ensure operational sustainability, while overseeing complex, cross-team engineering efforts from requirements through launch to deliver quality, speed, and business value.
- Innovation & Collaboration Driver - Foster a culture of experimentation and rapid prototyping to bring emerging AI capabilities into customer solutions, aligning closely with engineering, product, business, and security teams to execute at scale.
- Generative AI Expertise - Guide teams in delivering solutions leveraging LLMs: OpenAI GPT, Anthropic Claude, Meta Llama, Mistral || Diffusion Models: Adobe Firefly, Stable Diffusion, DALL*E, Midjourney || RAG & Search: Pinecone, Weaviate, FAISS, semantic search || AI Agent Frameworks: AutoGen, LangChain, LlamaIndex || Multimodal AI: Text, image, video, and audio
- Adobe Platform Leadership - Enable teams to leverage Adobe Experience Cloud, Adobe Creative Cloud, GenStudio for Performance Marketing, Custom Models, Object Composite, 3D, and third-party AI integrations.
- Cloud & DevOps Leadership - Oversee enterprise AI deployments on AWS and Azure, guiding DevOps best practices (containerization, CI/CD, infrastructure automation, and monitoring) to ensure scalability, resilience, and operational excellence.
- Customer-Centricity - Champion a culture of empathy, accountability, and customer-centric decision-making, ensuring customer outcomes remain central to every solution.
- Academic Credentials - Bachelor's in Computer Science, Engineering, AI, or related field; advanced degree preferred
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 positionis $179,300 -- $354,600 annually. Paywithin this range varies by work locationand 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.
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. State-Specific Notices: California: Fair Chance Ordinances Adobe will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with state and local laws and "fair chance" ordinances. Colorado: Application Window Notice If this role is open to hiring in Colorado (as listed on the job posting), 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. Massachusetts: Massachusetts Legal Notice It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability. Adobe is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunityemployer. 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. Learn more. Adobe aims to make Adobe.com accessible to any and all users. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation to navigate our website or complete the application process, email accommodations@adobe.comor call (408) 536-3015.
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