Sr Engineering Manager - Agentic AI, Adobe Express at Adobe

The Opportunity!

Build the AI engine behind a creative product millions rely on every day.

We believe that a modern tool for building should be lightweight and easy to use, with low friction and outstanding performance. We are reimagining the creative process powered through a highly collaborative experience that works seamlessly across multiple surfaces.

Adobe Express is where ideas transform into creations at blazing speed. Behind every AI-powered moment our users tap into, there's a foundation and increasingly, that foundation is agentic. Prompt pipelines, tool calling, retrieval-augmented generation, multi-step reasoning, orchestration across models and services.

We're hiring an Engineering Manager to lead the team that builds and operates that foundation inside one of Adobe's flagship products. You will be leading a team that is building AI assistants and agentic workflows on top of LLMs, understanding what breaks at scale, and making the calls that turn a promising prototype into something millions of people actually use. You don't need to fine-tune models. But you need to deeply understand how they're wired together into something that works.

Curiosity is what will set you apart in this role. New models, new agent frameworks, new evaluation patterns, you are reading the papers, following the releases, and already thinking about what it means for your team next quarter. In a space that rewrites itself every few months, the people who thrive here are the ones who genuinely can't help but stay current.

And you know how to lead. You build high-performing teams, raise the bar on what good looks like, and create the conditions for engineers to do their best work. You manage up and across with clarity, translating technical complexity into crisp signal for stakeholders, and holding the line on what your team can realistically deliver. You're comfortable partnering across geographies and time zones, working fluidly with teams in the US, Europe, and In

What you'll do!

• Lead, grow, and develop a team of strong engineers by attracting top talent, mentoring through change, and crafting the conditions for great work.

• Drive the technical direction for the AI framework underpinning every AI experience in Adobe Express.

• Own delivery end-to-end, architecture choices, execution risk, dependencies, and clear signal to senior leadership on what matters.

• Partner closely with product, research, and development to turn ambitious AI ideas into systems that actually scale.

• Stay ahead of where the field is going with new models, new patterns, new evaluation methods and translate that into product impact.

• Build a team culture that's inclusive, candid, fast paced, and genuinely fun to be part of.

What you bring!

• 12+ years in software engineering, with 4+ years leading engineering teams through real product delivery.

• Hands-on experience building AI-powered features on top of LLMs, you have worked with prompt pipelines, tool calling, RAG, or agent orchestration frameworks and understand what it takes to move from prototype to production at scale. You deeply understand how models are wired together into something that works. Experience with fine-tuning models is a bonus.

• An insatiable curiosity about where AI is heading. You follow model releases, read the papers, track new frameworks, and translate what's emerging into decisions that matter for your team and product.

• A track record of driving AI adoption beyond a single team by defining success metrics, crafting governance practices, and enabling safe, scalable usage across an organization.

• Strong technical depth and the analytical instincts to make sharp calls with incomplete information.

• Experience leading in diverse, global, collaborative environments.

• A Bachelor's or advanced degree in Computer Science (or equivalent experience).

• A real sense of humor. The work is serious; we don't have to be.

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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