Senior Director Engineering

Role Overview

• Lead the architecture and development of Adobe's agentic harness for both our 1st and 3rd party agentic solutions
• Drive coherence across a federated engineering landscape, aligning teams building multiple components of the catalog of capabilities
• Grow and lead multiple engineering teams across Adobe's agentic platform and packaging functions, driving technical strategy, team health, and execution velocity
• Own the engineering roadmap for packaging and publishing Adobe's agentic capabilities (tools, skills, MCPs) across third-party AI surfaces
• Partner closely with the Agentic Product Management leads for 1P and 3P to define technical scope, sequence delivery, and translate product strategy into executable engineering plans
• Lead the design and delivery of multi-tier agentic experiences spanning in-app AI assistants, desktop workflow automation, cloud-based orchestration, and long-running enterprise pipelines
• Ensure Adobe's agentic packages meet the technical standards, reliability, and quality bar required for launch on major partner platforms, operating on a running release train model
• Partner across Adobe's engineering, security, and infrastructure teams to ensure agentic capabilities are built with appropriate guardrails, data protection, and enterprise-grade reliability
• Represent Adobe in technical conversations with LLM partners and navigate integration architecture and co-development decisions
• Build and maintain fluency across the emerging agentic standards ecosystem — MCP, plugin architecture, skills manifests, agent harnesses — and ensure Adobe's engineering practices evolve with the space

Requirements

• A track record of leading and scaling high-performing engineering organizations to ship complex platform products, ideally spanning both first-party product development and third-party ecosystem integrations
• Deep experience with AI/ML platform engineering, including working knowledge of LLM APIs, agent frameworks, and the emerging agentic tooling ecosystem (MCP, function calling, orchestration layers)
• Experience building and shipping developer-facing platform capabilities — APIs, SDKs, plugin/connector frameworks — at scale
• Strong cross-functional leadership instincts with a history of effective partnership with Product, Design, GTM, and external technical partners
• Comfort operating in fast-moving, ambiguous environments where technical standards and competitive dynamics are rapidly evolving
• Experience with enterprise-grade reliability, security, and compliance requirements in the context of AI-powered products leadership roles
• Experience working with LLM providers or contributing to AI platform strategy is strongly preferred.

Tech Stack

• Cloud

Benefits

• Adobe for All
• Health insurance
• Comprehensive benefits programs