Sr. Director of Engineering - Mixed Media Authoring

Senior Director of Engineering for Mixed Media Authoring

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 featuressuch as generative imaging, intelligent layouts, and motion designdirectly 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 typesvideo, audio, graphics, text, and imagescome 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

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 $197,700 $416,600 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.

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.