Sr. Director, Engineering - Digital Video & Audio (DVA)

Adobe Systems
San Jose, Seattle, San Francisco
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 209,300 - 429,350 annuallyFunction: Creative Production (Video/Audio/Photo)Experience: 15+ yearsSkills: ["Technical judgment","Operational rigor","Organizational leadership","Influence","Communication"]

Lead engineering strategy and execution for Digital Video & Audio (DVA), powering products like Premiere Pro and After Effects. Partner across Product, Design, Applied Research, Firefly AI, Creative Cloud, and Platform Engineering to modernize core video and rendering technologies, accelerate AI-native and agent-based workflows, and deliver seamless experiences across devices at global scale. Build and grow a high-performing global engineering organization and represent Adobe externally through executive technical leadership.

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Sr. Director, Engineering - Digital Video & Audio (DVA)

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Job Summary

Lead engineering strategy and execution for Digital Video & Audio (DVA), powering products like Premiere Pro and After Effects. Partner across Product, Design, Applied Research, Firefly AI, Creative Cloud, and Platform Engineering to modernize core video and rendering technologies, accelerate AI-native and agent-based workflows, and deliver seamless experiences across devices at global scale. Build and grow a high-performing global engineering organization and represent Adobe externally through executive technical leadership.
Location: San Jose, Seattle, San Francisco
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Creative Production (Video/Audio/Photo)
Seniority: Sr. Director level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Define and drive DVA engineering strategy across AI-native and agent-based creative experiences.
  • •Integrate generative AI, intelligent agents, and multimodal workflows into creator experiences in partnership with Adobe AI Research and Firefly teams.
  • •Lead engineering execution and advance extensibility frameworks, developer experiences, and AI-powered workflows across devices and creative surfaces.
  • •Drive technology strategy for the DVA portfolio, modernizing video and rendering technologies, cloud services, collaboration capabilities, extensibility frameworks, and shared platform infrastructure.
  • •Build and develop a high-performing global engineering organization focused on performance, scalability, reliability, and operational rigor; represent Adobe externally through executive technical leadership.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 209,300 - 429,350 annually

Key Requirements

  • •Demonstrated ownership of business outcomes, delivering double-digit growth and driving activation, retention, and business impact.
  • •15+ years of software engineering experience building and shipping products with worldwide reach, including leading large distributed engineering organizations.
  • •Proven experience integrating AI and machine learning into customer experiences, including generative AI, large language models, agent-based workflows, and multimodal experiences.
  • •Success modernizing platforms and leading large-scale AI adoption initiatives across mature engineering organizations and codebases.
  • •Strong technical depth and operational excellence across distributed systems, cloud-connected platforms, native applications, and developer ecosystems.
Experience:15+ years
Skills:Technical judgmentOperational rigorOrganizational leadershipInfluenceCommunication
Tech Stack:Generative AILarge language modelsAgent-based workflowsMultimodal experiencesAI-assisted development

Company Brief

Adobe Systems
Provides creative, marketing, and document management software and cloud services, including Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, and the Adobe Experience Cloud, serving creative professionals, enterprises, and governments worldwide.
Industry: SaaS
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: San Jose, United States
Founded: 1982
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