Firefly Foundry Creative Technologist, Media & Entertainment

Adobe Systems GmbH; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Adobe Systems GmbH is searching for a Creative Technologist to enhance its Media and Entertainment business group. The ideal candidate will possess 5-10 years of hands-on production experience, a deep understanding of Media workflows, and proficiency in Adobe's Creative Cloud products. Responsibilities include leading discovery workshops, building prototypes, and crafting technical demos. The role requires exceptional communication skills and the ability to collaborate across teams, all while maintaining a customer-oriented approach. This position is based in San Jose, California.

Qualifications

• 5-10 years of hands-on experience in Media and Entertainment workflows.
• Deep technical knowledge across creative, document, digital experience, and generative AI.
• Ability to work autonomously with a track record of on-time delivery.

Responsibilities

• Lead workshops to identify customer use cases that unlock value.
• Craft a point of view that aligns Adobe’s solutions to customer needs.
• Build prototypes and script compelling demo videos.

Skills

Media and Entertainment workflows

Creative Cloud applications

JavaScript

Analytical problem solving

Communication skills

Collaboration

Tools

Adobe Firefly solutions

Postman

Python

Job description

The Opportunity

Adobe is a market leader in creative & marketing software. We are looking for a Creative Technologist to join our expanding team in the Media and Entertainment business group. Reporting to the Director of Growth, a successful candidate will have an extensive background in Media and Entertainment workflows, with 5-10 years of hands‑on production experience. You will have strong practical knowledge of Adobe’s core Creative Cloud products, a working knowledge of Adobe’s Marketing Cloud stack, and a keen awareness of 3rd‑party production tools. You will be passionately customer‑oriented, share a deep interest in new technologies (e.g., generative AI, creative workflows), and ideally have an ability to write code – or demonstrate mature ‘vibe coding’ skills. Above all you must have a keen eye for aesthetics, a deep understanding of media pipelines and workflow, and be able to translate customer ideas into beautiful creative assets, on short notice. Your job is to hear a customer’s problem and quickly demonstrate a credible, impact‑focused creative solution. You should also have a commercial mindset, centered around genuine business and customer solutions, not science experiments. Our focus is delighting the customer while growing Adobe’s M&E business.

You’ll have the opportunity to work with some of the world’s largest and most innovative brands on challenging, cutting‑edge, unsolved content and AI challenges.

What you’ll do

• Lead discovery workshops to identify customer use cases that unlock business value.
• Work with internal and customer stakeholders to craft a point of view that aligns Adobe’s solutions to the customer’s business and creative needs.
• Build working prototypes and walkthroughs.
• Help define and scope a technology architecture based on the customer’s needs.
• Script and record compelling technical demo videos that bring the product to life.
• Influence product roadmaps, validating requirements with customers, partners and internal stakeholders. Gather technical product feedback from sales, customer success and professional services organizations.
• Serve as a technical expert on emerging technologies in Adobe Firefly solutions, Creative Cloud, and corresponding Digital Experience APIs and technologies.
• Ideate and code (or vibe code) creative enterprise products and workflow prototypes using knowledge of creative production, Adobe APIs, external APIs, and customer needs.
• Work across internal engineering and research teams to imagine and build prototypes using existing and new available technologies.
• Use other emerging technologies and synthesize technical trends and their impact to Adobe.
• Present product demos to senior leadership at Adobe and with customers, and represent Adobe at customer briefings/events.
• Support and manage multiple pre‑sales customer engagements, in support of the M&E division and the broader Sales organization.

What you will need to succeed

• Deep, hands‑on experience of Media and Entertainment workflows, either as an editor, compositor, VFX leader, motion graphics designer, creator, or similar.
• 5-10 years hands‑on, practitioner experience with Creative Cloud (or similar) applications in the creation of static, vector, 3D, and/or video content.
• Deep technical and customer knowledge across creative, document, digital experience, generative AI, and workflow/low‑code spaces.
• As an advantage, technical developer skills: JavaScript / Node.JS (server‑side, front end), API tools (Postman, App Builder), HTML/CSS, React (Spectrum or similar), Python a plus, low‑code connectors a plus (PowerAutomate, Zapier, n8n, or similar).
• Analytical and strategic problem solving, adept at using data to advise decisions.
• Build the future mindset & around the corner thinking.
• Experience in a technical pre‑sales, technical consulting, developer / architect or creative environment a plus.
• Experience across creative, document and marketing workflows (image editing, video, audio, 3D, analytics, work management, PDF).
• Technical curiosity and a growth mindset evidenced by continuous learning and development.
• Ability to work autonomously, track record of delivering on‑time.
• Work well across functions and engineering teams.
• Exceptional executive and customer communication skills, capable of conveying sophisticated technical and product ideas.
• Strong executive presence and confidence presenting and engaging large stakeholder groups both virtually and in‑person.
• Ability to storyboard, produce, and edit your own demos using Pr, Ps, AEM, Workfront, Frame, Express, etc.
• Flexibility to travel across the continental US and internationally.
• Extreme owner mentality; founder‑style work ethic.
• Great teammate, no ego on our team, always ready to help.

Adobe is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. 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 protected characteristic.