Firefly Foundry Creative Technologist, Media & Entertainment

Adobe; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 156,300 - 226,350; Full time

Job summary

Adobe is seeking a Creative Technologist in San Jose, California, to transform customer challenges into solutions through advertising technology and creative workflows. This role entails leading discovery workshops, crafting points of view for customer needs, and building prototypes. Successful candidates will have 5-10 years of media production experience, proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud, and the ability to communicate complex ideas effectively. Expected salary ranges from $156,300 to $226,350 annually.

Qualifications

• 5-10 years of practical experience in Media and Entertainment workflows.
• Proficiency in creative production and customer knowledge.
• Experience with low-code connectors like PowerAutomate and Zapier.

Responsibilities

• Lead workshops to identify customer use cases.
• Build working prototypes and walkthroughs.
• Present product demos to senior leadership and customers.

Skills

Hands-on production experience in media workflows

Familiarity with Adobe Creative Cloud

Strong communication skills

Technical development skills (JavaScript, Node.JS)

Experience in technical consulting or pre-sales

Tools

Adobe Creative Cloud

Postman

React

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. The role reports to the Director of Growth and focuses on transforming customer problems into creative solutions using advertising technology.

The successful candidate will possess 5-10 years of hands‑on production experience in media workflows, strong familiarity with Adobe Creative Cloud and Marketing Cloud, and a passion for new technologies such as generative AI. They must be able to prototype quickly, write code or demonstrate creative "vibe" coding, and communicate complex ideas to both technical and non‑technical audiences.

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 & 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, and have FUN.

Expected Pay Range

U.S. pay range for this position is $120,700 - $226,350 annually. Pay within this range may vary by location. California: $156,300 - $226,350. New Y o k: $156,300 - $226,350.

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, veteran status or any other protected characteristic.