Firefly Foundry, Creative Architect

Adobe Inc.; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Adobe Inc. is seeking a senior creator-technology leader to drive customer engagement, prototype GenAI-powered workflows, and translate complex needs into scalable solutions.

You will work across design, marketing, and engineering to deliver compelling demos and strategic roadmaps while traveling across the continental US and internationally.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional experience building and deploying web applications or interactive experiences.
• Deep familiarity with enterprise creative production workflows across M&E, brand, and agency environments.

Responsibilities

• Act like a product manager for the customer: understand what they need and improve the product.
• Immense yourself in client workflows: assume the designer, marketer, and filmmaker roles to produce outputs.
• Prototype quickly: code fast to align internally and with customers and harden experiences with quality engineering practices.
• Guide discovery workshops: identify high-value use cases and translate needs into credible solutions.
• Create compelling technical demos: ideate and deliver demos using Adobe APIs, Firefly Services, and Creative Cloud.
• Partner with internal teams: work with generative AI models, WASM/WebGPU, and modern web infra.
• Influence Adobe’s product roadmap by surfacing market signals from customers and partners.

Skills

Full-stack development

JavaScript

TypeScript

React

APIs

Cloud deployments

Web tooling

Education

BS in Computer Science

Tools

Premiere Pro

Photoshop

AEM

Workfront

Frame.io

Express

Job description

Our Company

At Adobe, we change the world through digital experiences – empowering everyone from emerging artists to global brands to create exceptional content and experiences. As the leader in creative, document, and experience technology, we drive transformation for more than 85% of the Fortune 2000.

The Opportunity

Every global brand is now a media company. The question is whether they have the infrastructure, the intelligence, and the craft to operate like one. Join a fast‑paced, 0‑to‑1 intrapreneurial team within Adobe Firefly Foundry, working directly with enterprise customers to scope and identify deep‑tuning AI services. You will collaborate closely with Adobe’s platform, security, engineering, product, and program management organizations.

A successful candidate brings genuine creative fluency, full‑stack engineering depth, and experience with agency & media workflows. You translate complex customer problems into working solutions – often before the customer knows what they need. You have a builder’s instinct for GenAI prototypes and bring insight and clarity to unclear paths.

What You’ll Do

• Act like a product manager for the customer: understand what they need, think about how to improve the product, and bring that perspective back inside consistently.
• Immerse yourself fully in client workflows: step into the role of the designer, the marketer, the filmmaker and produce the outputs; use the tools deeply enough to hit real friction, anticipate needs, surface edge cases, and find the errors.
• Prototype quickly: code quickly to drive alignment internally and with customers, then harden experiences with quality engineering practices for Adobe’s client platforms.
• Participate and guide discovery workshops: identify high‑value use cases, define and scope technical architectures, and translate customer needs into credible, impact‑focused solutions.
• Create compelling technical demos: ideate next‑generation creative workflows using Adobe APIs, Firefly Services, Creative Cloud, and AI capabilities; script, produce, and deliver the demos yourself. Represent Adobe as required at industry events, advisory boards, and executive forums.
• Partner with internal engineering and research teams: imagine and build with existing and emerging technologies, including generative AI models, LLMs, and modern web infrastructure.
• Influence Adobe’s product roadmap: bring real market signal back inside from customers, partners, and the field.

What You Need to Succeed

• 7+ years of professional experience building and deploying web applications or interactive experiences, preferably in the creative tools domain.
• Deep familiarity with enterprise creative production workflows across M&E, brand, and agency environments – including image, video, audio, motion, and experiential content pipelines.
• Full‑stack development proficiency: JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js, React, HTML, CSS on the front end; Python, Java, Go, or C++ on the back end. API tooling, low‑code connectors, and AWS or Azure deployments are a plus.
• Hands‑on experience with Adobe Creative Cloud applications and the ability to produce and edit your own demos using Premiere Pro, Photoshop, AEM, Workfront, Frame.io, and Express.
• Exposure to generative AI models, text‑to‑image systems, and LLMs. Familiarity with WASM, WebGPU, or canvas rendering is a bonus.
• Analytical and strategic problem solver with strong executive presence and the communication skills to make complex technical ideas land in a boardroom.
• Customer‑obsessed, detail‑oriented, and biased toward action. Solve complex problems independently and drive tangible results in a team‑oriented culture.
• High EQ, low ego, extreme ownership mentality, and genuine curiosity about what comes next.
• Flexibility to travel across the continental US and internationally.
• BS or higher in Computer Science or equivalent experience.

Equal Employment Opportunity

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.