Firefly Foundry Creative Technologist, Media & Entertainment

Adobe; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,700 - 226,350; Full time

Job summary

Adobe is seeking a Creative Technologist in New York, NY, to work within the Media and Entertainment business group. This role involves leading discovery workshops, crafting customer-centric solutions, and building prototypes. Candidates should have 5-10 years of hands-on experience with Creative Cloud applications, along with technical skills like JavaScript.

The salary range for this position is $156,300 – $226,350, depending on knowledge and experience.

Qualifications

• 5-10 years hands-on experience with Creative Cloud applications.
• Ability to present complex technical ideas to stakeholders.
• Experience in a technical pre-sales or consulting role.

Responsibilities

• Lead customer discovery workshops to identify use cases.
• Build working prototypes based on customer needs.
• Support multiple pre-sales customer engagements.

Skills

Media and Entertainment workflows

Creative Cloud applications

JavaScript

API tools (Postman, App Builder)

Analytical problem solving

Tools

HTML/CSS

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.

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, have a deep understanding of media pipelines and workflow and be able to translate customer ideas into beautiful creative assets, at 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 & 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

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 $120,700 – $226,350 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. In California, the pay range for this position is $156,300 – $226,350. In New York, the pay range for this position is $156,300 – $226,350.

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.