Player‑Coach, Forward‑Deployed Engineering for Creative AI

Adobe

San Jose (CA)

On-site

USD 203,000 - 293,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Adobe is seeking an elite full‑stack engineer who can also speak in Fortune 100 boardrooms and coach a thriving team. You will ship production code weekly, demonstrate value in customer rooms, and hire and grow engineers who share your drive.

A public portfolio of shipped work proves both engineering and creative excellence. Your mastery of a professional creative tool, plus pipelines experience, will enable you to lead multi‑step workflows while turning resistance into broad adoption across

Qualifications

8–10 years shipping real software, full‑stack, with active production code.
Deep hands‑on mastery of a professional creative tool (portfolio proving it).
Hands‑on experience building multi‑step automated workflows/pipelines (ComfyUI, n8n, or similar).
A track record of turning resistance into adoption and building a team that repeats it.
A named senior customer stakeholder and a named decision you drove in the last 12 months.
Public portfolio showing engineering and creative work personally done by you.

Responsibilities

50/50, player‑coach: half time coding, half time in the customer room demoing value.
Hire, coach and develop engineers to reach adoption targets across accounts.
Drive real customer value metrics and expand usage beyond your direct touches.