Senior Engineering Manager - Agentic Product

Adobe Inc.; Lehi (UT); On-site; USD 160,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

Adobe is seeking an Engineering Manager, Agentic Product, to lead a team building AI-native experiences that integrate generative models with Adobe capabilities for creators at scale.

You will manage day-to-day execution, coach engineers, and partner with Product to translate strategy into practical, well-scoped engineering plans while maintaining high-quality, reliable agent features across surfaces.

Qualifications

• Track record leading engineering teams to ship complex AI products with strong execution discipline.
• Experience with AI/ML product engineering and generative models in creative contexts.
• Hands-on depth: architecture decisions, code reviews, and evaluating agent behavior.

Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day engineering execution for a squad delivering agent capabilities across surfaces.
• Grow engineers through coaching, goal-setting, and hands-on technical engagement.
• Translate product strategy into scoped engineering plans with early constraint surface.
• Design and deliver agent capabilities across in-app creative workflows and multi-step tasks.
• Establish and maintain the quality bar for agent behavior and measurable improvements.
• Collaborate with platform and infrastructure teams to ensure guards, data protection, and reliability.
• Stay current with emerging agentic standards and model capabilities.

Skills

Leadership

AI/ML product engineering

Architecture depth

Cross-functional collaboration

Product sense

Adaptability

LLM/agent frameworks

Tools

LLM APIs

Agent frameworks

Job description

The Opportunity

Adobe is reimagining the future of creativity - where generative AI, intelligent agents, and human imagination work hand in hand. As an Engineering Manager, Agentic Product, you will lead a team of engineers building Adobe's Agentic Product: the AI-native experience that brings generative models, creative intelligence, and decades of differentiated Adobe capabilities together into a coherent, high-quality product for creators used by hundreds of millions of people every day. You'll partner with Product and senior engineering leadership to define, build, and ship agentic experiences that meaningfully change how creators work.

You will be responsible for the day-to-day execution and team health of an engineering squad delivering agent capabilities, behaviors, and experiences across surfaces. This is a hands-on engineering leadership role - you are close to the code, deeply invested in team growth, and accountable for shipping quality software on a predictable cadence.

This is an opportunity to help build a new, AI-native engineering team and practices that will define Adobe's most visible AI product. The right person brings experience leading engineering teams that ship high-quality, user-facing AI products, a strong point of view on what "great" looks like for creative AI, and the ability to raise the bar in a space that is moving fast.

What you'll do

• Lead day-to-day engineering execution for a team building Agentic Product capabilities - coordinating delivery, managing dependencies, and maintaining a predictable shipping cadence across surfaces.
• Grow and develop the engineers on your team through coaching, goal-setting, and hands-on technical engagement that builds both individual and team capability.
• Partner with Agentic Product Management to translate product strategy into well-scoped engineering plans, sequence delivery, and surface technical constraints early.
• Contribute to the design and delivery of agent capabilities spanning in-app creative workflows, multi-step task execution, and context-aware assistance across Adobe's surfaces.
• Help establish and maintain the quality bar for agent behavior - what good looks like, how it's measured, and how the team systematically improves it over time.
• Collaborate with platform and infrastructure teams to ensure agent features are built with appropriate evals, guardrails, data protection, and the reliability expected of a product at Adobe's scale.
• Stay current with emerging agentic standards and model capabilities and help your team adopt new tooling and practices without losing execution focus.

What you'll need to succeed

• A track record of leading engineering teams to ship complex, high-quality, user-facing AI products with strong execution discipline.
• Solid experience with AI/ML product engineering, including working knowledge of LLM APIs, agent frameworks, and the capabilities and limitations of current generative models in creative contexts.
• Hands-on technical depth: you can engage meaningfully in architecture decisions, review code and designs with a substantive point of view, and recognize good and brittle agent behavior at the implementation level. You remain close to the code and the craft.
• Strong product sensibility - you have intuitions about user experience, you can look at agent behavior and know when it's good or brittle, and you partner with PM and design as a peer.
• Effective cross-functional collaboration with Product, Design, and platform engineering teams, with a bias toward proactive communication and shared ownership.
• Comfort operating in fast-moving, ambiguous environments where the technology, the competitive dynamics, and the user expectations are all rapidly evolving.
• Experience with the quality, reliability, and trust requirements that come with shipping AI features to a large consumer and enterprise audience.
• Demonstrated ability to help teams adopt new ways of working, internallyize new tooling, and stay ahead of a rapidly shifting technical landscape without losing execution focus.
• Experience working with LLM providers or contributing to AI product strategy is strongly preferred.

About Adobe

Adobe empowers everyone to create through innovative platforms and tools that unleash creativity, productivity and personalized customer experiences. Adobe's industry-leading offerings including Adobe Acrobat Studio, Adobe Express, Adobe Firefly, Creative Cloud, Adobe Experience Platform, Adobe Experience Manager, and GenStudio enable people and businesses to turn ideas into impact, powered by AI and driven by human ingenuity.

Our 30,000+ employees worldwide are creating the future and raising the bar as we drive the next decade of growth. We're on a mission to hire the very best and believe in creating a company culture where all employees are empowered to make an impact. At Adobe, we believe that great ideas can come from anywhere in the organization. The next big idea could be yours.

Let's Adobe together

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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 positionis $160,200 -- $320,000 annually. Paywithin this range varies by work locationand 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.

At Adobe, for sales roles starting salaries are expressed as total target compensation (TTC = base + commission), and short-term incentives are in the form of sales commission plans. Non-sales roles starting salaries are expressed as base salary and short-term incentives are in the form of the Annual Incentive Plan (AIP).

In addition, certain roles may be eligible for long-term incentives in the form of a new hire equity award.

State-Specific Notices

California

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Colorado

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Massachusetts

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