Sr Engineering Manager, AI Enablement

Senior Engineering Manager

Join Adobe as a Senior Engineering Manager in San Jose, CA, and lead an ambitious team to deliver world-class engineering solutions! This is an outstanding opportunity to build the future of digital creativity and efficiency. Adobe is renowned for its innovative platforms and tools, and you will play a crucial role in maintaining our flawless standards and driving success.

What You'll Do

• Lead the strategy and execution of a central AI Platform focused on Agentic AI, MCP, and A2A frameworks
• Partner with Product and Business leaders to translate priorities into scalable AI solutions and measurable outcomes
• Build reusable AI capabilities, orchestration frameworks, and developer platforms to drive adoption across teams
• Establish standards, governance, and guidelines for responsible and scalable AI development
• Hire, mentor, and lead a high-performing AI engineering team with a strong execution culture

What You Need To Succeed

• 10+ years of engineering experience with strong leadership in building platform teams
• Proven experience in designing and delivering AI/ML or Generative AI platforms at scale
• Deep understanding of Agentic AI systems, including orchestration, tool usage, memory, and multi-agent collaboration (A2A)
• Experience with LLMs, RAG architectures, prompt orchestration, and evaluation frameworks
• Familiarity with MCP or similar tool/agent integration frameworks and building reusable AI components
• Strong system design skills across distributed systems, APIs, and scalable platform architectures
• Hands-on experience with cloud environments (AWS/Azure/GCP) and modern data/AI infrastructure
• Demonstrated ability to partner with Product and Business leaders to shape strategy and deliver outcomes
• Strong execution perspective with a track record of taking ambiguous AI initiatives to production
• Experience building and leading high-performing, fast-moving engineering teams
• Ability to operate effectively in a matrix organization and influence without authority
• Excellent communication and storytelling skills to align senior partners on AI strategy and investments
• Passion for staying at the forefront of AI innovation and applying it to real-world business problems
• Lead, mentor, and grow high-performing engineering teams, including Engineering Managers, Senior Engineers, and cross-functional contributors.
• Build a culture of innovation, accountability, inclusivity, and continuous learning, aligned with Adobe's values.
• Own execution excellence: roadmap planning and prioritization, dependency and risk management, delivery predictability and operational rigor.
• Conduct performance management, career development, and long-term leadership succession planning.