Opportunity
Adobe Advertising is a combination of a Demand Side Platform(DSP) and a Spend Optimiser that helps customers plan, buy, measure, and optimize their digital media (across CTV, Online Video, Display, Search, Social, and Retail Media Networks). We solve hard problems across big data (400 bn auctions a day), low latency (20 ms response time), and AI / ML. We build product experiences that customers love for generating insights and taking action. We help the largest global advertisers maximize the impact of their paid media budgets by delivering connected and personalized experiences to their consumers.
As the advertisement industry embraces the key changes from being privacy-safe, the resurgence of CTV, to the proliferation of Walled Gardens, fast paced innovation and creating differentiation with AI/ML become the cornerstone of success..
As a Senior Engineering Manager 2 (M50) of Software Development, you will provide technical vision and leadership to your teams and mentor and coach them to achieve their full potential. You will foster a culture of agility, excellence, collaboration, customer focus, and ensure that your teams deliver products that meet the highest standards of quality, performance, security, and usability. You will also drive the adoption of best practices, modern tools, and agile methodologies across the engineering organization. You will be accountable for the end-to- end delivery of your products, from ideation to deployment, and ensure that they align with the overall business goals and customer needs.
Position
Senior Engineering Manager 2
Business Unit
DALP
Role Summary
This position offers unique opportunity to build Adobe's flagship and award-winning products in a platform agnostic manner on cutting edge tools and technologies leveraging the best of desktop, AI (Artificial Intelligence) and cloud technologies. In this role you will closely partner with the cross functional team of Experience Design, Product and Program Managers in addition to the Marketing team to define and deliver on product roadmaps. You will also be responsible for interaction with customers (directly and through the customer success team) worldwide, understanding their needs and exceeding their expectations through deep innovation and delightful experiences.
What You'll Do
- Lead in a Hands-on manner. Be in the trenches where needed.
- Build data lake powered high scale and ultra low-latency systems
- Special focus on R&D and Central data platform evolution to rethink existing architectures
- Layout a multi-horizon strategy to guide our research and development efforts based on the latest and greatest in software development practises. Iterate on this strategy as the field evolves and new barriers are breached.
- Collaborate with Product Management to bring AI based Assistive experiences to life. Socialize what's possible now or in near future to inform the roadmap.
- Be a bridge between Adobe's research labs, product management and engineering teams to align and amplify their efforts.
- Hire and lead a diverse team of world-class engineers while being responsible for driving all aspects of product development
- Create and instil a team culture that focuses on sound scientific processes and encourages deep engagement with our customers.
- Handle project scope and risks with data, analytics and creative problem solving
Skills Required
- Expertise in building very large scale and low-latency data platforms from scratch
- In-depth expertise in Lakehouse technologies, excellent systems design skills,
- Familiarity with frameworks used for modern data platforms and governance
- Exposure to Gen AI technologies and agentic data dependencies will be among the technical requirements for this role.
- Quickly acquiring business understanding
- Clear and crisp communications skills and ability to foster partnership with a globally distributed team
- Ability to attract, hire and mentor top class talent
- Continuously raising the bar
- Ability to be a self-starter and work closely with cross functional team
What You Need To Succeed
- More than 12 years of experience, including at least 8 years in technical roles involving large scale, web- based system development
- Expertise in Data Lake technologies (specifically Lakehouse based technologies), familiarity with frameworks used for building and deploying SaaS applications
- Excellent system design skills and ability to dive into details
- Being a change agent, hire and mentoring top notch talent and keep raising the bar
- Masters or bachelor's in computer science or main-stream Engineering
- Experience in building high-scale transactional and data platform backed systems from scratch
- Comfortable with ambiguity, adaptability to evolving priorities, and the ability to lead a team while working autonomously
- Proven management experience with highly diverse and global teams
- Demonstrated ability to influence technical and non-technical stakeholders
- An ability to think strategically, look around corners, and create a vision for the current quarter, the year, and five years down the road.
- A relentless pursuit of great customer experiences and continuous improvements to the product.
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.
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