Director of Engineering

Job description

About the Role

Customer Experience Orchestration (CXO) ( https://www.adobe.com/experience-cloud.html) is a USD 5B+ business serving the needs of enterprise businesses including 95%+ of fortune 500 organizations.

We are hiring a Director of Engineering to lead a senior engineering organization responsible for large-scale, cloud-native platforms and AI/GenAI-powered capabilities. This role requires a leader with strong technical judgment, proven people leadership, and skill in connecting engineering decisions to organizational and customer outcomes.

You will own technology strategy and execution for highly distributed systems, while building a culture of engineering excellence, accountability, and innovation. You will lead engineers, engineering heads, and technical architects delivering enterprise-critical applications, numerous small-scale services, and agentic solutions.

What You Will Do

• Define and drive the technical vision and execution strategy aligned with CXO business priorities

• Provide technical and architectural leadership across large-scale, distributed systems

• Lead design and delivery of platforms comprising hundreds of microservices, ensuring scalability, reliability, security, and performance

• Own end-to-end delivery and operations, balancing execution speed with long-term system health

• Lead teams building AI/GenAI-powered customer-facing features and employing AI to improve engineering efficiency

• Translate complex technical decisions into clear business and customer impact

• Set a high bar for engineering excellence, ownership, and continuous improvement

• Mentor senior engineers, managers, and architects through complex technical and organizational challenges

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