Manager, Forward Deployed Creative Technologist
$147,900–$293,250 year
On-site · San Jose, California, United States
Job Summary
Lead a team of Forward Deployed Creative Technologists embedded with enterprise customers; 50% hands-on coding and customer work, 50% hiring, coaching, and calibrating the bar across the team. You will hire people better than you, grow the FDCT bench, and steer the team to deliver customer value with ROI-focused outcomes. Own and ship reference workflows, manage vendors/contractors, and bring field signal back to Adobe product/engineering. Must show shipped creative and shipped technical work that you personally did (portfolio required); travel 15–25% across geos. The role blends technical development, customer engagements, and leadership, with a 50/50 player-coach model. Expected to drive time-to-activation, campaign velocity, and brand-system integration within Adobe Firefly Services and the Workflow Builder ecosystem.
Required Qualifications
- 8-12 years straddling creative production AND technical building
- shipped both creative work and technical work personally
- production code in the last 6 months
- evidence of hiring, performance management, and growth of ICs
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