Sr. Director, Engineering - Digital Video & Audio (DVA)

The Opportunity 

Adobe's Digital Video & Audio (DVA) business powers the world's leading creative tools for professional video editing, motion graphics, visual effects, and content creation. Premiere Pro and After Effects are industry-defining applications used by filmmakers, broadcasters, social creators, enterprises, and creative professionals worldwide!

The future of creative storytelling will be hybrid, bringing together traditional craft and AI-powered creation in ways that expand what's possible. Whether an artist starts with an ARRI camera, a script, or a prompt, Adobe is building the world's leading creative platform to support every stage of the journey. From intelligent editing and generative video to cloud-native workflows and connected creative experiences, Digital Video & Audio is helping creators imagine, craft, and deliver compelling stories wherever inspiration begins. 

As Senior Director of Engineering, you will lead engineering strategy and execution across Premiere Pro, After Effects, and the platform, helping shape the future of professional video creation. You will partner closely across Product, Design, Research, and Platform Engineering to accelerate innovation, modernize core technologies, and deliver intelligent experiences that delight millions of creators around the world. 

This is a highly visible leadership role supporting one of Adobe's most strategic product portfolios. Success requires building high-performing teams, influencing across a complex matrixed organization, and driving technical and organizational excellence at scale.   

You will partner closely with leaders across Product Management, Design, Applied Research, Firefly AI, Creative Cloud, and Engineering to define and deliver the future of Adobe's video, motion graphics, and creative technology platform. 

We are looking for an experienced engineering leader with strong technical judgment, operational rigor, and a track record of delivering creative products through major technology shifts. The ideal candidate has modernized mature architectures, scaled organizations, and integrated AI into customer experiences at global scale. 

What You’ll Do 

• Define and drive the engineering strategy for DVA across. Lead the next generation of AI-native and agent-based creative experiences. 

• Integrate generative AI, intelligent agents, and multimodal workflows into creator experiences in partnership with Adobe AI Research and Firefly teams. 

• Lead engineering execution and advance extensibility frameworks, developer experiences, and AI-powered workflows while delivering seamless experiences across devices and creative surfaces. 

• Drive the technology strategy for Adobe's Digital Video & Audio portfolio, accelerating AI-powered experiences across Premiere Pro, After Effects, and the platform. Modernize core video and rendering technologies, cloud services, collaboration capabilities, extensibility frameworks, and shared platform infrastructure while balancing architectural transformation with continuous product delivery. 

• Build and develop a high performing global engineering organization responsible for performance, scalability, reliability, and operational rigor. Foster accountability, technical excellence, innovation, and strong execution while partnering across Adobe to align strategy, priorities, and platform direction. 

• Represent Adobe externally through executive engagement, technical leadership, and a clear vision for shaping the next era of creativity. 

What You'll Need to Succeed 

• Demonstrated ownership of business outcomes that delivered double-digit growth. Experience expanding product value and adoption among new and emerging creators, with a strong focus on activation, retention, and business impact. 

• 15+ years of software engineering experience building and shipping products with a worldwide reach. Experience leading large distributed engineering organizations responsible for complex, business-critical platforms including large-scale desktop applications and cross-platform experiences used by millions of creators. 

• Proven experience integrating AI and machine learning technologies to enhance customer experiences, including generative AI, large language models, agent-based workflows, orchestration frameworks, inference systems, and multimodal experiences. 

• Demonstrated success in modernizing platforms and leading large-scale AI adoption initiatives across mature engineering organizations and codebases. Experience improving engineering productivity through AI-assisted development and modern delivery practices. 

• Strong technical depth across native applications, cloud-connected platforms, distributed systems, web, mobile, AI infrastructure, and developer ecosystems.