Sr. Director, ML & Engineering

Our Company

Changing the world through digital experiences is what Adobe’s all about. We give everyone—from emerging artists to global brands—everything they need to design and deliver exceptional digital experiences! We’re passionate about empowering people to create beautiful and powerful images, videos, and apps, and transform how companies interact with customers across every screen. 

We’re on a mission to hire the very best and are committed to creating exceptional employee experiences where everyone is respected and has access to equal opportunity. We realize that new ideas can come from everywhere in the organization, and we know the next big idea could be yours!

The opportunity:   

Search, Discovery and Content Intelligence (SDC) technology is a critical part of Adobe’s products capabilities – offering AI-powered Search, Browse, Recommendations, RAG assistive workflow capabilities, and conversational agents. Adobe’s products are all about creating amazing multimedia and multimodal rich content. Creative professionals, enterprise users, and novice users alike need quick access to their digital assets, ingredients, style libraries, and the wide variety of creative content they work with every day, from brushes to colors, images, design assets, videos, audio and beyond.  Users need to discover contextually inspirational rich media content, assets their teams have created or from Stock digital marketplaces, Adobe community content and more.   

The SDC team powers Search, Recommendation and Assistive experiences in flagship Adobe products, including Adobe Express, Stock, Photoshop, Illustrator, Lightroom, Acrobat, and Adobe.com.  We focus on developing innovative AI-powered search, recommendations, and assistive experiences using generative AI technologies across all modalities, including text, image, videos, and creating industry-leading experiences to improve creative efficiency for creators, marketers, and designers. We leverage and fine-tune LLMs, vLLMs, transformers, vector search and RAG, transformer relevance models, and neural agents to build our state-of-the-art technology stack.   

We are looking for a Senior Director of AI/ML with deep domain experience in information retrieval (IR), recommender systems, query understanding and intent AI, LLMs, relevance AI, image and language understanding, data mining, search funnel data analysis and metrics, and search UX.  

What you will do:  

• Lead a large team of managers, applied machine learning scientists, data scientists, and search engineers to drive business impact. 

• Top-notch leadership experience to collaborate with partner and stakeholder teams, PM, Research and other applied research leaders across