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Group Manager, Forward Deployed AI Engineering

Adobe

Job Location:

San Jose, CA - USA

Yearly Salary: $ 161700 - 303300

Posted: 17 July 2026 (30+ days ago)

Application Deadline: 19 November 2026

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Adobes Growth Marketing & Insights (GMI) organization is rebuilding how marketing teams operate not by layering AI tools on top of existing workflows but by replacing them. The AI Strategy & Innovation (AISI) team is at the center of that work and this Group Manager role exists to lead the people doing it.

Youll manage a team of 68 Forward-Deployed AI Engineers embedded across GMIs paid media lifecycle marketing data science and marketing analytics functions. Your job is to make them effective! Youll identify the highest priority work clear obstacles raise the quality of what they build connect the dots across functions and ensure the patterns that work in one team spread to the others. Youre not the one building agents day-to-day. Youre the one making sure the people who do have what they need to move fast and build things that stick.

Youll also be a key part of how AISI grows. Youll partner on hiring develop the teams capabilities and help establish the playbook for what good forward-deployed AI work looks like at Adobe.

What you bring

Deep enough AI knowledge to lead a technical team. You dont need to be writing production agents but you must speak the language fluently: agentic systems RAG LLM evaluation tool orchestration. Your team will bring you real problems and you need to engage with them substantively not just manage around the edges.

Comfortable in a growth marketing organization. You understand the ways in which marketing teams think what theyre measured on and how to earn their trust. Youve worked alongside marketers or in a marketing function and you know the difference between a tool that gets adopted and one that gets abandoned.

A strong communicator up and down the org. You can present to a VP without losing the substance and you can give an FDE direct useful feedback without demoralizing them. You move comfortably between both modes.

Minimum requirements

3 years managing people in AI data science machine learning or a closely related technical field
Strong working knowledge of modern AI concepts: agentic systems knowledge graphs RAG context window management tool use etc. sufficient to engage substantively with your teams work
Experience with a marketing or marketing technology organization with a genuine understanding of how various marketing functions operate
Demonstrated ability to develop people with evidence that engineers or analysts youve managed grew in capability and impact
Strong presentation and communication skills including experience translating technical AI concepts for VP-level or executive audiences
Proven ability to coordinate across multiple functions and collaborators simultaneously
Active user of AI tools and platforms in your own work!

Preferred qualifications

Experience in a forward-deployed embedded or solutions engineering model where you had to earn trust quickly and deliver value in someone elses environment
Background in building or scaling internal AI programs centers of excellence or enablement functions
Familiarity with martech ecosystems: CDPs marketing automation analytics platforms campaign management tools
Experience partnering on recruiting and team-building not just inheriting a team

About Adobe

Adobe empowers everyone to create through innovative platforms and tools that unleash creativity productivity and personalized customer experiences. Adobes 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 30000 employees worldwide are creating the future and raising the bar as we drive the next decade of growth. Were 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.

Lets Adobe together

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AI Use Guidelines for Interviews:
Our interviews are designed to reflect your own skills and thinking. The use of AI or recording tools during live interviews is not permitted unless explicitly invited by the interviewer or approved in advance as part of a reasonable accommodation. If these tools are used inappropriately or in a way that misrepresents your work your application may not move forward in the process.

At Adobe we empower employees to innovate with AI and we look for candidates eager to do the same. As part of the hiring experience we provide clear guidance on where AI is encouraged during the process and where its restricted during live interviews. See how we think about AI in the hiring experience.

Expected Pay Range:

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several U.S. geographic markets and we pay differently based on those defined markets. The U.S. pay range for this positionis $$303300 annually. Paywithin this range varies by work locationand may also depend on job-related knowledge skillsand experience. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the job location during the hiring process.

In California the pay range for this position is $209400 - $303300

At Adobe for sales roles starting salaries are expressed as total target compensation (TTC base commission) and short-term incentives are in the form of sales commission plans. Non-sales roles starting salaries are expressed as base salary and short-term incentives are in the form of the Annual Incentive Plan (AIP).

In addition certain roles may be eligible for long-term incentives in the form of a new hire equity award.

State-Specific Notices:

California:

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Adobe will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with state and local laws and fair chance ordinances.

Colorado:

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If this role is open to hiring in Colorado (as listed on the job posting) the application window will remain open until at least the date and time stated above in Pacific Time in compliance with Colorado pay transparency regulations. If this role does not have Colorado listed as a hiring location no specific application window applies and the posting may close at any time based on hiring needs.

Massachusetts:

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It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.

Required Experience:

Manager

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