Director, Software Development

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!

Position- Director, Software Development

Business Unit- DALP

Location Bengaluru

About Us

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.

Opportunity

Adobe Advertising is a combination of a ‘Demand Side Platform(DSP)’ and a ‘Spend Optimiser’ that helps customers plan, buy, measure, and optimize their digital media (across CTV, Online Video, Display, Search, Social, and Retail Media Networks). We solve hard problems across big data (400 bn auctions a day), low latency (20 ms response time), and AI / ML. We build product experiences that customers love for generating insights and taking action. We help the largest global advertisers maximize the impact of their paid media budgets by delivering connected and personalized experiences to their consumers.

As the advertisement industry embraces the key changes from being privacy-safe, the resurgence of CTV, to the proliferation of ‘Walled Gardens’, fast paced innovation and creating differentiation with AI/ML become the cornerstone of success..

As a Director of Software Development, you will provide technical vision and leadership to your teams and mentor and coach them to achieve their full potential. You will foster a culture of agility, excellence, collaboration, customer focus, and ensure that your teams deliver products that meet the highest standards of quality, performance, security, and usability. You will also drive the adoption of best practices, modern tools, and agile methodologies across the engineering organization. You will be accountable for the end-to- end delivery of your products, from ideation to deployment, and ensure that they align with the overall business goals and customer needs.

Role Summary

This position offers unique opportunity to build Adobe’s flagship and award-winning products in a platform agnostic manner on cutting edge tools and technologies leveraging the best of desktop, AI (Artificial Intelligence) and cloud technologies. In this role you will closely partner with the cross functional team of Experience Design, Product and Program Managers in addition to the Marketing team to define and deliver on product roadmaps. You will also be responsible for interaction with customers (directly and through the customer success team) worldwide, understanding their needs and exceeding their expectations through deep innovation and delightful experiences.

What you’ll do

• Lead in a Hands-on manner. Be in the trenches where needed.

• Build high scale and ultra low-latency systems

• Special focus on R&D to rethink existing architectures

• Layout a multi-horizon strategy to guide our research and development efforts based on the latest and greatest in software development practises. Iterate on this strategy as the field evolves and new barriers are breached.

• Collaborate with Product Management to bring AI based Assistive experiences to life. Socialize what’s possible now or in near future to inform the roadmap.

• Be a bridge between Adobe’s research labs, product management and engineering teams to align and amplify their efforts.

• Hire and lead a diverse team of world-class engineers while being responsible for driving all aspects of product development

• Create and instil a team culture that focuses on sound scientific processes and encourages deep engagement with our customers.

• Handle project scope and risks with data, analytics and creative problem solving

Skills Required

• Technology expertise coupled with business understanding

• Great analytical skills

• Ability to bring thought clarity in engineering design and deliverables in ambiguous and rapidly changing business scenario

• Clear and crisp communications skills and ability to foster partnership with a globally distributed team

• Ability to attract, hire and mentor top class talent

• Great understanding of data structures, algorithms, multi-threaded programming and distributed computing concepts

• Ability to be a self-starter and work closely with cross functional team

What you need to succeed

• More than 16 years of experience, including at least 10 years in technical roles involving large scale, web- based system development

• Expertise in Java, Data Lake technologies, building and deploying SaaS applications

• Masters or bachelor's in computer science or main-stream Engineering

• Experience in building high-scale transactional and data platform backed systems from scratch

• Comfortable with ambiguity, adaptability to evolving priorities, and the ability to lead a team while working autonomously

• Proven management experience with highly diverse and global teams

• Demonstrated ability to influence technical and non-technical stakeholders

• An ability to think strategically, look around corners, and create a vision for the current quarter, the year, and five years down the road.

• A relentless pursuit of great customer experiences and continuous improvements to the product.

Adobe is an equal opportunity employer. We hire talented individuals, regardless of gender, race, ethnicity, ancestry, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, cultural background or religious beliefs. We know that when our employees feel appreciated and included, they can be more creative, innovative and successful. This is what it means to be Adobe For All. Learn more about our vision here.

Adobe is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on gender, race or color, ethnicity or national origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other applicable characteristics protected by law. Learn more.

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Experience Level

Executive Level