Full-Time

Creative Technologist

Foundry

Posted on 8/15/2025

Adobe

Adobe

10,001+ employees

Creates subscription-based creative, marketing, documents software

Compensation Overview

$153.6k - $286.6k/yr

+ Long-term incentives + New hire equity award

Seattle, WA, USA + 3 more

More locations: San Francisco, CA, USA | San Jose, CA, USA | New York, NY, USA

In Person

Category
Creative Production
Required Skills
Python
JavaScript
React.js
Postman
Node.js
HTML/CSS
Zapier
Requirements
  • Minimum technical skills: JavaScript / Node.JS (server-side, front end), API tools (Postman, App Builder), HTML/CSS, React (Spectrum or similar), Python a plus, Low-code connectors a plus (PowerAutomate, Zapier, n8n, or similar)
  • +10 years as a developer (full-stack preferred, familiar with API methodology/usage)
  • +10 years hands on, practitioner experience with Creative Cloud (or competitive) applications in the creation of static, vector, 3D, and/or video content.
  • Deep technical and customer knowledge across creative, document, digital experience, generative AI, and workflow/low-code spaces
  • Analytical and strategic problem solver, adept at using data to advise decisions.
  • Build the future mindset & around the corner thinking
  • Technical curiosity and a growth mindset evidenced by continuous learning and development.
  • Ability to working autonomously, track-record of delivering on-time
  • Work-well across functions and engineering teams
  • Exceptional executive and customer communication skills, capable of conveying sophisticated technical and product ideas.
  • Strong executive presence and confidence presenting and engaging large stakeholder groups both virtually and in-person
  • Ability to storyboard, produce, and edit your own demos using Pr, Ps, AEM, Workfront, Frame, Express etc.
  • Flexibility to travel as needed (max 20% of time)
  • Extreme owner mentality; founder-style work ethic
Responsibilities
  • Leveraging discovery and workshops to identify Foundry use cases that unlock business value for customers.
  • Working with internal and customer stakeholders to craft a vision and point of view that aligns Foundry solutions to the customer’s most strategic business and creative issues.
  • Understand business & customer needs, and devise working prototypes
  • Defining the ideal technology architecture based on the customer’s current and desired future state
  • Script & record compelling technical demo videos that bring product truth to life.
  • Influence product roadmaps. Validate and iterate with customers, partners and internal stakeholders. Gather technical product feedback from sales, customer success and professional services organizations.
  • Serve as technical expert on emerging technologies in Adobe Firefly Services (APIs), Creative Cloud technologies, and corresponding Digital Experience APIs and technologies
  • Ideate and code creative enterprise product and workflow prototypes using knowledge of creative production, Adobe APIs, external APIs, and customer needs
  • Work across internal engineering and research teams to imagine and build prototypes using existing and new available technologies.
  • Use other emerging technologies (e.g., products, APIs) and synthesize technical trends and impact to Adobe (so-what, then-what)
  • As needed, present product demos to Adobe senior leadership, represent Adobe at CEC/customer/events/developer audiences.
  • Embed for post-sales success in up to 3 simultaneous customer Foundry engagement
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience in a technical pre-sales, technical consulting, developer / architect or creative environment a plus
  • Experience across creative, document and marketing workflows (image editing, video, audio, 3D, analytics, work management, pdf)
  • Great teammate, low & no ego on our team, always ready to help, FUN!

Adobe provides a broad set of digital experience tools, covering creative software, document management, and marketing solutions. Its core offerings—Adobe Creative Cloud for design, Adobe Document Cloud for PDFs and workflows, and Adobe Experience Cloud for marketing and customer experiences—are available through a subscription model that includes individual, business, and enterprise plans. How it works: users access a suite of applications and services via cloud-based software and licensing, enabling them to create, deliver, and optimize digital content across platforms. Adobe differentiates itself by offering an integrated, end-to-end ecosystem that spans creative work, document workflows, and marketing data, along with enterprise-grade features and services. It also explores expanding capabilities in 3D design and augmented reality, aiming to support both individuals and organizations in building and managing digital experiences at scale.

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

IPO

Headquarters

San Jose, California

Founded

1994

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Brands like Coca-Cola and Home Depot adopt Adobe Real-Time CDP innovations.
  • Adobe GenStudio reimagines enterprise content supply chains in 2024.
  • Subscription model drives $19.41 billion revenue in fiscal 2023.

What critics are saying

  • Hightouch's sub-second ETL erodes Adobe's 60-minute data delays in 6-12 months.
  • OpenAI's GPT-4o and Sora drive 40% creative user churn in 6-12 months.
  • Standalone Figma captures 30% enterprise design share in 3-6 months.

What makes Adobe unique

  • Adobe Real-Time CDP enables millisecond-level edge segmentation for personalization.
  • Real-Time CDP Connections streamline server-side data forwarding to Facebook and Google.
  • B2P Real-Time CDP unifies B2C and B2B data with full governance.

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Company News

Yahoo Finance
Apr 15th, 2026
Adobe's Creative and Marketing revenues surge 12% to $4.39B driven by AI adoption

Adobe's Creative and Marketing Professionals segment grew 12% year-over-year to $4.39 billion in first-quarter fiscal 2026, driven by AI adoption and subscription strength. Creative Cloud freemium monthly active users surpassed 80 million, up over 50% annually, whilst generative credit consumption through Firefly surged 45% quarter-over-quarter. The company's enterprise digital experience business showed strong momentum, with GenStudio and Adobe Experience Platform each growing over 30% in annual recurring revenue. Adobe's remaining performance obligations reached $22.22 billion. However, Adobe faces significant competition from Microsoft and Alphabet in AI. Microsoft reported $625 billion in remaining performance obligations and 15 million Microsoft 365 Copilot paid seats, whilst Alphabet's AI Overview feature now reaches 2 billion monthly users.

Tech in Asia
Apr 14th, 2026
Oracle, Adobe rally as AI peace hopes lift battered software sector down 23% YTD

Software stocks rallied on hopes for a US-China trade deal, with Oracle and Adobe leading gains. However, the sector remains under pressure this year amid fears that AI tools from OpenAI and Anthropic could enable customers to build software faster and potentially displace vendors. The iShares Expanded Tech-Software Sector ETF is down over 23% year-to-date, with average sales multiples falling from 9x to 6x. A record $25 billion in software-sector leveraged loans now trade at distressed levels, raising concerns about private credit markets where the sector is a major borrower. Some firms are monetising AI successfully — ServiceNow's Now Assist product reached $600 million in annual contract value in Q4 2025. Yet deteriorating valuations could trigger a credit crisis through "shadow defaults" and forced fund withdrawals, with potential spillover to banks increasingly exposed to private credit.

Yahoo Finance
Apr 13th, 2026
BTIG initiates Adobe and Figma with Neutral ratings on AI growth concerns

BTIG has initiated coverage of Adobe and Figma with Neutral ratings, citing strong market positions but uncertainty around AI-driven growth sustainability. Adobe, which generated approximately $24 billion in revenue in FY25, faces concerns about generative AI's impact on Creative Cloud, which accounts for roughly 60% of revenue. Despite resilient growth and strong margins, Adobe shares have fallen about 55% over five years as questions emerge around pricing power and competition. Figma has achieved over $1 billion in FY25 run-rate revenue with 41% growth, pioneering UI/UX design. BTIG noted strong early adoption of its AI-powered "Make" features but said monetisation potential remains unclear in the near term. Both companies demonstrate solid fundamentals, but AI's long-term impact on revenues and margins remains ambiguous.

TechCrunch
Apr 7th, 2026
Adobe launches free AI study tool Acrobat Spaces for students

Adobe has launched Acrobat Spaces, a free AI-powered study tool designed for students. The platform allows users to upload PDFs, documents, PowerPoint files, URLs, handwritten notes and transcripts to generate flashcards, mind maps, quizzes, podcasts and editable presentations. Available on a separate URL without requiring login, Acrobat Spaces competes with tools like Google's NotebookLM, Goodnotes and Turbo AI. Students can also access an AI assistant to ask questions, with responses grounded in uploaded documents to reduce errors. Adobe developed the product by testing it with 500 students from universities including Harvard, Berkeley and Brown. Charlie Miller, VP of Education at Adobe, said the company aims to create a one-stop shop for reading and material creation, eliminating the need to move documents between different platforms.

Fortune
Apr 1st, 2026
Adobe tests whether creative tools giant can survive AI era with $6.4B revenue amid investor fears

Adobe is navigating the challenge of integrating AI without alienating the creative professionals who built its business. Anil Chakravarthy, who leads Adobe's customer experience division, describes the company as caught between AI's rapid pace and customers' need for reliability. Despite reporting record first-quarter revenue of $6.40 billion, Adobe's shares have declined as investors question whether AI agents could erode demand for traditional software. The company must balance innovation with maintaining enterprise customers' trust in mission-critical systems. The central tension centres on Adobe's generative AI system, Firefly. Whilst the company positions AI as enhancing creativity, many core users worry about training data sources and whether such tools devalue creative work. Chakravarthy argues Adobe's value lies not in content generation but in helping customers maintain brand consistency, governance and creative distinctiveness at scale.

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