Full-Time

Director – AI VFX Engineering

Posted on 2/21/2026

Adobe

Adobe

10,001+ employees

Creates subscription-based creative, marketing, documents software

Compensation Overview

$206.4k - $384.7k/yr

+ Equity Award

Los Angeles, CA, USA

Hybrid

Hybrid/Remote flexible work arrangement; travel ~10%.

Category
Art, Graphics & Animation (2)
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Required Skills
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe After Effects
Adobe Premiere Pro
Observability
Requirements
  • 12+ years of developing and shipping VFX solutions in film and other media and entertainment industries (e.g., gaming)
  • 2+ years developing and working with Generative Artificial Intelligence solutions (e.g., ComfyUI) for VFX, production, and post-production (in animation, or live action)
  • 5+ years in people leadership roles, managing VFX engineering teams (direct reports, hiring, coaching, career development)
  • Deep understanding of media and entertainment production, post-production, and VFX workflows
  • Familiarity in Generative AI solution patterns: prompt design & evaluation, guardrails, observability/measurement, vectorized retrieval, style constraints, and cost governance
  • Strong technical depth across software and tooling for VFX; ability to evaluate trade-offs without being the primary implementer
  • Executive presence with studio leadership; exceptional written communication (one-pagers, decision records, reference designs)
Responsibilities
  • Build and lead a high-performing team of VFX engineers and workflow experts by hiring, developing, and mentoring.
  • Represent Firefly Foundry with media and entertainment leaders; guide your team to deliver executive design reviews, workshops, and thought leadership.
  • Establish and evolve reference patterns for creative workflow blueprints, prompt/evaluation pipelines, campaign scalability, and governance guardrails.
  • Provide leadership and escalation frameworks as your team tackles fidelity, throughput, quality, and authenticity of new VFX workflows with Generative AI.
  • Oversee enterprise integration across Adobe surfaces apps (Firefly, Photoshop, Premiere Pro, After Effects, Substance 3D, Frame.io), and digital asset management/media asset management systems; empower your team to lead implementations.
  • Direct partners and customers’ blueprint creation in terms of how to work with our new workflows and technologies, validated delivery against our standards, and scale.
  • Ensure your team translates creative and business priorities into return on investment/cost of ownership metrics that influence customer expansions.
Desired Qualifications
  • Portfolio of contributions to A-list movies, or other productions

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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Yahoo Finance
Apr 15th, 2026
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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.

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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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