Dir, 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!

About Ad Cloud

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.

Engineering Director

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

What you require:

• 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

Ideal Candidate Profile:

• A total of 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. 

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