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Job Summary:
Adobe is a market leader in creative & marketing software, seeking a Creative Technologist for their Media and Entertainment business group. The role involves leading discovery workshops, crafting solutions for customers, and influencing product roadmaps while working with innovative brands on creative challenges.
Responsibilities:
• Lead discovery workshops to identify customer use cases that unlock business value.
• Work with internal and customer stakeholders to craft a point of view that aligns Adobe’s solutions to the customer’s business and creative needs.
• Build working prototypes and walkthroughs.
• Help define and scope a technology architecture based on the customer’s needs.
• Script & record compelling technical demo videos that bring the product to life.
• Influence product roadmaps, validating requirements with customers, partners and internal stakeholders. Gather technical product feedback from sales, customer success and professional services organizations.
• Serve as a technical expert on emerging technologies in Adobe Firefly solutions, Creative Cloud, and corresponding Digital Experience APIs and technologies.
• Ideate and code (or vibe code) creative enterprise products 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 and synthesize technical trends and their impact to Adobe.
• Present product demos to senior leadership at Adobe and with customers, and represent Adobe at customer briefings/events.
• Support and manage multiple pre-sales customer engagements, in support of the M&E division and the broader Sales organization.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Extensive background in Media and Entertainment workflows
• 5-10 years of hands-on production experience
• Strong practical knowledge of Adobe’s core Creative Cloud products
• Working knowledge of Adobe’s Marketing Cloud stack
• Keen awareness of 3rd party production tools
• Passionately customer orientated
• Deep interest in new technologies (e.g., generative AI, creative workflows)
• Ability to write code, or demonstrate mature ‘vibe coding’ skills
• Keen eye for aesthetics
• Deep understanding of media pipelines and workflow
• Ability to translate customer ideas into beautiful creative assets, at short notice
• Commercial mindset, centered around genuine business and customer solutions
• Ability to lead discovery workshops to identify customer use cases that unlock business value
• Ability to work with internal and customer stakeholders to craft a point of view that aligns Adobe’s solutions to the customer’s business and creative needs
• Ability to build working prototypes and walkthroughs
• Ability to help define and scope a technology architecture based on the customer’s needs
• Ability to script & record compelling technical demo videos that bring the product to life
• Ability to influence product roadmaps, validating requirements with customers, partners and internal stakeholders
• Ability to gather technical product feedback from sales, customer success and professional services organizations
• Ability to serve as a technical expert on emerging technologies in Adobe Firefly solutions, Creative Cloud, and corresponding Digital Experience APIs and technologies
• Ability to ideate and code (or vibe code) creative enterprise products and workflow prototypes using knowledge of creative production, Adobe APIs, external APIs, and customer needs
• Ability to work across internal engineering and research teams to imagine and build prototypes using existing and new available technologies
• Ability to use other emerging technologies and synthesize technical trends and their impact to Adobe
• Ability to present product demos to senior leadership at Adobe and with customers, and represent Adobe at customer briefings/events
• Ability to support and manage multiple pre-sales customer engagements, in support of the M&E division and the broader Sales organization
• Deep, hands-on experience of Media and Entertainment workflows, either as an editor, compositor, VFX leader, motion graphics designer, creator, or similar
• 5-10 years hands on, practitioner experience with Creative Cloud (or similar) 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 solving, 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 work autonomously, track-record of delivering on-time
• Ability to 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 across the continental US and internationally
• Extreme owner mentality; founder-style work ethic
• Great teammate, no ego on our team, always ready to help, and have FUN!
Preferred:
• Technical developer 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)
• 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)
Company:
Adobe is a software company that provides its users with digital marketing and media solutions. Founded in 1982, the company is headquartered in San Jose, USA, with a team of 10001+ employees. The company is currently Late Stage.