# Director of Solution Engineering

**Company**: Adobe
**Location**: San Jose
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $186,500 - $358,250 annually
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Adobe is looking for a Director of Solution Engineering to lead a team focused on transforming ideas into solutions that can be reused across the company. The team works at the intersection of business strategy, software engineering, digital experiences, data, and AI.

**Responsibilities:**

- Lead and grow a team of managers, architects, and solution engineers who help Adobe solve complex business and technology challenges.

- Partner with leaders across Adobe to understand opportunities, define priorities, and identify where data can create meaningful impact.

- Work with teams to transform business needs into data products, services, and capabilities that can be adopted and reused across the company.

- Help shape trusted data foundations that make information easier to discover, understand, and use.

- Guide the creation of AI-enabled and data-driven experiences that improve how teams work and make decisions.

- Collaborate closely with Product Management, Engineering, Architecture, Analytics, and Platform teams to bring ideas from concept to adoption.

- Encourage practical, thoughtful use of AI, automation, and modern engineering approaches that help teams spend more time innovating and less time on repetitive work.

- Establish solution patterns, reference implementations, and best practices that help teams move faster while maintaining quality.

- Support the growth of future leaders through coaching, mentorship, feedback, and career development.

- Foster an inclusive environment where people feel empowered to contribute, experiment, learn, and succeed.

**Requirements:**

- 10+ years of experience in software engineering, solution engineering, product development, data and analytics, consulting, or related technology fields.

- Experience leading technical teams, including managers and senior individual contributors.

- A strong foundation in engineering principles, system design, and modern development practices.

- Experience working with mobile applications, client-side technologies, SDKs, instrumentation frameworks, digital experiences, or event-driven systems.

- Familiarity with the full journey of data, from client instrumentation and event collection through reporting, analytics, automation, and AI experiences.

- Experience helping teams navigate ambiguity, align around shared goals, and deliver results in complex environments.

- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to build trust across technical and non-technical audiences.

- A passion for coaching others and helping teams grow.

- Curiosity, adaptability, and a desire to learn.

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- Master's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field.

**Salary Range:** The U.S. pay range for this position is $186,500 - $358,250 annually. Pay within this range varies by work location and may also depend on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

## Skills

### Required
- software engineering
- solution engineering
- product development
- data and analytics
- consulting
- engineering principles
- system design
- modern development practices
- mobile applications
- client-side technologies
- SDKs
- instrumentation frameworks
- digital experiences
- event-driven systems
- data journey
- ambiguity navigation
- goal alignment
- complex environment delivery
- communication
- collaboration
- coaching
- team growth

### Nice to have
- Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems

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