Adobe Experience Platform (AEP) Product Success Engineering (PSE) team is seeking an innovative Director of Software Engineering & Applied AI to lead the development of AI agents, tooling, and automation to help customers directly support, operate, and scale their end-to-end AEP and Apps implementation. Our team seeks to revolutionize customer support & success through intelligent automation and AI agents across the AEP portfolio.
Requirements
- Demonstrated expertise in Applied AI/ML with 3-5 years of hands-on experience deploying production AI systems, including deep understanding of LLMs, generative AI, prompt engineering, and RAG architectures
- Proven track record of architecting and delivering large-scale, cloud-native platforms and distributed systems, with expertise in microservices, API design, and enterprise integration patterns
- Strong background in customer intelligence platforms, analytics systems, and data pipeline architecture, with experience building real-time decision engines and predictive modeling systems
- Product and growth mindset, with a strong ability to translate customer challenges into scalable, automated solutions that drive adoption and business impact
- Deep understanding of B2B SaaS customer success methodologies, including customer health scoring, churn prediction, adoption analytics, and expansion revenue optimization
- Experience leading customer-facing engineering teams or technical account management organizations, with demonstrated ability to translate customer feedback into product improvements
- Experience embedding self-service BI, AI-powered recommendations, and workflow automation into enterprise SaaS products
Responsibilities
- Define and execute the technical strategy for AI-powered customer success solutions across Adobe's AEP portfolio, aligning engineering initiatives with business objectives and customer outcomes
- Lead the design and development of agentic AI systems that autonomously diagnose, prevent, and resolve customer issues while accelerating adoption and value realization
- Build, mentor, and scale a world-class multidisciplinary engineering team of 15-25+ engineers, data scientists, and solution architects, fostering a culture of innovation, customer obsession, and technical excellence
- Oversee the end-to-end development lifecycle of intelligent automation systems, AI agents, and customer intelligence platforms that transform reactive support into proactive, data-driven customer success operations
- Drive the implementation of customer-facing analytics, predictive insights, and recommendation engines embedded directly into AEP's user experience to enable self-service optimization
- Champion the development of scalable automation solutions targeting 85%+ first contact resolution rates, 99.9%+ platform uptime, and measurable customer health score improvements
- Establish engineering best practices for AI model deployment, system reliability, and operational excellence while ensuring compliance with security, privacy, and regulatory standards
Other
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years in engineering leadership roles managing teams of 10+ engineers
- Exceptional communication skills with the ability to influence senior stakeholders, present to executive leadership, and drive alignment across diverse technical and business teams
- Proven ability to hire, develop, and retain top engineering talent while fostering inclusive, high-performance team cultures focused on customer outcomes
- Knowledge of customer engagement strategies, marketing automation, and digital adoption platforms
- Experience in Adobe Experience Platform (AEP) and/or Adobe Experience Platform Developer certifications a plus
