Senior Manager, Machine Learning

Key Skills

Algorithms, Analytical and Problem solving, Data structuring, Generative AI, Leadership, Machine learning techniques, MLOps tools, Python Programming, Teamwork

Job Description

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!

The Opportunity

The Adobe Document Cloud's AI Team is looking for an experienced Machine Learning Manager to help with a variety of AI related projects including generative AI. The Adobe Document Cloud is responsible for technologies for building, manipulating and consuming PDF files across a range of services, mobile apps and desktop products. The flagship PDF application within DC is Adobe Acrobat, which is installed on over a billion devices and opens billions of PDFs every year. Our offerings extend beyond Acrobat to Adobe Sign, Document Cloud Platform, and Adobe Scan.

The team’s mission is to use ML to build new experiences with documents, across our entire suite of offerings. Our most recent public features are Liquid Mode, allowing a seamless reflow experience for PDFs phones and tablets; PDF Extract API for unlocking the structure and content elements of any PDF; Table Decomposition feature in Liquid Mode; and now new generative AI features. All products are driven by AI. Our team’s solutions are deployed on mobile devices, in the cloud, and on desktop.

As an ML leader, you will get to democratize (generative) AI for all, and empower a team of accomplished scientists and engineers who are dedicated to building the future of AI and documents, and delivering delightful experiences. 

Join our team as a Machine Learning Manager, and together we will create the future of generative AI and documents while fostering an environment that cultivates talent and drives innovation.

The work is dynamic, fast-paced, creative, collaborative and data-driven.

What you'll Do

As a Machine Learning Manager, you will have a wide range of responsibilities and opportunities to make significant impact on building the future of documents in DC AI team: 

• Lead a team of scientists and engineers to build and deliver new AI-driven customer-facing features end-to-end: from working closely with Adobe Research to technical design and security assessment, pipeline implementation, and delivery of customer facing features. You will take the ownership of the software's life cycle process; evolve and drive software quality and delivery process improvements by making data-driven decisions.
• Advocate for scientific and engineering excellence: You will contribute to the architecture and high-level structure of our AI-driven features. 
• Collaborate closely with customers, partners, consultants, product management and cross functional teams to keep the development team aligned with product goals
• Craft a winning culture built on collaboration, visibility, diversity, inclusivity and shared accomplishments - have fun along the way.
• Attract, hire, on-board and retain top talent, supporting and developing the team through mentorship and ongoing feedback

What you need to succeed

To succeed in this role as the Machine Learning Manager, the following skills and qualifications are needed:

• A minimum of 8 years of professional software development experience -- 3+ years of management and leadership experience leading research and engineering teams delivering large-scale, sophisticated, high quality software. 
• Technical Background: Knowledge of generative AI and experience with Python. Excellent analysis, and problem-solving skills. Solid knowledge of data structure and algorithms. Knowledge of ML Ops. Familiarity with ML services is a plus.
• Consistent track record of strong Leadership and Decision-Making skills to drive consensus on requirements and ensure timely delivery of critical customer-facing AI features. Your ability to provide guidance, prioritize tasks, and lead people effectively will be crucial to the team's success. 
• Team Development: A strong record of developing, leading, coaching, and mentoring software and machine learning engineers and scientists is vital. Your ability to cultivate a positive and growth-oriented environment, ensuring the team's professional development, is needed.
• Ability to work within a distributed international team environment.
• MS/PhD in computer science or a related technical field.

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several  U.S. geographic markets, and we pay differently based on those defined markets. The U.S. pay range for this position is $144,800 -- $289,900 annually. Pay within this range varies by work location and may also depend on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the job location during the hiring process.

At Adobe, for sales roles starting salaries are expressed as total target compensation (TTC = base + commission), and short-term incentives are in the form of sales commission plans. Non-sales roles starting salaries are expressed as base salary and short-term incentives are in the form of the Annual Incentive Plan (AIP).