The Creative Cloud Product Experience engineering team is looking for a seasoned, passionate, and hands-on Director of Engineering. You will be joining a team of product leaders, UX designers and architects re-inventing the onboarding experience (st-mile experienceor new Creative Cloud customers interacting with our flagship and next generation applications.
Our re-imagined on-boarding framework enables personalized and application specific experiences based on a deep understanding of individual usereeds and abilities. We are focusing on contextual learning journeys that combine guided templates, users' own assets and in-app tutorials to make each user successful in their specific project and at their own pace. The cloud-first architecture ensures that collaboration, sharing and intelligent search are at the core of the new workflows. We are passionate about innovating rapidly and delivering continuously. We base our decisions on the deep understanding of user behavior supported by analytics, machine learning and we strive to remove friction everywhere through fanatical commitment to design and performance. To succeed in this matrixed role we are seeking a candidate with shared vision, leadership qualities and the proven ability to execute.
Responsibilities: You will lead a multi-functional, diverse team of over 50 talented people across multiple geographies and responsible for driving all facets of implementation and the development process tablishing rigorous SDLC processes, involvement in requirement validation and negotiation, and quality assurance.
You will nurture a team culture that focuses on engineering excellence, but also encourages deep engagement with our customers and out of the box thinking.
The st mileamework is built on top of our extensibility platform to be embraced by creative applications across the desktop and mobile platforms. It will consist of in-app client-side components and SDKs, cloud services as well as machine learning models.
Evangelize the st-milemponents and act as a strong advocate for our customers and partners. High social and emotional EQ is just as vital in this role as strong technical chops!
Requirements: Strong customer empathy and demonstrated engagement with customers and partners to truly delight users.
Demonstrated ability to build a diverse team of top engineers in a competitive job market.
Strong working knowledge of modern software development methodologies and software design patterns and have experience leading & delivering significant software projects/products (Demonstrated passion for continuous development - CI/CD).
Proven ability to communicate technical concepts effectively to partner teams and to executives. Capable of working with executive leadership across the company and should be able to deftly read your audience and hold a room without breaking a sweat.
10+ years of experience in leading engineers and building world-class web and desktop applications (MacOS, Win32). Mobile is a plus.
A consistent record of leading the development and delivery of large-scale product offerings and systems within a high growth, global, matrixed environment.
Very strong analytical skills cluding requirements analysis, debugging and risk assessment.
Technical curiosity nting to understand how things work and how they could work better.
Familiar with web analytics, production A/B testing and cohort engagement analysis.
Knowledgeable in modern web frameworks and technologies like React, React Native.
Excellent social, writing and verbal communication skills.
BS or MS in Computer Science or related field.
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