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
Adobe has enabled creative professionals to do their best work for decades. Now we're expanding our audience to empower everyone to express their stories. When we say Creativity for All, we mean it. Creative Cloud Express is a next-generation content creation platform used by millions of individuals, small businesses, social media marketers, students, and educators who want a fast, fun, and frictionless solution to media creation and sharing.
We're looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead our Android application team to enable anyone to author content like a pro.
What you'll do
* As the engineering manager for the Android Express development team, you will lead development of features in our hybrid web/native code application.
* Groom proposed features with product management, engineers, and dependent teams. Develop estimates and alternate approaches. Break up larger feature request into incremental shippable units of value.
* Empower the team to make feature decisions and development tradeoffs. Verify progress and make course corrections where needed.
* Manage a Quality Engineering team consisting of QE leads and vendor QE based manual testers. Promote processes for continual quality assurance of features even after they have shipped.
* Shepherd work as it progresses towards signoff. Find and remove impediments. Coordinate with Localization, Data Science, dependent feature teams, and collaborators.
* Mentor team members. Plan for and support their career growth.
* Propose and implement process changes to scale the overall velocity of the team
* Provide clear insight into development status and platform health to executive leadership. Facilitate investigations into emerging issues in collaboration with the larger Express organization.
* Work both independently and collaboratively within a fast paced development team, with clear, positive, and constructive communication.
What you need to succeed
* Based in San Francisco or Seattle
* 4+ years of experience as an engineering manager or similar leadership role.
* Proven experience shipping commercial mobile applications, as well as managing emerging issues and escalations from the field.
* Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
* Technical Skills:
* Experience in software development with a deep understanding of developer tools and processes, the software development lifecycle, and agile methodologies
* Familiarity with modern development tools and environments (e.g., Git, Jenkins, CI/CD, automation frameworks and tools).
* Understanding of cloud platforms and services (e.g., AWS, Azure).
* Leadership Skills:
* Excellent leadership and people management skills.
* Ability to inspire, motivate, and develop team members.
* Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
* Problem-Solving:
* Ability to navigate complex technical and organizational challenges.
Preferred Qualifications:
* Experience developing native mobile applications on both iOS and Android
* Experience managing remote vendor QE
* Knowledge of software security and privacy best practices
* Background in DevX practices and principles.
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 $146,300 -- $281,100 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.
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