Adobe

Engineering Manager

Adobe Basel, Basel-City, Switzerland

Software Development · 10,001+ employees

18 h ago
engineering-manager Principal (10+ yrs) Full-time Switzerland
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About the role

Lead an engineering team to deliver high-quality, scalable solutions for the Adobe Experience Manager platform. Partner with enterprise customers and cross-functional stakeholders to shape product strategy and resolve technical ambiguity.

What they look for

Software Engineering Team Leadership Java JavaScript Node.js Python AI-assisted Development Architecture Review Automated Quality Enforcement Product Strategy Stakeholder Management Technical Discovery Cloud Platforms API Development System Design

Requirements

Requires 8+ years of software engineering experience with a proven track record of technical leadership and business acumen. Candidates must possess strong programming skills and experience in building automated quality systems and AI-driven workflows.

Full description

The Opportunity 

Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Assets is Adobe's Digital Asset Management platform - an Analyst- and Market-ranked Leader in the category for over a decade, serving top Fortune 100 and 500 customers across segments. 

AEM Assets is a centralized, connected content foundation which intelligently and actively surfaces the right assets, guides usage with compliance and adapts content for marketers and experience authors, enabling creation and launch of marketing content with confidence, across channels and audience segments. 

Built at web-scale - AEM Assets serves as a foundational, agentic platform for customers and their agencies. It connects upstream creative workflows to downstream omnichannel asset delivery while efficiently managing AI-driven content explosion to land campaigns at scale with efficiency, compliance, and governance. AEM Assets connects downstream outcomes and engagement back to upstream content operations, continuously optimizing content velocity and brand visibility across the human and agentic web. 

If you're excited by the opportunity to shape the vision and innovate - to develop and deliver the next generation of value for our customers and practitioners - this is the place for you! 

How We Build 

  • We co-innovate with customers and practitioners by default - understanding, learning and working together with practitioners to solve real problems. 
  • We build with AI - fast, iterative, and grounded in real usage. 
  • We care about outcomes: the goal is to produce what gets adopted and used. 

What You'll Bring 

  • Experience Depth. 8+ years of software engineering experience, including direct technical leadership of a team. 
  • Proven Team Leadership. A track record of leading engineering teams to real, delivered outcomes. 
  • Customer-Facing Ownership. Experience working directly with customers to resolve ambiguity and shape strategic direction. 
  • Cross-Functional Influence. Comfortable operating with senior stakeholders across the org, not just within engineering. 
  • Technical Credibility. Still hands-on — leads the team through technical depth, not around it. 
  • Business Acumen. Thinks like an owner of the business — looks for ways to grow it and run it more efficiently, with customer value as the constant measure. 
  • Strong programming skills in a primary programming language, and contribution capability in the rest (preferred: Java, JavaScript/Node.js, Python) 
  • Strong intellectual curiosity and comfort thriving in ambiguity 
  • Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development tools (i.e., Claude Code, Codex, or similar) 
  • Comfortable partnering directly with enterprise customers — running technical discovery and translating findings into production-ready specs 
  • Brings a "you build it, you run it" mindset — plans, codes, tests, deploys, operates, and continuously improves what you build 
  • Experience reviewing architecture, technology choices, and design decisions, and helping teammates grow 
  • Track record of building automated quality enforcement — gates, structural tests, accountability models — that scale without relying on individual discipline 
  • Comfortable prototyping quickly across frontend, backend, APIs, and agent-based systems, using rapid PoCs to drive product decisions 

About Adobe

Adobe empowers everyone to create through innovative platforms and tools that unleash creativity, productivity and personalized customer experiences. Adobe’s industry-leading offerings including Adobe Acrobat Studio, Adobe Express, Adobe Firefly, Creative Cloud, Adobe Experience Platform, Adobe Experience Manager, and GenStudio enable people and businesses to turn ideas into impact, powered by AI and driven by human ingenuity.

Our 30,000+ employees worldwide are creating the future and raising the bar as we drive the next decade of growth. We’re on a mission to hire the very best and believe in creating a company culture where all employees are empowered to make an impact. At Adobe, we believe that great ideas can come from anywhere in the organization. The next big idea could be yours. 

Let’s Adobe together

At Adobe, we believe in creating a company culture where all employees are empowered to make an impact. Learn more about Adobe life, including our values and culture, focus on people, purpose and community, Adobe for All, comprehensive benefits programs, the stories we tell, the customers we serve, and how you can help us advance our mission of empowering everyone to create.

Adobe is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on gender, race or color, ethnicity or national origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic. Learn more.

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