Adobe · 12 hours ago
Director, AI VFX Engineering
Los Angeles, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Director/Executive
$206K/yr - $385K/yr
12+ years expAdobe is a company focused on changing the world through digital experiences. They are seeking a Director to lead the GenAI Field Architecture practice for VFX, managing a team of senior VFX engineers and architects, while driving executive engagement and scaling Firefly adoption in the media and entertainment industry.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)ConsultingEnterprise SoftwareGraphic DesignImage RecognitionPhoto EditingSaaSSoftwareUX DesignWeb Design
Responsibilities
Build & lead a team: Hire, develop, and mentor a high-performing group of VFX engineers and workflow experts
Executive engagement: Represent Firefly Foundry with the media and entertainment leaders; guide your team to deliver executive design reviews, workshops, and thought leadership
Codify best practices: Establish and evolve reference patterns for creative workflow blueprints, prompt/evaluation pipelines, campaign scalability, and governance guardrails
Support complex problem-solving: Provide leadership and escalation frameworks as your team tackles fidelity, throughput, quality, and authenticity of new VFX workflows with Generative AI
Integration strategy: Oversee enterprise integration across Adobe surfaces apps (Firefly, Photoshop, Premiere Pro, After Effects, Substance 3D, Frame.io), and DAM/MAM systems; empower your team to lead implementations
Ecosystem leadership: Direct partners and customers’ blueprint creation in terms of how to work with our new workflows and technologies, validate delivery against our standards, and scale
Drive measurable value: Ensure your team translates creative and business priorities into ROI/TCO metrics that influence customer expansions
Qualification
Required
12+ years of developing and shipping VFX solutions in film and other M&E industries (e.g., gaming)
2+ years developing and working with Generative AI solutions (e.g., ComfyUI) for VFX, production, and post-production (in animation, or live action)
5+ years in people leadership roles, managing VFX engineering teams (direct reports, hiring, coaching, career development)
Deep understanding of M&E production, post-production, and VFX workflows
Familiarity in Generative AI solution patterns: prompt design & evaluation, guardrails, observability/measurement, vectorized retrieval, style constraints, and cost governance
Strong technical depth across Software and tooling for VFX; ability to evaluate trade-offs without being the primary implementer
Executive presence with studio leadership; exceptional written communication (1-pagers, decision records, reference designs)
Preferred
Portfolio of contributions to A-list movies, or other productions
Benefits
Annual Incentive Plan (AIP)
Long-term incentives in the form of a new hire equity award
Company
Adobe
Adobe is a software company that provides its users with digital marketing and media solutions.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$2.5MKey Investors
Apple
1986-08-20IPO
1984-10-01Series Unknown· $2.5M
Leadership Team
Shantanu Narayen
CEO
Dan Durn
Chief Financial Officer
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