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Are you passionate about leading and growing engineering teams? Do you enjoy solving design and engineering problems at scale? Adobe Design is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to join our Spectrum Design System team, focusing on Android and Web component development. The Spectrum team connects design and technology, offering Adobe tools, components, infrastructure, and services for precise design and consistent user experiences across various products.
You will lead a framework team focused on building Android component and web component libraries for our design system. These components are used across multiple products at Adobe—from Photoshop to Adobe Express to Illustrator and more. Your engineering expertise will be important in helping us build libraries that implement Spectrum, meet the architecture requirements for customer product teams, and allow for contribution from other teams.
In planning activities, management team members participate in feature discovery, system architecture, requirements definition, project scope, and delivery. They also offer technical mentorship, career guidance, and performance assessment for their team. You will lead this work and play a crucial role in ensuring Spectrum is available to our customers in a timely, stable, and scalable manner.
Build cool things! You’ll work on diverse and living component libraries that solve real problems for Adobe’s designers and engineers.
Have meaningful ownership. You’ll make important decisions about how we build and grow. Your ability to find, assess, and develop new opportunities will be essential to our team.
Grow. You’ll sharpen your skills and learn how to take ownership of important aspects of our design system.
Collaborate with the Spectrum design team to ensure Spectrum's aesthetic and API fits well into an Android context
Partner with product engineering to define, build, and validate the implementation of Spectrum in Adobe’s Android and web products
Create a strong contribution model for our libraries and frameworks so that product teams can contribute to and help grow our design system
Integrate your team’s work with the systems, infrastructure, and services that support the design system
Influence and mentor the technical direction and standard of quality for engineering, testing, and delivery
Collaborate and communicate effectively with both Spectrum and product leadership to prioritize work, set delivery timelines, and provide accurate project status to all partners
Work with your team and partners to understand design requirements and communicate engineering concerns back to design
Assist your team in identifying and making progress toward career development goals, regular performance feedback, technical growth, and skills coaching
Be responsible for the process for hiring and training as your team grows
Provide support for hiring on peer engineering and design teams within the Spectrum organization
5+ years as an engineering leader driving technical strategy, people management, and technical project planning
Demonstrated ability working with enterprise software teams and product teams
Technical experience and history of building Android applications and a strong understanding of the Android platform and idioms. You have a strong understanding of the Android ecosystem, including experience with Android Studio, Kotlin, and Java
Technical experience and history of building web applications
Solid understanding of UI accessibility practices, standards, and testing methods
Experience working with partners to inform product roadmap planning
Proven success in leading a team, including mentorship on technical, communication, and other aspects of career growth
Skilled in facilitating and delivering feedback and improvement for team members
Proven ability to drive engineering excellence within and across teams
Prior experience building shared components, UI frameworks, and other foundational tooling
Experience with common build and deploy strategies for packaging, distributing, and testing Android projects
Experience building and/or working with teams using web standards-based development like Web Components.
Comfortable directing improvements to overall app architecture, testing processes, and external service integrations
Familiarity with the concepts behind design systems and how they are being applied in product development
Practice with open development, collaborative code reviews, and providing detailed feedback to other team members
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