Jobs / United States / Adobe INC
Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering, Creative AI
Adobe INC · 🇺🇸 2 Locations
Sponsorship verdict
Sponsorship possible
One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 1,036 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 221 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Adobe INC paid sponsored hires in similar roles2 certified filings for “Engineering Program Manager” (Industrial Engineers) in CA: $120k–$225k, median $173k. Most were filed at wage level II (50%) — 2 lottery entries, ≈31% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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Sponsor Radar — Adobe INC
The US Department of Labor certified 1,036 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 221 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
Elite full-stack engineer. Elite creative-tool expert. Elite public speaker who commands Fortune 100 boardrooms. Now do it as a player-coach — and make your team elite at all three too. Read this before you apply. This role requires all four of the following — at the same time, in the same person. Not three out of four. • You ship production code every week — real, full-stack systems that run in front of real customers. Not scripts. Not prototypes that die after the demo. Not “I used to code.” • You have deep, professional-grade mastery of at least one of: Figma, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects, Premiere Pro, Cinema 4D or Substance 3D — or an equivalent tool in your craft. Not familiarity. Mastery. • You can walk into a room of CMOs and CTOs from a Fortune 100 brand, run a live demo unscripted, and walk out with the room won. • You’ve hired, grown, and performance-managed engineers — you can point to someone who’s more senior today because of you, and a hard call (a PIP, a coach-out) you’ve actually made, not just managed. This bar has to be met on day one, not grown into. If you’re three-quarters there, that’s genuinely great — just come back when the fourth is true too. What you’ll do 50/50, player-coach. Half your week: in the code, in the customer’s room, running the demo yourself. The other half: hiring people better than you, coaching your team to earn the same adoption you do, making the whole bench sharper . T he only metric that matters here: did the customer get real value, and did they come back for more — across your whole team’s accounts, not just the ones you personally touch. That’s the entire job. Everything else is noise. What you need • 8–10 years shipping real software, full-stack, with active production code — not historical • 2+ years as a direct people manager • Deep hands-on mastery of a professional creative tool (see above) — a portfolio proving it • Hands-on experience building multi-step automated workflows/pipelines (ComfyUI, n8n, or similar) • A track record of turning resistance into adoption yourself — and of building a team that repeats it, not a one-person hero act • A named senior customer stakeholder and a named decision you drove with them in the last 12 months • Hard requirement: public portfolio or verifiable shipped work showing both the engineering and creative side, personally done by you. No portfolio, no review. Strong pluses (not required, we’ll help you ramp) • Experience with Adobe Firefly Services, Firefly Creative Production / Workflow Builder, or Adobe Brand Intelligence • Domain depth in Healthcare & Life Sciences, Financial Services, or Media & Entertainment — especially MLR (medical/legal/regulatory) compliance-review experience • DevOps fluency 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, inclu