Sr. Director, Applied AI/ML (Discovery)
Adobe Software
JOB LEVEL
M70/P70EMPLOYEE ROLE
People ManagerThe Opportunity:
Search, Discovery and Content Intelligence (SDC) technology is a critical part of Adobe’s products capabilities – offering AI-powered Search, Browse, Recommendations, RAG assistive workflow capabilities, and conversational agents. Adobe’s products are all about creating amazing multimedia and multimodal rich content. Creative professionals, enterprise users, and novice users alike need quick access to their digital assets, ingredients, style libraries, and the wide variety of creative content they work with every day, from brushes to colors, images, design assets, videos, audio and beyond. Users need to discover contextually inspirational rich media content, assets their teams have created or from Stock digital marketplaces, Adobe community content and more.
The SDC team powers Search, Recommendation and Assistive experiences in flagship Adobe products, including Adobe Express, Stock, Photoshop, Illustrator, Lightroom, Acrobat, and Adobe.com. We focus on developing innovative AI-powered search, recommendations, and assistive experiences using generative AI technologies across all modalities, including text, image, videos, and creating industry-leading experiences to improve creative efficiency for creators, marketers, and designers. We leverage and fine-tune LLMs, vLLMs, transformers, vector search and RAG, transformer relevance models, and neural agents to build our state-of-the-art technology stack.
We are looking for a Senior Director of Applied AI/ML (Discovery) with deep domain experience in information retrieval (IR), recommender systems, query understanding and intent AI, LLMs, relevance AI, image and language understanding, data mining, search funnel data analysis and metrics, and search UX.
What you will do:
Lead a large team of managers, applied machine learning scientists, data scientists, and search engineers to drive business impact.
Top-notch leadership experience to collaborate with partner and stakeholder teams, PM, Research and other applied research leaders across Adobe to drive value.
Leadership experience in cross-functional organizations.
Provide thought leadership to craft innovative capabilities to cater to product users’ increasing needs and expectations.
Bringing AI and technology depth to build and sustain AI foundational models for users’ needs.
Ability to deliver business results for the top of the funnel experiences through conversion, and engagement.
What you need to succeed:
Expertise in building large scale search and recommendation systems.
Deep expertise in LLM and GenAI technology. Hands on experience and expertise in building AI foundational models for intent understanding, multimedia content understanding, language understanding, and state-of-the-art relevance ML models.
Experience in assistant or conversational systems preferred.
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