Forward Deployed Creative Technologist

We are seeking a talented Forward Deployed Creative Technologist who can embed with enterprise customers, learn their content supply chain end-to-end, and craft custom AI-powered creative workflows on top of Adobe Firefly Services and Firefly Creative Production.

Summary

• Embed with enterprise customers. Learn their brand, their creative team, their content supply chain, and the metrics their CMO cares about.

• Translate a customer brief into a working creative workflow. Compose Firefly Services APIs (Firefly, Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Express, Lightroom, Substance 3D, Audio/Video) and Workflow Builder nodes into something that actually runs. Build Figma plugins or design-system integrations when the customer's creative team works there.

• Build thin front-ends (or conversational experiences) and light back-ends (App Builder, Azure Functions, AWS Lambda). Ship a working URL the customer uses this quarter, not a PowerPoint.

• Build custom workflow nodes when existing ones fall short. Push reusable ones upstream.

• Integrate with the customer's stack — AEM Assets, Workfront, Frame.io, their DAM, their PIM, their brand portal. Negotiate auth, debug API quirks, own the edge cases.

• Train the customer's team. Document. Hand off cleanly so the customer self-serves when you rotate to the next engagement.

• Demo your work yourself — script, produce, edit. Show real creative outcomes, not abstract slides.

Experience

• 5–10 years straddling creative production AND technical building. You have shipped both: real creative work (motion, design, video, 3D, photography, brand systems) AND real technical work (apps, integrations, plugins, automation).

• Creative content supply chain fluency. You understand how briefs become assets, how brand systems and design tokens work, how master files become channel variants, how creative teams hand off through Figma / PSD / INDD to DAM and review-and-approval.

• Firefly Services + Workflow Builder fluency — or evidence you ramp on a new API surface in days, not months. Adobe ecosystem depth (AEM, Workfront, Frame.io, App Builder) is a strong plus, as is Figma plugin / API fluency.

• Vibe-coding with judgment. You use Cursor / Claude Code / Copilot daily and ship fast. You also know when AI output is wrong, when error handling is missing, when the prompt needs more context. Production code, not prototype-only.

• Extreme ownership and a GSD attitude. When the integration breaks before a CMO demo, you fix it — you don't escalate. You own outcomes end-to-end, from broken auth to a missed brand-compliance check. You ship ugly first and refuse to let process slow you down.

• Extreme customer orientation. You hold the room with CMOs, creative directors, and heads of IT. You hear a customer pain and respond with a credible, impact-focused, creative solution. You translate tech to ROI without losing the engineers in the room.

• A great nose for the money. You instinctively connect what you build to business outcomes (ie: time-to-activation, cost per variant, brand-compliance pass rate, campaign velocity.)

• A passion for coding and tinkering. A deep interest in generative AI and creative workflows. You explore adjacent orchestration tools — ComfyUI for visual workflow prototyping, n8n / Zapier / Power Automate for low-code connectors, LangGraph / LangChain for agentic flows.

• A public portfolio — link or PDF at application. Must show shipped creative work AND shipped technical artifacts.

This is a hard requirement; applications without a portfolio will not be reviewed.

What we're not looking for:

• Backend-only or distributed-systems engineers with no creative practitioner background.

• Pure designers or creatives who can't stand up a working integration.

• ML / AI researchers who are not interested in customer outcomes.

• PMs / consultants who don't ship. Every team member writes code AND produces creative work.