Director, Software Development

What you ll do

• Understand business strategy by working closely with higher management, product management, sales, marketing, and OEM account management teams
• Interact regularly with customers, and establish relationships at the right level with engineering counterparts
• Drive strategy, architecture and development goals for various products using customer requirements and business goals
• Articulate the roadmap to internal teams as well as customer executives
• Ensure all products and solutions are delivered within the committed schedule
• Challenge the teams to innovate and deliver better products and solutions
• Partner with Product Managers to define and refine the product roadmaps
• Review, approve and monitor project plans and schedules of products
• Ensure the right staffing of each development team
• Act as an Innovation Catalyst to foster innovation in the team and create a technical roadmap
• Evangelize your products both internally and externally
• Ensure adherence to Adobe policies and processes for product development as well as people management
• Encourage interaction across teams, ensure reuse of technologies across products, wherever possible
• Participate in hiring top talents, for the Print Technology group as well as for broader Adobe needs
• Demonstrate Adobe Values and create a culture where everyone is valued

• More than 20 years experience working in the Software development industry including at least 8 years as a people manager
• Adept at handling multiple teams - must have at least 4 years experience as a third-level manager
• Excellent people management, communication and presentation skills
• Proven ability to drive innovation, deep and hands-on understanding of C, C++ & Embedded Technologies
• Self-starter, passion to delight customers, willingness to walk the extra mile
• Relationships building with customers and internal stakeholders
• B.Tech / M.Tech degree in Computer Science from a premier institute