Mobile Engineering Manager - Adobe Scan
Adobe is hiring a Mobile Engineering Manager - Adobe Scan in San Jose, United States. It pays $148k-$293k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Adobe.
Level's read on this job
- Level rates this role Uses AI ●●○○: an ordinary role that requires AI tools.
- Tools and skills the posting cites include Android, mobile development and engineering management.
- Level classifies it as a lead role.
- Level lists 285 other open roles at Adobe.
- The role was posted within the past week.
AI in this role
Lead the Android mobile engineering team for Adobe Scan, encouraging adoption of modern development practices including AI-assisted workflows.
The Opportunity
Adobe Scan is one of the world's most widely used document capture applications, helping millions of users transform physical documents into high-quality digital assets every day. As we continue to invest in our core product experience, we're looking for a Mobile Engineering Manager to lead the Android team responsible for delivering reliable, intuitive, and high-quality scanning workflows.
This role spans the core Scan experience—from capture and editing to organization and sharing—and focuses on delivering a roadmap that drives user value, performance, and stability. You'll lead an engineering team and partner across Product, Design, and Engineering to build impactful mobile experiences at scale.
What You'll Do
- Lead and mentor a team of Android engineers, fostering ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement.
- Drive execution of the product roadmap, partnering with Product and Design to deliver intuitive, customer-centric mobile experiences.
- Balance short-term delivery with long-term investments in architecture, quality, scalability, and developer productivity.
- Provide technical and executional leadership, guiding architecture, key engineering decisions, and cross-platform alignment.
- Partner with ML, imaging, backend, and cross-platform teams to deliver seamless end-to-end experiences.
- Encourage adoption of modern development practices and tools, including AI-assisted workflows.
- Grow and develop a high-performing team through coaching, hiring, and thoughtful leadership.
What You'll Need to Succeed
- 10+ years of software engineering experience with a strong background in mobile development.
- 5+ years of experience managing software engineering teams and delivering high-quality mobile products.
- Strong technical foundation in mobile architecture, performance optimization, and application lifecycle management.
- Experience building end-to-end product experiences that integrate with backend systems and APIs.
- Strong communication and organizational skills, with the ability to drive clarity and alignment across teams, building trust, and delivering in a collaborative environment
- Demonstrated commitment to engineering excellence, including testing, maintainability, and operational stability.
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, including our values and culture, focus on people, purpose and community, Adobe for All, comprehensive benefits programs, the stories we tell, the customers we serve, and how you can help us advance our mission of empowering everyone to create.
Adobe is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on gender, race or color, ethnicity or national origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic. Learn more.
Adobe aims to make our Careers website and recruiting process accessible to any and all users. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation to navigate our website or complete the application process, email accommodations@adobe.com.
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Our interviews are designed to reflect your own skills and thinking. The use of AI or recording tools during live interviews is not permitted unless explicitly invited by the interviewer or approved in advance as part of a reasonable accommodation. If these tools are used inappropriately or in a way that misrepresents your work, your application may not move forward in the process.
At Adobe, we empower employees to innovate with AI — and we look for candidates eager to do the same. As part of the hiring experience, we provide clear guidance on where AI is encouraged during the process and where it’s restricted during live interviews. See how we think about AI in the hiring experience.
Expected Pay Range:
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several U.S. geographic markets, and we pay differently based on those defined markets. The U.S. pay range for this position is $147,900 - $293,250 annually. Pay within this range varies by work location and may also depend on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the job location during the hiring process. In California, the pay range for this position is $202,500 - $293,250At Adobe, for sales roles starting salaries are expressed as total target compensation (TTC = base + commission), and short-term incentives are in the form of sales commission plans. Non-sales roles starting salaries are expressed as base salary and short-term incentives are in the form of the Annual Incentive Plan (AIP).
In addition, certain roles may be eligible for long-term incentives in the form of a new hire equity award.
State-Specific Notices:
California:
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Colorado:
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If this role is open to hiring in Colorado (as listed on the job posting), the application window will remain open until at least the date and time stated above in Pacific Time, in compliance with Colorado pay transparency regulations. If this role does not have Colorado listed as a hiring location, no specific application window applies, and the posting may close at any time based on hiring needs.
Massachusetts:
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How we rate this
Mobile Engineering Manager - Adobe Scan at Adobe rates 45 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Uses AI (AI Level 2 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
Uses AI. An ordinary role that requires AI tools.
- ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
- ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
- ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
- ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39
Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.
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- Tell me about a project where mobile development was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where engineering management was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where team leadership was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where mobile architecture was part of your work. What did you do?
- Walk me through how you've used Android in your day-to-day work.
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- List these exact terms on your resume: Mobile Development, Engineering Management, Team Leadership, Mobile Architecture, and Android. An applicant tracking system matches the wording, not the idea.
- Attach one line of real, concrete experience to at least one of them. A tool named with nothing behind it rarely survives a human read.
- Put the AI tool in a bullet point about what you did, not just in a skills list. This role treats it as a required part of the job.
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