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Overview
Adobe is an American software company founded in 1982 by John Warnock and Charles Geschke and headquartered in San Jose, California. It created the PostScript and PDF formats and built the industry-standard creative toolset around Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, After Effects and InDesign, now delivered as the Creative Cloud subscription. The company also runs Document Cloud for electronic signatures and document workflows, Experience Cloud for enterprise marketing analytics and personalisation, and the commercially safe Firefly family of generative AI models.
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Stack modernity
77/100
How modern this stack is, based on technology relevance, AI adoption and the share of legacy tools.
In-demand technologies
AI Agents
134 jobs
Required
$282k
+28% vs market
Python
118 jobs
Required
$265k
+47% vs market
JavaScript
91 job
Required
$258k
+61% vs market
AWS
89 jobs
Required
$265k
+43% vs market
CI/CD
76 jobs
Required
$261k
+63% vs market
LLM
72 jobs
Required
$274k
+37% vs market
Kubernetes
68 jobs
Required
$265k
+49% vs market
Azure
67 jobs
Required
$272k
+62% vs market
Salary medians are calculated from this company's open jobs and compared with the market.
Industry adoption
Python
21%
JavaScript
18%
CI/CD
17%
AWS
17%
SQL
16%
TypeScript
15%
Share of companies in the same industry that use each technology.
Stack changes
Microsoft Fabric
Aug 2026
ServiceNow
Aug 2026
AWS Step Functions
Aug 2026
ISO 42001
Aug 2026
Time Series Forecasting
Aug 2026
Replit
Aug 2026
Amazon SageMaker
Aug 2026
GitLab
Aug 2026
Technologies recently added to or removed from this company's stack - a signal of tech migrations and new initiatives.
Jobgether
Weekday
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Booz Allen Hamilton
Bosch
Emagine
Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$281k
Typical range
$164k – $429k
Open positions
249
237
Jobs
Junior
2.5%
Middle
7.6%
Senior
51.5%
Staff
16.5%
Principal
12.2%
Architect
9.7%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Junior | 6 | $211k | $179k – $239k |
| Middle | 18 | $215k | $164k – $258k |
| Senior | 122 | $261k | $184k – $429k |
| Staff | 39 | $302k | $235k – $352k |
| Principal | 29 | $282k | $254k – $388k |
| Architect | 23 | $323k | $227k – $429k |
Highest paying role
Sr. Director of Engineering - Mixed Media Authoring
$429k
Normalized to USD per year
Products
Adobe Firefly
Firefly is Adobe's family of generative models for images, vector art, video and audio, trained on licensed and public domain content. It is embedded across the creative applications and offered as a standalone web service.
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Adobe Experience Cloud
Experience Cloud is Adobe's enterprise marketing suite covering analytics, content management, campaign orchestration and personalisation. It is used by large brands to run customer journeys across channels.
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Creative Cloud
Creative Cloud is the subscription bundle that delivers Adobe's creative applications, fonts, stock assets and cloud storage. It covers photography, design, video, audio and three-dimensional work.
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Acrobat
Acrobat is Adobe's suite for creating, editing, signing and managing PDF documents. It anchors the Document Cloud business alongside the Adobe Sign electronic signature service.
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Photoshop
Photoshop is Adobe's image editing and compositing application and the long-standing industry standard for raster graphics. It now includes generative fill and expand features powered by the Firefly models.
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People
David Wadhwani
President, Digital Media Business
David Wadhwani runs Adobe's Creative Cloud and Document Cloud businesses. He returned to the company in 2021 after leading AppDynamics and investing at Greylock Partners.
Dan Durn
Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
Dan Durn leads Adobe's finance, technology services and legal organisations. He joined in 2021 after serving as chief financial officer of Applied Materials.
Shantanu Narayen
Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer
Shantanu Narayen has led Adobe since 2007 and moved it from boxed software to a subscription and cloud business. He joined the company in 1998 and previously co-founded a photo sharing startup.
Charles Geschke
Co-Founder & former President
Charles Geschke co-founded Adobe with John Warnock after both left Xerox PARC. He served as president and later co-chairman and died in 2021.
John Warnock
Co-Founder & former Chief Executive Officer
John Warnock co-founded Adobe in 1982 and invented the PostScript page description language that launched desktop publishing. He led the company as chief executive until 2000 and died in 2023.
Growth
Hiring Momentum
69/100
Growing
Open positions
361
12 opened / 10 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
23 days
faster than 50% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~7 hours
08/31/2026
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Backend
28% ▲
Product
19% ▼
AI/ML
16% ▲
Design
6%
Data Science
6%
Security
3% ▼
Actively hiring for Backend (+46 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
New location: Waltham
Aug 2026
New location: Ottawa
Aug 2026
New location: Melbourne
Aug 2026
New location: Sydney
Aug 2026
New location: Washington
Aug 2026
New location: Barcelona
Aug 2026
New location: Munich
Aug 2026
New location: Berlin
Aug 2026
New location: Hong Kong
Aug 2026
New location: Paris
Aug 2026
New location: Germany
Aug 2026
Added SaltStack to stack
Aug 2026
Jobs
$148k – $236k per year • Equity • In office • Full-Time • 4+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Seattle • Atlanta • Lehi • New York • Chicago
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$114k – $215k per year • Equity • In office • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Seattle • San Francisco • San Jose
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New Relic
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$178k – $289k per year • Equity • Remote • Full-Time • 4+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Washington
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$139k – $258k per year • Equity • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • New York • San Francisco • San Jose
Python
Rust
PHP
Drupal
WordPress
DevOps
CI/CD
Docker
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GitOps
New Relic
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Splunk
Design
Adobe Photoshop
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$178k – $289k per year • Equity • Remote • Full-Time • 4+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • New York
PHP
JavaScript
Magento
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React.js
Mobile
React Native
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$139k – $258k per year • Equity • In office • Full-Time • 7+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • San Jose
C++
Java
Python
TypeScript
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JQuery
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$174k – $331k per year • Equity • In office • Full-Time • 12+ years exp • San Francisco
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Adobe Photoshop
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$139k – $258k per year • Equity • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • San Jose
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LLM
RAG
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Lit
npm
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Web Components
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$159k – $302k per year • Equity • In office • Full-Time • 10+ years exp • San Jose
Java
Scala
Apache Hudi
Apache Iceberg
Apache Kafka
Databricks
AI/ML
Hadoop
Spark
DevOps
ArgoCD
CI/CD
GitOps
Jenkins
Kubernetes
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$178k – $289k per year • Equity • Remote • Full-Time • 4+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Washington
PHP
JavaScript
Magento
AI/ML
AI Agents
Frontend
React.js
Mobile
React Native
DevOps
Rest API
Marketing
Marketo
Salesforce
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$159k – $302k per year • Equity • In office • Full-Time • 10+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • San Francisco • San Jose
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Node JS
TypeScript
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$114k – $215k per year • Equity • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • San Francisco
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Financials
Est. Annual Revenue
$21.5B
2024
Total raised
$6M
Latest round
IPO
Funding rounds
1
Revenue
+11% YoY
Estimate
Modelled from public signals, not audited accounts - read it as an order of magnitude.
| Year | Estimate | Low | High |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | $4.1B | $4.1B | $4.1B |
| 2014 | $4.1B | $4.1B | $4.1B |
| 2015 | $4.8B | $4.8B | $4.8B |
| 2016 | $5.9B | $5.9B | $5.9B |
| 2017 | $7.3B | $7.3B | $7.3B |
| 2018 | $9B | $9B | $9B |
| 2019 | $11.2B | $11.2B | $11.2B |
| 2020 | $12.9B | $12.9B | $12.9B |
| 2021 | $15.8B | $15.8B | $15.8B |
| 2022 | $17.6B | $17.6B | $17.6B |
| 2023 | $19.4B | $19.4B | $19.4B |
| 2024 | $21.5B | $21.5B | $21.5B |
Funding rounds
| Round | Announced | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| IPO | 1986 | $6M |