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Adobe is building the infrastructure that keeps its product language clear, consistent, and high quality as the company grows. This role builds the systems that make it work at scale.
As Content Systems Architect, you’re responsible for the architecture that turns Adobe’s editorial and AI-generated language standards into working systems. Those systems are the models, agents, and platform integrations that apply the standards across Adobe’s products.
You decide how a standard shows up in the tools teams use, how it gets built in, and how it stays current as the standard changes. You lead how standards are modeled and integrated across Adobe’s internal AI platforms and tools, and you keep those systems traceable to the standards they encode.
You work as a peer to senior leaders in design systems, product, engineering, and content strategy. This is a senior individual contributor role with impact across multiple product areas.
Lead the Implementation Architecture
- Define how terminology, patterns, and guidance are modeled in the system, so standards can be built and reused.
- Translate editorial standards, playbooks, and standards for AI-generated language into structured formats that systems can apply consistently.
- Define the technical and system requirements for the skills and agents that encode Adobe’s language standards.
- Lead the architecture modeling and implementation patterns that keep structured content inputs consistent and reusable across the system.
- Work from Adobe’s established content and language standards, and express them in forms that implement cleanly.
Build the Skills and Agents That Apply the Standards
- Build the system-level agents that apply shared standards across domains, and the skill that packages them into a single capability a designer can invoke.
- Build domain-level agents and skills that apply shared standards within a specific product, workflow, or business domain.
- Integrate these across Adobe’s AI platforms and tools, so standards show up accurately in each.
Operate and Evaluate the Delivery Platform
- Stand up and maintain the integration of standards into the enterprise delivery platform. This is ongoing work, not a one-time build.
- Provide clear specifications for how content rules, terminology, and patterns should work in the platform, and check the implementation against the standards.
- Identify and resolve gaps between the intended standards and what the platform can do.
- Keep evaluating whether the platform serves the standards, and recommend changes (including moving to a different platform) if it doesn’t.
Enable Teams on the System
- Teach teams how the system works: how standards are modeled, applied, and maintained across tools.
- Document the system so other teams can build on it.
- Support teams as they adopt system-level and domain-level skills and agents in their own workflows.
Steward Standards-to-System Traceability
- Keep clear traceability between standards and how they’re implemented across tools and platforms.
- Make sure changes to standards are reflected accurately in the systems that implement them.
- Catch gaps, inconsistencies, and edge cases during implementation, and flag them so the standards can be updated.
IMPACT
- Turn Adobe’s UX language standards into working, scalable systems.
- Keep standards represented accurately across Adobe’s AI platforms and tools.
- Make content systems more reliable and easier to scale across products.
- Reduce drift between the standards and the systems that implement them.
WHAT YOU BRING
- Experience in content design, content strategy, or UX writing in product environments, with depth in structured content or design systems.
- A track record of turning standards and guidance into systems that scale.
- Comfort with content tooling and AI/LLM platforms. Experience integrating standards into LLM-based systems is a strong plus.
- Systems and architecture thinking. You’re comfortable modeling how standards are represented and enforced across tools.
- Strong attention to detail, and an eye for inconsistencies or gaps in complex systems.
- Comfortable working as a senior individual contributor alongside editorial, AI, and operations teams.
WHAT THIS ROLE IS NOT
- Not editorial standard-setting or voice and tone definition
- Not AI behavior governance or policy
- Not platform rollout, adoption programs, or measurement
- Not product-level content decisions or UI copy (that lives with embedded product and domain content teams)
It’s an implementation role. The job is making UX language standards work across Adobe’s tools and platforms.
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 or call +1 408-536-3015.
AI USE GUIDELINES FOR INTERVIEWS:
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 $146,300 - $274,300 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 $189,400 - $274,300.
At 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:
Fair Chance Ordinances
Adobe will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with state and local laws and “fair chance” ordinances.
Colorado:
Application Window Notice
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:
Massachusetts Legal Notice
It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.
ABOUT THE ROLE
Adobe is building the infrastructure that keeps its product language clear, consistent, and high quality as the company grows. This role builds the systems that make it work at scale.
As Content Systems Architect, you’re responsible for the architecture that turns Adobe’s editorial and AI-generated language standards into working systems. Those systems are the models, agents, and platform integrations that apply the standards across Adobe’s products.
You decide how a standard shows up in the tools teams use, how it gets built in, and how it stays current as the standard changes. You lead how standards are modeled and integrated across Adobe’s internal AI platforms and tools, and you keep those systems traceable to the standards they encode.
You work as a peer to senior leaders in design systems, product, engineering, and content strategy. This is a senior individual contributor role with impact across multiple product areas.
Lead the Implementation Architecture
- Define how terminology, patterns, and guidance are modeled in the system, so standards can be built and reused.
- Translate editorial standards, playbooks, and standards for AI-generated language into structured formats that systems can apply consistently.
- Define the technical and system requirements for the skills and agents that encode Adobe’s language standards.
- Lead the architecture modeling and implementation patterns that keep structured content inputs consistent and reusable across the system.
- Work from Adobe’s established content and language standards, and express them in forms that implement cleanly.
Build the Skills and Agents That Apply the Standards
- Build the system-level agents that apply shared standards across domains, and the skill that packages them into a single capability a designer can invoke.
- Build domain-level agents and skills that apply shared standards within a specific product, workflow, or business domain.
- Integrate these across Adobe’s AI platforms and tools, so standards show up accurately in each.
Operate and Evaluate the Delivery Platform
- Stand up and maintain the integration of standards into the enterprise delivery platform. This is ongoing work, not a one-time build.
- Provide clear specifications for how content rules, terminology, and patterns should work in the platform, and check the implementation against the standards.
- Identify and resolve gaps between the intended standards and what the platform can do.
- Keep evaluating whether the platform serves the standards, and recommend changes (including moving to a different platform) if it doesn’t.
Enable Teams on the System
- Teach teams how the system works: how standards are modeled, applied, and maintained across tools.
- Document the system so other teams can build on it.
- Support teams as they adopt system-level and domain-level skills and agents in their own workflows.
Steward Standards-to-System Traceability
- Keep clear traceability between standards and how they’re implemented across tools and platforms.
- Make sure changes to standards are reflected accurately in the systems that implement them.
- Catch gaps, inconsistencies, and edge cases during implementation, and flag them so the standards can be updated.
IMPACT
- Turn Adobe’s UX language standards into working, scalable systems.
- Keep standards represented accurately across Adobe’s AI platforms and tools.
- Make content systems more reliable and easier to scale across products.
- Reduce drift between the standards and the systems that implement them.
WHAT YOU BRING
- Experience in content design, content strategy, or UX writing in product environments, with depth in structured content or design systems.
- A track record of turning standards and guidance into systems that scale.
- Comfort with content tooling and AI/LLM platforms. Experience integrating standards into LLM-based systems is a strong plus.
- Systems and architecture thinking. You’re comfortable modeling how standards are represented and enforced across tools.
- Strong attention to detail, and an eye for inconsistencies or gaps in complex systems.
- Comfortable working as a senior individual contributor alongside editorial, AI, and operations teams.
WHAT THIS ROLE IS NOT
- Not editorial standard-setting or voice and tone definition
- Not AI behavior governance or policy
- Not platform rollout, adoption programs, or measurement
- Not product-level content decisions or UI copy (that lives with embedded product and domain content teams)
It’s an implementation role. The job is making UX language standards work across Adobe’s tools and platforms.
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 or call +1 408-536-3015.
AI USE GUIDELINES FOR INTERVIEWS:
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 $146,300 - $274,300 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 $189,400 - $274,300.
At 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:
Fair Chance Ordinances
Adobe will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with state and local laws and “fair chance” ordinances.
Colorado:
Application Window Notice
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:
Massachusetts Legal Notice
It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.
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Which companies sponsor visas for content managers in California?
Technology and media companies account for the majority of content manager sponsorships in California. Firms like Salesforce, Adobe, Google, Meta, and Netflix have sponsored H-1B visas for content roles in recent years, according to Department of Labor LCA disclosure data. SaaS companies concentrated in the Bay Area and entertainment and streaming companies in Los Angeles are also consistent sponsors for content management positions.
Which visa types are most common for content manager roles in California?
The H-1B is the most common visa for content managers in California, provided the role is classified as a specialty occupation requiring a bachelor's degree in a directly related field such as communications, marketing, or journalism. Some content managers also enter on L-1B intracompany transfer visas when moving from a foreign office of a U.S. employer. O-1A visas are a less common path for candidates with demonstrated extraordinary achievement in their field.
Which cities in California have the most content manager sponsorship jobs?
San Francisco and the broader Bay Area generate the highest volume of content manager sponsorship opportunities in California, driven by the concentration of technology and SaaS companies. Los Angeles is the second major hub, particularly for content roles in entertainment, streaming, and digital media. San Diego and Sacramento have smaller but active markets, primarily in health technology, government-adjacent organizations, and regional media companies.
How to find content manager visa sponsorship jobs in California?
Migrate Mate is the most direct way to find content manager roles in California where employers are open to visa sponsorship. The platform filters jobs specifically by sponsorship willingness, saving time that would otherwise go toward researching individual company policies. For content manager candidates, filtering by industry, such as technology, media, or SaaS, within California is an effective starting point on Migrate Mate.
Are there any California-specific considerations for content managers seeking visa sponsorship?
California's prevailing wage requirements under Department of Labor regulations mean employers must pay H-1B workers the higher of the actual or prevailing wage for the role in the specific metropolitan area. Because San Francisco and Los Angeles are high-cost labor markets, prevailing wages for content manager positions are set at levels that reflect local market rates. California's strong university system, including UC campuses and USC, also produces a pipeline of OPT-eligible international graduates who pursue content management roles before transitioning to H-1B sponsorship.
What is the prevailing wage for sponsored content manager jobs in California?
U.S. employers sponsoring a visa must pay at least the prevailing wage, which is what workers in the same role, area, and experience level typically earn. The Department of Labor sets this rate to make sure companies aren't hiring foreign workers simply because they'd accept lower pay than a U.S. worker. It varies by job title, location, and experience. You can look up current prevailing wage rates for any occupation and location using the OFLC Wage Search page.