How Many People Work at Adobe? Headcount and Employee Trends

Adobe employs more than 22,000 people worldwide across creative, digital document, and customer experience businesses. Recent staffing data shows the company expanded its team by roughly 7 percent through new hires while employee turnover remained closer to 5 percent, resulting in modest net headcount growth. This balanced approach highlights Adobe’s focus on sustainable scaling of its product portfolio and cloud services without dramatic workforce swings.

Engineering is Adobe’s largest group with about 8,000 employees—just over one-third of total staff—underscoring the company’s ongoing investment in core product development and cloud infrastructure. Sales & Support (approximately 4,200 employees) and Marketing & Product (about 4,100) together account for another 37 percent, reflecting the importance of customer acquisition, retention, and go-to-market motion. Business Management, Finance & Administration, and Information Technology collectively represent around 15 percent of headcount, providing operational and financial oversight. The remaining workforce is distributed across Operations, Human Resources, Consulting, and other specialized roles, each contributing between 2 and 4 percent to the overall total. Company-wide hiring outpaced attrition, indicating stable talent retention across most functions.

Adobe’s talent footprint is highly distributed. Roughly 57 percent of employees sit in "Other" locations, a category that combines remote workers and a long tail of regional offices. The largest named hubs are San Francisco (about 3,000 employees) and San Jose (around 1,600), followed by New York, Bengaluru, Seattle, and Noida, each ranging from 600 to 1,100 staff. Smaller concentrations are found in Delhi, Lehi, and London. This mix of West Coast headquarters, strategic U.S. cities, and growing India offices illustrates Adobe’s blend of mature tech centers and cost-efficient global talent pools.