Our CompanyChanging the world through digital experiences is what Adobe’s all about. We give everyone—from emerging artists to global brands—everything they need to design and deliver exceptional digital experiences! We’re passionate about empowering people to create beautiful and powerful images, videos, and apps, and transform how companies interact with customers across every screen. We’re on a mission to hire the very best and are committed to creating exceptional employee experiences where everyone is respected and has access to equal opportunity. We realize that new ideas can come from everywhere in the organization, and we know the next big idea could be yours!
The opportunity
We are looking for a Senior Design Program Manager to join our team and provide immediate impact to the Growth design field within the Adobe.com design team. In this role, your primary responsibilities include operationalizing design processes, including owning management tools, building alignment, and prioritizing work to ensure timelines and business objectives are met. Experience communicating across audiences, creating clear plans out of ambiguity, and updating executive partners are central to success.
What you’ll do
Lead
You’ll cultivate cross-functional partnerships with product managers, engineering leads, and design leadership to ensure alignment and effective collaboration. As a key orchestrator, you advocate for design excellence, streamline priorities, and drive consensus across teams and functions.
Strategize
You excel in breaking down sophisticated initiatives into manageable phases and aligning partners on priorities within a dynamic, fast-paced environment. You translate high-level goals into actionable, well-structured plans that move initiatives forward despite organizational complexity.
Think at a systems level
You are adept at working with design systems and ensuring that program plans and processes support scalable UX patterns and components across applications, workflows, and use cases, reinforcing consistency and efficiency.
Communicate thoughtfully
With strong written, verbal, and presentation skills, you expertly convey the rationale behind program plans and design strategies to diverse partners. You proactively share insights and standard processes to elevate program execution and drive alignment across the Design organization.
What you need to succeed
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience or equivalent practical experience
- 8+ years of applicable experience in a design and technology environment
- Proven delivery of large-scale programs and projects
- Strong verbal, presentation, and written communication skills
- Strong conflict resolution and negotiation skills with the ability to lead in an environment of ambiguity with a diverse range of partners
- A passion to have an influential role with the product team as a driver for design process and product strategy, communicating design ideas persuasively and concisely to all functions of the organization, including executives.
- A love for fun while getting things done! We have a strong culture of collaboration that embraces sharing opinions but always underscored by understanding.
How to apply
To be considered for this role, please submit your resume and a cover letter.
About Adobe Design
Adobe Design creates tools that amplify the world’s ability to create and communicate. We’re a global team of designers, researchers, prototypers, content strategists, program managers, and more who work across Adobe’s three product lines: Creative Cloud, Document Cloud, and Experience Cloud.
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 $112,000 -- $214,100 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.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.
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