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Principal Engineering Program Manager

Join Our Photoshop Program Management Team

We invite you to join us at Adobe, where we turn strategy into reality. As a Principal Engineering Program Manager, you will lead exciting projects for our mobile drawing app. Together, we will make an impact to the creative tools used by creative professionals and enthusiasts worldwide!

What you will do:

Drive Cross-Team Collaboration: Leverage your technical knowledge to lead cross-functional projects. Proactively anticipate and mitigate issues, ensuring smooth project progress and preventing potential crises.

Be a Strategic Partner: Work closely with management to address complex challenges, ensuring projects align with Adobe's overarching strategic goals through effective planning and communication.

Achieve Desired Results: Successfully deliver projects within constraints of scope, quality, time, and budget, balancing trade-offs and getting alignment.

Roadmap and Risk Management: Lead the product roadmap, track dependencies and project schedules, oversee risk management and implement contingency plans, while maintaining clear communication with customers and team members.

Standardize Processes: Enhance and refine processes to improve operational efficiency and consistently deliver outstanding outcomes.

What you will need to succeed:

Bachelor's degree with 8+ years equivalent experience in leading large-scale projects, demonstrating strategic insight and operational expertise.

Exceptional Communication: Your strong communication skills enable you to engage with diverse audiences and adapt messages to different contexts.

User-Centric Focus: You prioritize user feedback and actionable insights, driving innovations that improve user satisfaction.

Inclusive Leadership: You excel in diverse settings and are adept at encouraging collaboration and ensuring participation among all team members.

Technical Depth: You have solved complex technical problems across various domains, applying an in-depth understanding and evaluation of factors, including technical requirements, to formulate creative solutions.

Continual Learning: Your natural curiosity motivates you to seek out new solutions and continually advance your skills.

Agility Proficiency: You have an understanding of Agile, Lean, and Scrum methodologies, and have applied these practices to achieve desired outcomes.

Tools Proficiency: You have experience with project management tools like Jira, and familiarity with Objective Key Results frameworks is a plus.

Relevant Background: Experience in mobile product development and a passion for imaging or photography will be useful.

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

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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:

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.