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We're looking for a Principal Product Manager to lead the vision, strategy, and execution of growing the Firefly Graph ecosystem. Graph is a highly technical product used to build, visualize, implement, and share complex workflows through graph-based systems. Firefly Graph powers both an advanced node-based editor and downstream, simplified experiences built on top of those graphs.

What You'll Do

• Establish the long-term vision and strategy for the Graph platform, encompassing the plugins, APIs, extensibility, and interoperability across products and surfaces for both internal teams and customers.
• Define what "great" looks like for graph-based authoring across beginner, advanced, and expert users, including how it flows across power-user tooling and simplified downstream experiences.
• Lead discovery efforts to deeply understand user workflows, difficulties, and mental models in graph-based and agentic systems.
• Collaborate with design to build interaction patterns for node creation, connections, layouts, debugging, inspection, and working at scale.
• Collaborate closely with engineering to divide large, unclear problems into deliverable segments while maintaining architectural consistency.
• Act as a bridge between user needs and technical realities, setting clear outcomes while avoiding prescriptive implementation decisions.

Your Background

• 8-12+ years of product management experience, with significant ownership of complex, technical, or platform products.
• Strong systems thinking with the ability to reason about interconnected components, constraints, and emergent behavior.
• Empathy for power users and creators who depend on accuracy, rapidity, debuggability, and adaptability.
• Comfort working closely with highly technical engineering teams on performance-critical, architecture-heavy systems.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, especially for complex and abstract concepts.

Bonus Points

• Background in developer tools, creative tools, game engines, VFX pipelines, ML tooling, data platforms, or automation systems.
• Experience with extensible platforms, plugin systems, SDKs, or scripting environments.
• Exposure to workflows powered by artificial intelligence, generative systems, or model orchestration tools.

Join us in building Firefly at Adobe, and innovating on the future of creative software.

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.

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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 positionis $148,100 -- $282,100 annually. Paywithin this range varies by work locationand 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 $194,800 - $282,100 In Washington, the pay range for this position is $178,600 - $258,700

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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