Our Company

Changing 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  

Based in either the Bay Area, CA or Seattle WA, in this role, you will craft a strategy to drive Adobe’s award-winning Premiere Pro core product transforming the industry while delivering exceptional customer experiences making Creative Cloud for video a key part of all creative workflows.

You will lead all core product aspects of Adobe Premiere Pro. You will champion a culture of innovation, encouraging the exploration of new technologies and approaches, revolutionizing the world of video editing and setting the gold standard for future products from Adobe and the industry!

The successful candidate will be responsible for all facets of strategy, roadmap, and integrations within the Creative Cloud for video / audio products and services. You will collaborate with engineering to innovate in all core Adobe Premiere Pro areas.

This is a leadership role that requires defining and leading the product roadmap for our flagship video product across all of Adobe’s Creative Cloud platform. Success will be met by driving alignment with different product teams across the Digital Video and Audio org (DVA).

You will bring a proven ability to deliver compelling user experiences, work effectively in a cross-organization, geographically distributed environment, and exercise leadership to make a profound impact through influence.

What you’ll do

• Engage with Premiere Pro customers and understand their needs.
• Spot risks, find opportunities, identify competitive landscapes, and emerging trends, and understand implications, breaking insights down into pragmatic actions. 
• Crafting the strategy and roadmap, defining the goals in partnership with cross-functional category leadership to include executives, design, product marketing, program management, and engineering.
• Balance between short-term investments and future bets to deliver world class experiences. Foster an environment where employees are inspired to contribute to realizing the vision.
• Craft and communicate product strategy across organizations – gain consensus, encourage collaboration, and influence senior executives to acquire necessary resources -, regularly engaging with partner teams to evangelize features.
• Lead a team of product managers who have deep experience in the industry, coaching them to achieve excellence in quality of PM artifacts (roadmaps, backlogs, PRDs) and data-driven decision making.
• Use your product intuition to impact customer needs.  Lead the team to validate these assumptions with a design thinking approach.
• Drive a robust software development process that is agile, predictable, and results driven. Bring a combination of critical thinking and pragmatic delivery.
• Interactions involve visible activities such as speaking with customers or partners, influencing others, and representing the organization.
• Manage and allocate budgets effectively, ensuring optimal resource utilization.
• Champion diversity and inclusion initiatives, ensuring a workplace that celebrates and respects differences.
• Foster a sense of belonging and purpose, encouraging a strong connection to the vision and mission. Encourage a culture of continuous feedback, both formal and informal, to support individual and team development.
• Be a leader with vision and evangelist in creating exceptional customer experiences.
• Be on the lookout for strategic partnerships and M&A opportunities to bring more capabilities to Adobe. Should an opportunity present itself, the candidate should be able to build the case, bring it to the executive team and make the right relationship happen.

 What you’ll need to succeed

• Proven product management leadership experience, including leading highly versatile and diverse teams of product managers.
• Domain expertise in Adobe Premiere Pro and an understanding of creative professionals and their expectations from video tools.
• Deep passion for the content creation space and for innovation.
• Strong EQ, influencing skills, and leadership ability, ideally including experience driving consensus in matrixed organizations, with the ability to influence at all organizational levels.
• Demonstrated experience working in a matrixed environment at scale partnering across all functions, business units and geographies
• The inherently collaborative and leading personality that enables you to win the hearts and minds of your peers to implement a complex product roadmap.
• Strong problem-solving skills — thinking strategically and creatively to identify and address challenges and opportunities
• Ability to work at a fast pace and challenge the status quo in a large company
• Demonstrated success in driving positive cultural change.
• Demonstrated success in fostering an environment where employees feel connected and motivated to collaborate.

Get to know the team

Adobe’s Digital Media Business Unit focuses on advancing innovative content and driving digital transformation of industries. It provides tools and services that enable individuals, small businesses, and enterprises to create, publish, promote, manage and monetize their content anywhere through the Adobe Creative Cloud and Document Cloud.

Adobe’s creative and document solutions are used by designers, photographers, filmmakers, content publishers, storytellers, UX designers, knowledge workers, consumers and more. Through our connected apps and services, customers have all the tools and assets they need to create and manage content across desktop and mobile devices.

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 $163,200 -- $324,300 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.

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.

Adobe will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with state and local laws and “fair chance” ordinances.

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