Full-Time

Channel Sales Account Manager

Posted on 10/31/2025

Adobe

Adobe

10,001+ employees

Creates subscription-based creative, marketing, documents software

No salary listed

London, UK

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Category
Sales & Account Management (1)
Required Skills
Sales
Requirements
  • You’ll need to be an expert Senior Channel Account Manager, having worked with a multi-national technology business with a demonstrable record of delivering against sales targets whilst crafting unforgettable customer experiences
  • You will be comfortable working at pace and adapting to changing business needs and priorities
  • Systems capable attitude; an agile learner and thinker able to navigate multiple platforms in a fast-paced and changeable environment
  • A growth mindset is imperative. We want people who see possibilities and opportunities where others see limitations. Innovation comes from everyone.
  • An ambitious storyteller, able to translate business jargon into easy to digest value propositions designed to solve real business challenges. As such you will be an accomplished presenter, able to deliver to c-suite members and large audiences with ease
  • You will be a problem-solver, able to step back and think about the bigger picture to resolve broader business challenges
  • You will work with autonomy, safe in the knowledge that you have the support and guidance from your management chain
Responsibilities
  • As a Senior Channel Account Manager you will have overall responsibility for driving new business sales revenue and retention rates across a set of designated Partner Accounts in EMEA
  • You will be responsible for overall performance for your allocated partners, building and maintaining strong business relationships and setting clear expectations with executives across the partner businesses
  • You’ll grow your partner revenue through new business, upsells and new sales motions that enable our customers to unlock further value in the products they use
  • Build and lead individual/family Quarterly Business Plans, with designated partners, to ensure they have strategies and tactics for profitable sales growth.
  • Review, analyse and understand current and past trends in key partner performance, including all areas of sales, to highlight trends and analyse causes of unexpected variance for course correction.
  • Frequently evaluate partners against the local partner eco-system, to ensure partner performance is on or above encouraged levels, and the Adobe partner landscape is accurately balanced.
  • Communicate proactively with partners and share information in conjunction with sales operations, marketing and other key internal stakeholders.

Adobe provides a broad set of digital experience tools, covering creative software, document management, and marketing solutions. Its core offerings—Adobe Creative Cloud for design, Adobe Document Cloud for PDFs and workflows, and Adobe Experience Cloud for marketing and customer experiences—are available through a subscription model that includes individual, business, and enterprise plans. How it works: users access a suite of applications and services via cloud-based software and licensing, enabling them to create, deliver, and optimize digital content across platforms. Adobe differentiates itself by offering an integrated, end-to-end ecosystem that spans creative work, document workflows, and marketing data, along with enterprise-grade features and services. It also explores expanding capabilities in 3D design and augmented reality, aiming to support both individuals and organizations in building and managing digital experiences at scale.

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

IPO

Headquarters

San Jose, California

Founded

1994

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What believers are saying

  • Brands like Coca-Cola and Home Depot adopt Adobe Real-Time CDP innovations.
  • Adobe GenStudio reimagines enterprise content supply chains in 2024.
  • Subscription model drives $19.41 billion revenue in fiscal 2023.

What critics are saying

  • Hightouch's sub-second ETL erodes Adobe's 60-minute data delays in 6-12 months.
  • OpenAI's GPT-4o and Sora drive 40% creative user churn in 6-12 months.
  • Standalone Figma captures 30% enterprise design share in 3-6 months.

What makes Adobe unique

  • Adobe Real-Time CDP enables millisecond-level edge segmentation for personalization.
  • Real-Time CDP Connections streamline server-side data forwarding to Facebook and Google.
  • B2P Real-Time CDP unifies B2C and B2B data with full governance.

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Company News

Yahoo Finance
Apr 15th, 2026
Adobe's Creative and Marketing revenues surge 12% to $4.39B driven by AI adoption

Adobe's Creative and Marketing Professionals segment grew 12% year-over-year to $4.39 billion in first-quarter fiscal 2026, driven by AI adoption and subscription strength. Creative Cloud freemium monthly active users surpassed 80 million, up over 50% annually, whilst generative credit consumption through Firefly surged 45% quarter-over-quarter. The company's enterprise digital experience business showed strong momentum, with GenStudio and Adobe Experience Platform each growing over 30% in annual recurring revenue. Adobe's remaining performance obligations reached $22.22 billion. However, Adobe faces significant competition from Microsoft and Alphabet in AI. Microsoft reported $625 billion in remaining performance obligations and 15 million Microsoft 365 Copilot paid seats, whilst Alphabet's AI Overview feature now reaches 2 billion monthly users.

Tech in Asia
Apr 14th, 2026
Oracle, Adobe rally as AI peace hopes lift battered software sector down 23% YTD

Software stocks rallied on hopes for a US-China trade deal, with Oracle and Adobe leading gains. However, the sector remains under pressure this year amid fears that AI tools from OpenAI and Anthropic could enable customers to build software faster and potentially displace vendors. The iShares Expanded Tech-Software Sector ETF is down over 23% year-to-date, with average sales multiples falling from 9x to 6x. A record $25 billion in software-sector leveraged loans now trade at distressed levels, raising concerns about private credit markets where the sector is a major borrower. Some firms are monetising AI successfully — ServiceNow's Now Assist product reached $600 million in annual contract value in Q4 2025. Yet deteriorating valuations could trigger a credit crisis through "shadow defaults" and forced fund withdrawals, with potential spillover to banks increasingly exposed to private credit.

Yahoo Finance
Apr 13th, 2026
BTIG initiates Adobe and Figma with Neutral ratings on AI growth concerns

BTIG has initiated coverage of Adobe and Figma with Neutral ratings, citing strong market positions but uncertainty around AI-driven growth sustainability. Adobe, which generated approximately $24 billion in revenue in FY25, faces concerns about generative AI's impact on Creative Cloud, which accounts for roughly 60% of revenue. Despite resilient growth and strong margins, Adobe shares have fallen about 55% over five years as questions emerge around pricing power and competition. Figma has achieved over $1 billion in FY25 run-rate revenue with 41% growth, pioneering UI/UX design. BTIG noted strong early adoption of its AI-powered "Make" features but said monetisation potential remains unclear in the near term. Both companies demonstrate solid fundamentals, but AI's long-term impact on revenues and margins remains ambiguous.

TechCrunch
Apr 7th, 2026
Adobe launches free AI study tool Acrobat Spaces for students

Adobe has launched Acrobat Spaces, a free AI-powered study tool designed for students. The platform allows users to upload PDFs, documents, PowerPoint files, URLs, handwritten notes and transcripts to generate flashcards, mind maps, quizzes, podcasts and editable presentations. Available on a separate URL without requiring login, Acrobat Spaces competes with tools like Google's NotebookLM, Goodnotes and Turbo AI. Students can also access an AI assistant to ask questions, with responses grounded in uploaded documents to reduce errors. Adobe developed the product by testing it with 500 students from universities including Harvard, Berkeley and Brown. Charlie Miller, VP of Education at Adobe, said the company aims to create a one-stop shop for reading and material creation, eliminating the need to move documents between different platforms.

Fortune
Apr 1st, 2026
Adobe tests whether creative tools giant can survive AI era with $6.4B revenue amid investor fears

Adobe is navigating the challenge of integrating AI without alienating the creative professionals who built its business. Anil Chakravarthy, who leads Adobe's customer experience division, describes the company as caught between AI's rapid pace and customers' need for reliability. Despite reporting record first-quarter revenue of $6.40 billion, Adobe's shares have declined as investors question whether AI agents could erode demand for traditional software. The company must balance innovation with maintaining enterprise customers' trust in mission-critical systems. The central tension centres on Adobe's generative AI system, Firefly. Whilst the company positions AI as enhancing creativity, many core users worry about training data sources and whether such tools devalue creative work. Chakravarthy argues Adobe's value lies not in content generation but in helping customers maintain brand consistency, governance and creative distinctiveness at scale.

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