Sr. Engineering Program Manager

The Challenge

The Sr. Engineering Program Manager is a leader in implementing technical, platform initiatives that span across front-end and back-end solutions. These end-to-end initiatives have tremendous impact on our web visitor experience as well as systems and processes inside Adobe.

The ideal candidate possesses a strong technical program management background, has demonstrated experience leading projects, and has a well-rounded background in current digital marketing technologies and data management.

The Opportunity

• Manage the development and implementation process for Adobe.com products and services, focusing on cross-platform tools and services
• Coordinate departmental or cross-functional teams, focused on delivering new or upgrading existing platform capabilities
• Responsible for projects from initiation through delivery including planning, schedule management, risk mitigation, and coordinating adoption rollouts
• Lead cross-functional activities and teams, ensuring completion of high-quality projects on time and within budget

What you’ll do

• Proactively drive program execution and associated scope, timeline, and resources with minimal guidance
• Analyze scope needed to achieve program goals, assess resource requirements; lead change control
• Develop detailed, complex, cross-team project or program plans that take into account all requirements, constraints, resources, and results associated with defined objectives
• Aggregate, organize, and synthesize program and project information in order to communicate with extended team and management
• Clearly communicate goals, roles, responsibilities, and desired program outcomes
• Coordinate and run operational, project, and executive check-in meetings
• Work with Product Managers and Engineering Managers to build clear roadmaps/plans for products/initiatives and maintain those roadmaps/plans, drive to reduce the critical path
• Continually evaluate existing processes and procedures and drive improvements
• Perform risk management: identify, analyze, respond, and control risks, resolve project-specific issues and partner concerns in a timely manner
• Deliver clear status communication to project teams, partners, and leadership teams
• Assist Engineering Managers and Web Managers with resource assessment and release planning
• Drive tactical decisions for projects that are under your direct responsibility

What you need to succeed

• 6-9 years of program/project management experience and technical leadership, preferably with large enterprise web projects
• Hands on experience with Agile & project management methodologies with confirmed leadership capabilities
• Solid understanding of Web technologies, including web content management systems (preferably Adobe Experience Manager)
• Knowledge and experience with Adobe Workfront, JIRA, SharePoint, Wiki, and AI tools
• Excellent business partner management and presentation skills

Desired Traits

• Driver – Take charge. Get things done. Proven track record in operating effectively and autonomously
• Organized – A planner who brings order and resolve to a fast-paced environment with matrixed organizations
• Articulate – Ability to work well with both technical and non-technical individuals up and down the org, capable of absorbing large amounts of information and the ability to distill it down to the essentials
• Quality – Attention to detail and a consistent record of successfully delivering complex global projects
• Flexible – Ability to juggle several projects and shift priorities as needed
• Creative – Exhibiting an innovative, forward-thinking approach to problem-solving
• Inquisitive – High degree of curiosity. Thinks critically and asks pertinent questions to learn the business, technology, products, and processes.
• Adaptivity – Ability to navigate and deliver successfully amid ambiguity
• High EQ – Ability to stay calm and collected, focus on solving problems. Strong communication, risk management and resolution skills. Ability to respectfully facilitate the successful resolution of issues

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

At Adobe, we believe in creating a company culture where all employees are empowered to make an impact. Learn more about Adobe life, including our values and culture, focus on people, purpose and community, Adobe for All, comprehensive benefits programs, the stories we tell, the customers we serve, and how you can help us advance our mission of empowering everyone to create.

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Our interviews are designed to reflect your own skills and thinking. The use of AI or recording tools during live interviews is not permitted unless explicitly invited by the interviewer or approved in advance as part of a reasonable accommodation. If these tools are used inappropriately or in a way that misrepresents your work, your application may not move forward in the process.

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:

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 $124,300 -- $234,600 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.

 

In California, the pay range for this position is $162,000 - $234,600

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:

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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:

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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.