Program Manager

Our CompanyChanging 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 OpportunityAs a Program Manager on Adobe's Workfront Program Management team you will partner with senior leaders across Adobe to build strategic roadmaps, transform it into execution plans and deliver against business objectives. Program Managers partner with leaders on planning, managing, tracking, reporting, presenting, and execution of key initiatives across the organization. This position will be required to lead and demonstrate standard Program Management methodologies across multi-functional teams, ensuring efficiency, scalability, and consistency. Together we will transform and scale our delivery practice!What you’ll do:Collaborate with Product Management, Architecture, Engineering, and business partners to complete Adobe’s strategic priorities.Lead all aspects, including project execution tracking, resource planning and management, risks/issues remediation, status reporting, budget management.Lead with a technical vision, being able to articulate the business value and the technical end-to-end capabilities.Handle multiple concurrent projects and programs, varying in size/scope/complexity, spanning across several different teams and originations.Participate with management teams in building materials and models used for quarterly and annual recasting of initiatives and priorities.Creating material(s) that can be consumed at different levels of the organization – from executive-level presentations to finite-level materials to be consumed by project/program teams.Proactively identify risks in all assigned areas; work with teams and management to mitigate these risks before they become issues.Communicating to partners throughout the organization, including C-level executives.Bring clarity to sophisticated technical challenges, and effectively articulate and navigate through options that deliver the best customer experience.Be focused on prioritization; ensuring team members have clear line of sight on the “must dos”.What you need to succeed:Very organized with outstanding attention to detail; understands what, why, when, how and who to drive better solutions.Self-starter with 5+ years of dynamic project/program management experience on large scale initiatives; background in business process management and PMO-best practices is a strong plus.Working industry knowledge of B2B (SMB + Enterprise) software licensing, deployment, management, and administration (from both the provider and customer POV).Experience in an always-on, services-based infrastructure/architecture, ensuring seamless customer experiences; scaled to address future demands.Working among challenging priorities and contending schedules to get your project across the finish line in a way that brings value to collaborators inside and outside Adobe.Must know your audience; be ready speaking publicly to everyone from C-level to the Individual Contributor assigned to the project/program; ability to influence and have data-driven conversations.Solid knowledge of the Agile frameworks.Familiarity with industry terminology (Marketing, PLG)Experience with applications such as Workfront, Jira, or other workload (Backlog) management tools is required.Proficiency in English.Adobe is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and affirmative action employer. We do not discriminate based on gender, race or color, ethnicity or national origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other applicable characteristics protected by law. Learn more. Adobe aims to make Adobe.com accessible to any and all users. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation to navigate our website or complete the application process, email accommodations@adobe.com or call (408) 536-3015.Adobe values a free and open marketplace for all employees and has policies in place to ensure that we do not enter into illegal agreements with other companies to not recruit or hire each other’s employees.