Principal Engineering Program Manager

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

Join Adobe as a Principal Engineering Program Manager in San Jose, CA. You'll be part of the Adobe Journey Optimizer team that is building impactful solutions and driving product innovation at Adobe to help our customers deliver personalized experiences at scale. Lead complex programs to ensure continuous progress and smooth execution throughout the software lifecycle. Collaborate with contributors and leaders from different departments to develop innovative cloud solutions for Adobe Experience Cloud.

Successful candidates will drive large projects, bring together business and technical expertise from contributors and take action where needed to mitigate risks and maintain progress. Passion for delivering high-quality software in a complex environment is a must. This role provides opportunities to lead important programs and contribute to shaping our future.

What you'll Do

• Partner with senior leaders to build strategic roadmaps, transform them into execution plans, and deliver against business objectives.

• Lead and collaborate with global, cross-functional teams to create plans that communicate requirements, determine scope, highlight risks, and build schedules that ensures successful delivery.

• Lead cross-functional teams worldwide through project execution, ensuring timely delivery of product features with clear communication updates.

• Coordinate multiple concurrent programs, varying in size/scope/complexity, spanning across several different teams, roles and organizations.

• Tactically identify potential risks, build mitigation plans, and engage the right partners to remove obstacles to success.

• Build and release status reports including executive-level presentations that can be consumed at various levels of the organization.

• Maintain a deep, technical end-to-end understanding of the solution being built, its upstream and downstream dependencies and impacts, and critical changes needed to support the initiative.

• Coach and mentor junior team members across the program and engineering organization to grow our leadership bench.

What you need to succeed

• 10+ years of technical program management experience in a relevant field, leading cross-functional projects to deliver high quality products in a fast-paced environment.

• Proven track record of delivering large-scale Enterprise Software and/or Cloud Software initiatives across engineering organizations through all stages of the software development lifecycle.

• Be a motivated self-starter who can operate in ambiguous conditions and maintains flexibility to adapt to changing conditions and varying priorities.

• Have high attention to detail and strong analytical thinking; commonly uses metrics and data to come up with tactical recommendations and key process improvements.

• Have strong verbal and written communication skills; ability to engage with collaborators at all levels.

Preferred Qualifications

• Masters or equivalent experience in computer science or engineering with applied engineering background strongly preferred.

• Experience in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies preferred.

• PMP, CSM, Agile Training preferred.

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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California:

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Colorado:

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Massachusetts:

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