The Adobe Security organization is seeking a Principal Security Portfolio TPM to lead multiple technical programs and manage a healthy portfolio. This role involves partnering with security architecture leadership to build and monitor key initiatives, ensuring smooth operations and delivering business outcomes. The ideal candidate will have strong communication skills, a background in security program management, and expertise in cyber defense operations, incident management, and SIEM solutions, along with Agile practices and financial competence.

Must Have

• Lead multiple technical programs and manage a healthy portfolio.
• Partner with security architecture leadership to build and monitor key initiatives.
• Ensure smooth operations and deliver business outcomes for high-priority programs.
• Proactively identify, communicate, and remove program roadblocks.
• Provide accurate, timely, data-driven status reports and lead executive governance meetings.
• Coordinate program financials, including crafting detailed forecasts.
• Mentor engineering and operations teams on Agile standard processes and Jira usage.
• Exceptional communication and relationship-building skills.
• 10+ years as a program manager in the security domain with portfolio-level oversight.
• Strong knowledge in the architecture field and experience developing security strategic direction.
• History of managing intricate projects from inception to successful delivery.
• Knowledgeable about cyber defense operations, incident management, and SIEM solutions.
• Basic financial competence for program budget forecasting, tracking, and variance analysis.
• Demonstrated Agile practice experience and familiarity with Jira, O365 Suite, MS Teams, SharePoint, MS Project, Excel, and Miro.

Good to Have

• Familiarity with threat intelligence tools.

Perks & Benefits

• Exceptional work environment
• Opportunities for growth through Check-In approach and ongoing feedback
• Meaningful benefits
• Short-term incentives (sales commission plans, Annual Incentive Plan)
• Long-term incentives (new hire equity award)

The Opportunity

The Adobe Security organization seeks a proactive force multiplier with experience skillfully leading multiple technical programs, running a healthy portfolio, working directly with leadership, and delighting collaborators.

Our ideal candidate has superb communication and relationship-building skills and a solid track record of driving business outcomes through managing large programs. The candidate is experienced in working with the security architecture team to enable paved roads for product teams with built-in security capabilities. In addition, being familiar with application security, incident response, and related security tooling, especially the SIEM solution.

If you excel at navigating complexity with multiple internal customers, are a master planner who helps teams foresee challenges and risks and guides teams through them, and are equipped with a diverse technical program management toolbox, we can’t wait for you to join our Security PMO team!

What you'll do

• Partner directly with security architecture leadership to build a portfolio of key programs. Lead and monitor the health and execution of several key initiatives with insights into status, risks, dependencies, roadblocks, and budget across the organization’s program portfolio.
• Ensure healthy program portfolios in Adobe’s security architecture with a clearly defined multi-year roadmap and smooth operations within the architecture space.
• Bring together cross-functional teams to deliver business outcomes for high-priority programs through detailed planning, execution, partnership, and communication. It can be in any security domain, enabling long-term architectural vision.
• Reduce program risk by proactively identifying, communicating, and removing roadblocks.
• Build trust through visibility. Provide accurate and timely data-driven status reports for a broad audience and lead executive governance meetings.
• Efficiently coordinate program financials, including crafting detailed and timely financial forecasts.
• Mentor engineering and operations teams to meet the Agile standard processes and Jira usage guidelines

What you need to succeed

• Exceptional communication skills for effective engagement with engineers and executives in meetings, presentations, and writing. Excel at building strong and trusted partner relationships.
• 10+ years as a program manager in the security domain with portfolio-level oversight experience. Demonstrate strong knowledge in the architecture field and have worked closely with the architecture group to develop the strategic direction of security.
• Established history of effectively managing programs from inception, prioritizing, and strategizing to implementation, reporting, and successful delivery of intricate projects with many significant internal customers.
• Knowledgeable about cyber defense operations, incident management, and SIEM solutions. Familiarity with other supporting tools, such as threat intelligence tools, is nice to have
• Basic financial competence to support program budget forecasting, tracking, and variance analysis.
• Demonstrated Agile practice experience in software projects and familiarity with Jira (including query and dashboarding), O365 Suite, MS Teams, SharePoint, MS Project, Excel, and Miro or equivalent experience
• Preferred Certifications: CISSP, CISM, PMP, or equivalent credentials demonstrating expertise in cybersecurity, and program leadership.

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 $146,300 -- $277,400 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 $191,600 - $277,400 In Washington, the pay range for this position is $177,100 - $256,450

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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