Senior Product Manager

Adobe is seeking a Senior Product Manager to lead and scale its modern, unified extensibility platform (UXP) across flagship Creative Cloud apps like Photoshop and Premiere. This role involves collaborating with product, engineering, and developer relations teams to build multi-year, cross-product roadmaps based on ecosystem and business needs. The manager will drive strategy for third-party extensibility, prioritize the platform roadmap, and ensure clear communication with stakeholders. A deep understanding of the UXP technology stack, including JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, is essential for this technical role, focusing on empowering developers to create impactful plugins and experiences.

Must Have

• Own and drive strategy for scaling third-party extensibility.
• Build and prioritize the platform roadmap with various partners.
• Communicate roadmap updates to senior leadership.
• Partner with Developer Relations for documentation and sample code.
• Build deep understanding of UXP technology stack (JavaScript, HTML, CSS).
• Drive adoption of the platform by internal and external developers.
• Possess a strategic mentality and leadership skills.
• Be self-driven, motivated, and independent.
• Demonstrate excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Have a minimum of four years of product management experience.
• Show a passion for working with developers and new technologies.
• Experience working with tiered customer levels.

Good to Have

• Previous management experience.
• Experience building platforms.
• Developer Relations or Developer Support experience.
• Experience with Creative Cloud applications and plugin development.

Perks & Benefits

• Competitive annual compensation ($125,800 - $239,725).
• Eligibility for Annual Incentive Plan (AIP).
• Potential for new hire equity awards.
• Exceptional work environment.
• Culture of ongoing feedback through Check-In approach.
• Comprehensive benefits package.

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!

**About the Role**

We’re seeking a Senior Product Manager who possesses a blend of technical depth along with user and developer empathy to lead and scale our modern, unified extensibility platform (UXP) across our flagship Creative Cloud apps. Collaborate closely with product, engineering, developer relations, and community teams across Adobe (including Photoshop, Premiere, and others) to build and ship multi-year, cross-product roadmaps based on ecosystem and business needs while supporting the developer migration to the modern extensibility platform.

**What is UXP?**

UXP is Adobe’s modern extensibility framework based on familiar browser technologies. Using UXP, developers build high quality and impactful plugins unleashing powerful creative workflows and experiences in supported apps. UXP powers many features in Adobe’s product portfolio. (We drink our own champagne!)

**What You’ll Do**

• Own & drive strategy for scaling third-party extensibility expansion across our Creative Cloud desktop apps. You'll work in close collaboration with associated app’s product teams and the community to align platform dependencies and support migration efforts.
• Build and prioritize the platform roadmap with inputs from all partners and the ecosystem. This includes Product, Engineering, Design, Legal, Marketing, Business Development, and GTM teams. Maintain the backlog of detailed epics, user stories and tasks with well defined definitions-of-done and refine operational processes to enable scale, efficiency and clarity.
• Communicate updates on the product roadmap, key initiatives, and metrics to senior leadership and decision makers.
• Partner closely with Developer Relations engineers by prioritizing and releasing clear, comprehensive, and engaging documentation and sample code.
• Help shape the future of extensibility by building bridges for developers creating experiences across web and desktop.
• Represent the extensibility platform internally, bringing in the voice of our developers and users of extensions to drive alignment across teams and products.
• Build a deep understanding of the technology stack powering UXP and our products. This is a technical role. You should know JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, and be familiar with new technologies that our developer community & users may need (e.g., generative AI, etc.)
• Drive adoption of the platform by internal and external developers.

**What You’ll Need To Succeed**

• Strategic mentality with the ability to see the big picture and align community efforts with platform and business goals over both the short and long term.
• Leadership skills will be critical as you work across teams to deliver features. Previous management experience is ideal.
• Be self-driven & motivated and independent.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills for both technical and non-technical audiences.
• A minimum of four years of product management experience—engineers with product experience are welcome to apply!
• A passion for working with developers and learning about new technologies.
• Experience working with tiered customer levels (both first and third-party) is crucial to balance needs for the ecosystem and the business.
• Experience building platforms is desired.
• Developer Relations or Developer Support experience is desired.
• Experience with Creative Cloud applications and plugin development is a plus.

**Why Join Us**

Come play a pivotal role in crafting the future of extensibility for creatives worldwide. If you thrive at the intersection of technology, community, and product, and want to make a tangible impact on both developers and end users, we’d love to hear from you.

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 $125,800 -- $239,725 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.

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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