Sr 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!

 

This Program Management position will be working as part of Digital Media Strategy & Operations business unit.  We are looking for a program manager to help lead programs or projects involving department and cross-functional teams passionate about the delivery of new product offerings. 

In this highly visible role, the program manager will help drive alignment across many cross functional teams in order to meet the key business objectives. The program manager will provide strategic program management by working with a broad set of partner organizations (Product marketing, Campaign Marketing, Engagement Marketing, Product Management, Product Development, Customer Experience, Business Strategy, Pricing, Branding, Product Program & Release Management, Segment Marketing, Go to Market). 

The candidate will also be responsible in designing and refining a set of standardized and repeatable portfolio management processes to tackle complex and cross-company initiatives and drive execution.  

What You'll Do

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

• Performs project planning to establish an overall project plan, including key milestones, and drives progress to achieve project plan within time and budget constraints. Understand and coordinate sequencing of projects to accomplish progress.

• Understands and assesses critical paths and dependencies for delivering projects and facilitates discussions between project teams, product management and engineering.

• Performs risk management duties by identifying and analyzing risks, developing risk management controls and contingency plans to help increase probability of positive events for the project.

• Aggregate organizes, and synthesizes program and project information in order to communicate with extended team and management

• Resolve misalignments across requirements, priorities, and schedule.

• Evaluates existing processes and procedures. Makes recommendations and drives process improvement and adoption of best practices (processes, tools, etc) to improve team efficiency and effectiveness.

• Drive release management activities to ensure successful deployment of product updates.

Requirements

• BA/BS Degree preferred OR 6+ years of experience in Program and Project management OR equivalent practical experience
• Ability to handle complex, highly cross-functional projects with highly matrixed environment
• Ability to work with both non-tech and technical teams – can help translate business requirements into technical requirements
• Ability to be flexible, adaptable, and think quick on your feet given the fast change in business needs
• strong interpersonal skills and how to build good relationships with Product marketing, campaign teams, legal, Business Model Strategy, brand, product managers; engineers and technologists with a variety of personalities and styles.
• Great business sense – ability to understand the business Go-to-Market strategy, and help align the rest of the project team members towards the same objectives
• Tools knowledge include: SharePoint, Jira, Smartsheet, MSFT office
• Knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (waterfall & Agile)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, especially with executives as our projects are highly visible/high profile projects that may involve meetings w/ the CEO
• Problem solver – proactive vs. reactive
• Strong influencing and interpersonal skills, and ability to develop positive relationships
• Quick learner and proactive in solving problems

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 03/25/2025 12:01 AM Pacific Time, in compliance with Colorado pay transparency regulations. If this role does not have Colorado listed as a hiring location, n