Principal Strategic Program Manager

Adobe enables organizations to generate on-brand, commercially safe creative content at scale. As a Principal Strategic Program Manager, you will define and orchestrate AI programs spanning model development, infrastructure, safety, evaluation frameworks, product integration, and enterprise readiness. 

You will partner directly with senior leaders across ML Engineering, Applied Research, Product, Security, Legal, and Go-to-Market to translate ambitious AI strategy into executable roadmaps with clear and measurable outcomes, and disciplined delivery. 

What You’ll Own 

End-to-End AI Program Leadership 

• Partner with Product to drive the strategy, roadmap, and execution for large-scale GenAI initiatives across research, platform, and product surfaces

• Establish program structures, governance models, and success metrics that scale with platform growth 

• Coordinate interdependent workstreams spanning research, model training, evaluation, inference infrastructure, and product integration 

• Drive initiatives across model safety, brand controls, governance, data compliance, and enterprise feature capabilities 

• Align ML engineering, product, design, infrastructure, and business partners on shared goals and execution sequencing 

• Manage risks, dependencies, and tradeoffs across highly technical teams 

• Build and maintain program scorecards, dashboards, and executive reporting  

• Run structured program reviews, scrums, reviews, and operational cadences 

• Identify adoption blockers, technical debt risks, or scaling constraints early 

What You Bring 

• Experience with strategic, operational, and technical program management experience delivering complex, cross-functional initiatives 

• Deep understanding of AI/ML systems, including large language models, model training pipelines, inference systems, evaluation frameworks, and production ML infrastructure 

• Experience leading large-scale GenAI or AI platform programs in high-growth or startup-like environments 

• Proven ability to drive alignment among senior technical and product leaders without direct authority 

• Executive-level communication skills with the ability to distill complexity into clear decisions 

• Experience operating in enterprise-grade environments with security, compliance, and reliability requirements 

You’ll Excel If You 

• Thrive in fast-moving environments where priorities evolve quickly

• Can move fluidly between strategic architecture discussions and operational execution 

• Are comfortable challenging assumptions and driving clarity in highly technical debates 

• Have a bias toward action, ownership, and measurable impact 

• Care deeply about building responsible, scalable AI systems 

About Adobe

Adobe empowers everyone to create through innovative platforms and tools that unleash creativity, productivity and personalized customer experiences. Adobe’s industry-leading offerings including Adobe Acrobat Studio, Adobe Express, Adobe Firefly, Creative Cloud, Adobe Experience Platform, Adobe Experience Manager, and GenStudio enable people and businesses to turn ideas into impact, powered by AI and driven by huma