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!

Principal 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 craft 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 building 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

Enterprise Data & Analytics within Adobe enables distributed analytics, insights and data exploration in a secured governed environment arming our functional and business partners with insights to their ecosystems.

The Strategy, Planning, Portfolio and Program Management Team provides Program Management leadership and portfolio delivery for key business transformation projects within our global Enterprise Data & Analytics (EDA) organization.

If you are curious, creative and possess a growth mindset with an appetite to lead and thrive in a matrixed multi-functional environment, possess a high level of accountability and ownership to drive towards outcomes, then this job is for you.

In the role of a principal program manager you will design, develop and lead program management activities for a specific project or program from definition and planning to execution and launch. Serve as a key driver and glue across internal IDS teams as well as external x-functional partners.

What you'll Do

• Improve business value delivery through thoughtful planning, as well as predictable and consistent program execution
• Own project roadmap, drive scope/timeline discussion, track, identify, & resolve program interdependencies, risks/issues, landmarks, and program artifacts across various project tracks to ensure successful project implementation and rollout.
• Prepare and maintain program dashboards, status reports on work within scrum team, Steering Committee/Executive briefings, SLC (Service Life Cycle) check point artifacts along with all program level communications
• Drive strategic and tactical decisions for your program
• Identify and solve broad complex issues
• Establish success metrics and regularly evaluate and adjust execution strategy to achieve the success measures
• Lead cross-team collaboration through influence
• Demonstrate strong analytical and quantitive skills and drive data-based decision making
• Craft well thought out proposals/recommendations that specify a clear course of action
• Create streamlined content tailored to the audience and present up, down, and across the management stack

What you need to succeed

• B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent
• 6-10 years of experience in program management with PMP & CSM certified
• Product management background is high desirable
• Knowledge of ERP system like S4 Hana in context of Data & Analytics
• Experience handling multi-discipline teams consisting of business and technical resources
• Experience using various project delivery methodologies (Agile/Scrum, Waterfall, and hybrid) and tailoring the approach for program success
• Ability to propel towards clarity from ambiguity
• Be a change agent! Identifying and implementing ways to improve processes and remove bottlenecks to systemically improve how we deliver value to our customers
• A strong bias towards data-driven decision making
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills to engage with technical and non-technical audiences
• Influencing and interpersonal skills to develop strong working relationships and build credibility/trust with team members and Senior Leadership
• Experience and knowledge of Data and Analytics space, tools/platfor