Director of Business Operations - Digital Media

Adobe•San Jose, CA

15d

About The Position

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! The Opportunity As part of an elite team supporting the President of our Digital Media business, the Director of Objectives & Key Results will drive insights and strategy execution. This role works closely with executives and senior leaders across the company. They translate strategy into clear priorities and actionable results for Adobe and its customers. The biggest impact will come from an influential leader who possesses strong business and operating intuition, has outstanding project and program management skills, and is an inspirational agent of change within the organization. The ideal candidate will build relationships easily and show a strong desire to ask thoughtful questions that push the business forward. They will dig deeply into the numbers, develop understandings and responses based on data, compose simple and clear processes and communications, and pay close attention to detail to ensure accuracy.

Requirements

10+ years experience in strategy, operations, or business transformation roles within large scale technology, SaaS or digital media companies or top management consulting firm.
MBA strongly preferred
Proven experience owning and scaling enterprise objective and key results program for multi-billion dollar organization
Strong business intuition, judgment and curiosity to ask the right questions.
Strong EQ, positive energy
Ability to take complex concepts and distill them into simple processes and/or key messages to rally an org or bring along executives/leadership
Exceptional executive communication skills (written and verbal).
Meticulous attention to detail to produce thoughtful, high quality executive deliverables
Proven ability to influence, connect the strategic and operational dots, and be org savvy to drive cross-functional alignment in a matrixed global environment
Strong analytical capability to interpret data and use data to influence business decisions
Ability to lead, create structure, and nimbly drive teams toward execution in high velocity, highly ambiguous environments

Responsibilities

Act as the expert on Digital Media objective and key results and lead all aspects of from beginning to end.
Assist executives in guiding a dynamic business environment, focusing on the most important elements, and making decisions informed by data.
Ensure alignment and transparency up and down the org.
Partner across executives and leaders in the business to develop a robust set of well- defined key results to drive strategic clarity, prioritization and trade-offs; refresh throughout the year as needed
Meticulously work with business leaders to deeply understand every calculation, probe thoughtfully, and understand what the data is telling us
Formally report out on key results at our 2x per quarter executive business reviews, to help steer the right narratives, conversations and actions
Proactively inspect the business on a rolling basis, working closely with leaders to generate insights and actions, to ensure teams deliver outcomes that move the business
Facilitate cross-functional alignment for shared goals, ensuring joint collaboration
Drive the operating model, process, tool and dashboard for objectives and key results, ensuring definition documentation, governance structure, accountability, robust tracking and reporting; building execution rigor across the business and employing change management strategies
Apply thought leadership and industry standards to continually architect and improve upon our framework and playbook, and ensure we have the best set of leading indicators to measure progress against our strategic priorities