Principal Engineering Program Manager
About The Position
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 human ingenuity. Our 30,000+ employees worldwide are creating the future and raising the bar as we drive the next decade of growth. We’re on a mission to hire the very best and believe in creating a company culture where all employees are empowered to make an impact. At Adobe, we believe that great ideas can come from anywhere in the organization. The next big idea could be yours. Let’s Adobe together At Adobe, we believe in creating a company culture where all employees are empowered to make an impact. Learn more about Adobe life, including our values and culture, focus on people, purpose and community, Adobe for All, comprehensive benefits programs, the stories we tell, the customers we serve, and how you can help us advance our mission of empowering everyone to create.
Responsibilities
- Drive planning and execution of the product roadmap in partnership with Product Management, Design, Architecture, Engineering, and business enablement teams.
- Develop and manage all aspects of large, multi‑team programs: detailed plans, schedules, risks, mitigations, status reporting, executive updates, and roadmap alignment.
- Serve as the authoritative source of truth for program state, dependencies, risks, and opportunities across in‑flight and upcoming work.
- Navigate competing priorities and tight timelines to deliver high‑impact outcomes.
- Maintain a deep, end‑to‑end technical understanding of the solutions being built—including upstream and downstream dependencies—and drive the organizational changes needed to support them.
- Guide programs through the full lifecycle of AI feature development: hypothesis validation, fine‑tuning, evaluations, velocity improvements, requirements gathering, risk assessment, and resource planning.
- Understand and influence strategies for early feature market‑fit identification.
- Engage and influence stakeholders at all levels—from individual contributors to VPs—ensuring alignment, clarity, and momentum.
- Develop materials tailored for diverse audiences, from executive‑level presentations to detailed documentation for engineering teams.
- Facilitate cross-team collaboration, surfacing and resolving assumptions, gaps, and blockers across a complex matrixed environment.
- Define and drive the processes (both new and current) to coordinate, communicate, and resolve cross-team issues.
- Proactively identify risks and work with teams to mitigate them before they become issues.
- Continuously inspect what’s working and what’s not, adapting processes to improve velocity and outcomes.
- Establish and lead a coalition of cross‑functional leaders to ensure cohesive execution of the overall plan.
Benefits
- At Adobe, you will be immersed in an exceptional work environment that is recognized around the world.
- You will also be surrounded by colleagues who are committed to helping each other grow through our unique Check-In approach where ongoing feedback flows freely.
- If you’re looking to make an impact, Adobe's the place for you.
- Discover what our employees are saying about their career experiences on the Adobe Life blog and explore the meaningful benefits we offer.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
