Principal Product Manager, Graph

Adobe•San Jose, CA

12d

About The Position

We're looking for a Principal Product Manager to lead the vision, strategy, and execution of growing the Firefly Graph ecosystem. Graph is a highly technical product used to build, visualize, implement, and share complex workflows through graph-based systems. Firefly Graph powers both an advanced node-based editor and downstream, simplified experiences built on top of those graphs.

Requirements

8–12+ years of product management experience, with significant ownership of complex, technical, or platform products.
Strong systems thinking with the ability to reason about interconnected components, constraints, and emergent behavior.
Empathy for power users and creators who depend on accuracy, rapidity, debuggability, and adaptability.
Comfort working closely with highly technical engineering teams on performance-critical, architecture-heavy systems.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, especially for complex and abstract concepts.

Nice To Haves

Background in developer tools, creative tools, game engines, VFX pipelines, ML tooling, data platforms, or automation systems.
Experience with extensible platforms, plugin systems, SDKs, or scripting environments.
Exposure to workflows powered by artificial intelligence, generative systems, or model orchestration tools.

Responsibilities

Establish the long-term vision and strategy for the Graph platform, encompassing the plugins, APIs, extensibility, and interoperability across products and surfaces for both internal teams and customers.
Define what “great” looks like for graph-based authoring across beginner, advanced, and expert users, including how it flows across power-user tooling and simplified downstream experiences.
Lead discovery efforts to deeply understand user workflows, difficulties, and mental models in graph-based and agentic systems.
Collaborate with design to build interaction patterns for node creation, connections, layouts, debugging, inspection, and working at scale.
Collaborate closely with engineering to divide large, unclear problems into deliverable segments while maintaining architectural consistency.
Act as a bridge between user needs and technical realities, setting clear outcomes while avoiding prescriptive implementation decisions.