Senior Director, Product Management

Adobe•San Jose, CA

27d

About The Position

Adobe is redefining creativity, document intelligence, and digital experience through AI. We're looking for an AI-native Senior Director of Product Management to lead the Developer Platform and AI Platform organization - the foundational layer that powers almost every capability Adobe ships. This role sits at the intersection of platform engineering, applied AI, and developer experience, and is responsible for the strategy, roadmap, and execution of the systems that make Adobe an AI-first company. You won't just manage a product portfolio. You'll architect the internal and external platforms used by over ten thousand engineers, hundreds of product teams, and millions of third-party developers. You'll own the developer experience end-to-end - from AI coding tools to, API design and SDK strategy, to workload hosting and gateways, to the plugin and extension ecosystem that lets the world build on top of Adobe’s technology. This is a role for someone who has shipped AI-powered platforms at scale, thinks in systems rather than features, and believes that the right platform is one developers never want to leave.

Requirements

Platform thinking at enterprise scale. You've built or led platforms consumed by large internal engineering organizations and/or external developer ecosystems.
You understand API design principles, extensibility patterns, multi-tenancy, rate limiting, versioning strategy, and what it takes to earn and keep developer trust.
Experience with developer relations and ecosystem growth is strongly valued.
12+ years of product management experience, with at least 3 years leading an AI/ML platform and/or developer platform offering.
You understand the full lifecycle of software and agentic development – from ideation to requirements, spec, code, test, release and iteration.
Deep technical fluency. You can go deep on containerized compute, retrieval-augmented generation, LLM fine-tuning strategies, inference optimization, and agentic AI patterns.
You're comfortable reviewing system design documents, debating latency-vs-accuracy tradeoffs with principal engineers, and making informed decisions about model selection, orchestration frameworks, and infrastructure costs.
You don't need to write production code, but you should be able to read it and reason about it.
Strategic clarity under ambiguity. The AI landscape shifts weekly.
You can synthesize signal from noise, make high-conviction bets with incomplete information, and adjust course without losing organizational momentum.
You've operated in fast-moving domains where the competitive window is measured in months, not years.
Organizational leadership at scale. You've built and led PM teams of 10+ across multiple product areas.
You know how to hire senior PMs who are better than you in their domain, how to create clarity of ownership across overlapping surfaces, and how to drive alignment with engineering, design, research, legal, and executive leadership.
You understand the critical imperative to adapt to the drastic changes we’re seeing in the technology industry and are excited by the challenge of helping us to rapidly reinvent our ways of working to ensure we can meet the customer needs of tomorrow.

Nice To Haves

You've led the developer platform or AI platform Product Management function at a company with 5,000+ engineers or built a developer ecosystem serving 100K+ third-party developers.
You've driven the adoption of AI-augmented software development tooling within a large engineering organization.
You're a boundaryless leader, who will collaborate across Adobe and with our customers to achieve big outcomes regardless of where that journey takes you.
You are obsessed with customer experience and achieving real outcomes and impact.
You are comfortable across a wide range of technical systems and topics – able to converse on everything from agentic coding, to CI/CD best practices, to observability, evaluations and orchestration in agentic architectures.
You are excited to re-invent the entire software development lifecycle to become AI-first and take advantage of new ways of working and collapsing role boundaries.
You hold a technical degree (CS, Math, Engineering, or related field) or related experience.
Advanced degree is a plus but not required - we value what you've built over where you studied.

Responsibilities

Own the developer platform product portfolio – from the multi-cloud Kubernetes platform to API gateways, SDKs, developer tools, source code and artifact repositories, and the customer-facing application builder experience and the marketplace of extensions and plugins.
Set the north-star for Adobe's external developer experience and drive adoption metrics.
Ensure that third-party developers can build rich, performant integrations with Adobe products using modern toolchains and AI-augmented workflows.
Define the vision for infrastructure that turns Adobe from a product suite into a programmable platform.
Own the overall strategic vision for Adobe’s Developer Platform.
Build and maintain a culture of relentless focus on execution.
Remove process bottlenecks, streamline communications, automate the SDLC intelligently with AI, ensuring that the right moments are created to engage the humans in the loop and ensure that judgement and taste are being applied at the critical process junctures.
Lead the product vision for internal AI-powered developer tools - code generation assistants, automated testing and review, intelligent CI/CD, knowledge retrieval systems, and agentic workflow tooling.
Partner with Engineering, IT, and Security to raise the productivity floor for every engineer at Adobe while maintaining the security and compliance posture the enterprise demands.
Maintain regular cadence of communication with client leaders and engineering teams to keep them informed about our plans, priorities and progress, and to hear their feedback.
Act as the Chief Marketing Officer for the DP team, with support and help from the entire Engineering and Program Leadership team.
Serve as a voice of the platform across the organization and the broader external technology community - highlighting capabilities and use-cases to client teams and actively selling our wares to encourage adoption.
Build, mentor, and lead a world-class product management organization of 15–25 PMs across multiple sub-teams.
Set the hiring bar, develop career frameworks, and cultivate a culture where rigorous technical thinking coexists with deep customer empathy.
Act as a leader of the broader organization, creating an environment that builds trust and strong working relationships between your Product Managers and their Engineering, Design and Program Management partners.