Senior Delivery Manager, Enterprise Productivity

Adobe; Ottawa; On-site; CAD 173,000 - 350,000; Full time

Job summary

Adobe is seeking a Senior Delivery Manager to partner with senior leadership, scale key initiatives, and optimize operations across a distributed team. The role emphasizes strategic planning, data-driven decisions, and change leadership to improve organizational performance.

You will help drive OKRs, lead multi-year planning, and manage Agile frameworks, fostering collaboration across centers of excellence and business partners.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of strategic operational experience partnering with senior leaders.
• Bachelor-level degree in a related field; MBA or management consulting is a plus.
• Proven ability to design, implement and lead organizational change initiatives.
• Strong relationship-building across all levels and data-driven decision making.
• Excellent communication and executive-level presentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Help drive the leadership team's strategy, OKRs, and key metrics.
• Oversee day-to-day operations and facilitate prioritization, notes, and presentations.
• Lead weekly leadership meetings and All-Hands, drive multi-year planning and performance reviews.
• Evolve global operations, establish standard methodologies, optimize processes.
• Own Agile framework and Scrum delivery for continuous improvement and customer satisfaction.
• Collaborate with Centers of Excellence to align resources with vision and strategy.

Skills

Strategic ops

Program management

Agile Delivery

Stakeholder mgmt

Data to insights

Leadership

Education

BA/BS degree

MBA a plus

Job description

Senior Delivery Manager, Digital Employee Experiences

The Opportunity

The Senior Delivery Manager will partner with the Senior Director, Digital Experiences and Insight and their leadership team to develop, run, and scale key initiatives, processes, and operations across a distributed team. The ideal candidate possesses strong business intuition, exceptional operational and program management skills, and motivational change leadership. You are always ready to “roll up” your sleeves and dig into details to assess business needs and identify gaps in strategy and operations. You can turn complex problems into prioritized, well-executed solutions that drive impact. You thrive in a dynamic, fast-faced environment, seek to learn, and grow as the organization evolves, and are always thinking of the needs of the team and business.

The Digital Experiences and Insight team optimizes digital experiences for people to do their best work by optimizing business workflows and connecting the enterprise with trusted data that drive strategic decisions. To delight customers Adobe must deliver highly available online services with self-service features – To enable this, the team must build and run innovative solutions to sophisticated business problems. Availability, Reliability, Performance and User Experience are all key differentiators in delivering services to customers from Adobe’s hybrid-cloud environment.

What you’ll do

• Help drive the strategy developed by the leadership team. This includes developing OKRs and supervising key metrics.
• Support day-to-day operations, including facilitating prioritization, preparing notes and presentations for external/internal meetings.
• Support the organization’s leadership team, including running weekly leadership team meetings and monthly All-Hands, orchestrating annual and multi-year/strategic-planning, and driving business performance review to evaluate progress towards goals.
• Evolve and lead operations for the global organization, including establishing standard methodologies, optimizing processes, and driving team synchronicity, engagement and efficiency
• Be responsible for the Agile Framework and foundational scrum processes for continuous improvement throughout the organization including intake ownership, data-driven processes, cost effectiveness, organizational change processes, and delivery expectations to ensure a high-level of customer service ensuring platform satisfaction
• Collaborate with Centers of Excellence on multi-functional initiatives, including alignment of resources to the stated vision and strategy, and ensuring clear and consistent roll-outs of programs and processes

What you need to succeed

• 10+ years of shown experience in strategic operational roles, partnering directly with senior leaders
• BA or BS degree in a related field; MBA, Management Consulting is a plus
• Outstanding ability to program manage complex operations, and proactively design, implement, and lead change initiatives
• Demonstrated ability to build relationships and partnerships at all levels of the organization, identify and align diverse perspectives, and advise and influence senior partners
• Ability to use critical thinking skills to breakdown sizable problems into meaningful pieces, and leverage data to derive insights
• Superb judgment and integrity, including excellent decision-making skills
• Meticulously detail-oriented, excellent communication, written, and verbal skills, and solid attention to detail
• Comfort with ambiguity, a can-do attitude, and the ability to learn, grow, and take on expanded duties as business needs evolve
• Experience in Program and Project Management, Agile Framework and SCRUM Delivery.

About Adobe

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.

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Expected Pay Range:

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several U.S. geographic markets, and we pay differently based on those defined markets. The U.S. pay range for this positionis $124,900 – $253,100 annually. Paywithin this range varies by work locationand may also depend on job-related knowledge, skills,and experience. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the job location during the hiring process.

In California, the pay range for this position is $174,800 - $253,100

At Adobe, for sales roles starting salaries are expressed as total target compensation (TTC = base + commission), and short-term incentives are in the form of sales commission plans. Non-sales roles starting salaries are expressed as base salary and short-term incentives are in the form of the Annual Incentive Plan (AIP).

In addition, certain roles may be eligible for long-term incentives in the form of a new hire equity award.

State-Specific Notices:

California:

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Colorado:

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Massachusetts:

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