2027 MBA University Graduate - Business Operations & Strategy

Adobe; San Jose (CA); Vor Ort; USD 121.000 - 175.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Adobe is seeking a strategic thinker to help shape where the company invests in technology. You’ll connect internal needs, capabilities, spend, and market shifts to guide investment decisions and optimize the technology portfolio.

You’ll collaborate with Architecture, Finance, Procurement and partnerships, translating complex data into actionable executive recommendations that align technology with business strategy.

Qualifikationen

• Strong structured and analytical thinking connecting market, business, financial, and tech signals.
• Able to organize ambiguous problems and move from analysis to decisions.
• Data orientation and investigative instincts to validate conclusions with evidence.
• Curiosity about software, AI, and emerging tech trends and their business impact.
• Ability to work with technical and functional experts and translate nuances into business implications.
• Strong executive communication to distill complexity into concise insights.

Aufgaben

• Evaluate and evolve Adobe’s technology portfolio by assessing capabilities, spend, utilization, efficiency, and ROI.
• Partner with Enterprise Architecture to develop assessment frameworks combining technical and financial context.
• Assess how AI is redefining the landscape and how tools could augment or replace existing solutions.
• Understand the end-to-end software lifecycle and the operational and financial mechanisms shaping demand and spend.
• Connect insights across Procurement, Finance, Strategic Partnerships, Enterprise Architecture, and business/tech teams.
• Turn complex data and perspectives into concise executive insights and recommendations.

Kenntnisse

Analytical thinking

Data orientation

AI and software fluency

Cross-functional collaboration

Executive communication

Jobbeschreibung

The Opportunity

This role sits at the intersection of technology, business, and investment decisions, helping shape how Adobe invests in technology. You’ll connect internal needs, capabilities, spend, and market shifts to help determine where Adobe should invest, reduce, or rethink its approach.

AI is reshaping the software industry—changing what technology can do, how processes unfold, and how capabilities are delivered. This creates a unique opportunity to rethink Adobe’s internal technology portfolio and how we invest in external capabilities. You’ll help rationalize and evolve the portfolio, build the insights and mechanisms that enable critical decisions, and turn strategy into action.

What You’ll Do

• Evaluate and evolve Adobe’s technology portfolio by assessing capabilities, spend, utilization, efficiency, and return on investment
• Partner with Enterprise Architecture to develop assessment frameworks that combine technical considerations with business and financial context.
• Assess how AI is redefining the landscape, including where emerging capabilities could augment or replace existing solutions and how AI tools are being adopted across Adobe.
• Understand the end-to-end software lifecycle and the operational and financial mechanisms that shape demand and spend
• Connect insights across Procurement, Finance, Strategic Partnerships, Enterprise Architecture, and business and technology teams to develop a comprehensive perspective on investments, commercial considerations, risks, and opportunities.
• Turn complex data and perspectives into concise executive insights and recommendations that enable timely decisions.
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What You Need to Succeed

• Strong structured and analytical thinking, capable of connecting market, business, financial, operational, and technology signals to form a clear point of view.
• Ability to organize ambiguous problems and move from analysis to decisions and action.
• Strong data orientation and investigative instinct —comfortable digging into data and systems, spotting inconsistencies, tracing issues to their source, and validating conclusions with evidence.
• Curiosity and fluency in software, AI, and evolving technology trends, with an ability to understand their business implications.
• Ability to work effectively with technical and functional experts, understand key nuances, and translate them into broader business implications.
• Strong executive communication skills, with the ability to distill complexity into concise insights, recommendations, and points of view.

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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AI Use Guidelines for Interviews:

Our interviews are designed to reflect your own skills and thinking. The use of AI or recording tools during live interviews is not permitted unless explicitly invited by the interviewer or approved in advance as part of a reasonable accommodation. If these tools are used inappropriately or in a way that misrepresents your work, your application may not move forward in the process.

At Adobe, we empower employees to innovate with AI — and we look for candidates eager to do the same. As part of the hiring experience, we provide clear guidance on where AI is encouraged during the process and where it’s restricted during live interviews. See how we think about AI in the hiring experience.

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 $84,000 - $175,050 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 $120,900 - $175,050

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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Adobe will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with state and local laws and “fair chance” ordinances.

Colorado:

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Massachusetts:

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It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.