Director of Product Management - Adobe Builders eXperience (ABX)

Adobe; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Adobe seeks a senior product leader to own the agentic development platform and build the organizational framework from the ground up. You will shape strategy, process, and execution to enable 15,000 builders at Adobe to ship software with AI.

You will translate strategy into roadmaps and measurable success, own the platform across three agentic modes, and drive adoption at scale with a focus on shipping and minimal bottlenecks.

Qualifications

• Senior PM leadership with track record of building strategy and teams from scratch.
• Strong technical credibility—engineer instinct for builders and production code.
• Deep fluency in agentic systems: model evaluation, orchestration, cost, computation management.
• Ability to debate latency-vs-accuracy tradeoffs with principal engineers and make high-conviction bets with incomplete information.
• Strategic clarity under ambiguity, bias to action, and discomfort with process theater.
• Experience leading product for a developer or AI platform inside a large engineering organization and driving adoption at scale.
• Technical degree (CS, Math, Engineering, or related) or equivalent experience; accomplishments valued over credentials.
• Excellent communication across multiple stakeholder groups and collaboration across divisions.

Responsibilities

• Translate Builders Experience strategy into written strategy, roadmap, and measurable objectives.
• Own the platform spanning Agentic Delegation, Transformation, and Orchestration.
• Define and own OKRs from platform adoption to per-engineer output and business impact.
• Act as chief marketer and evangelist for the platform across the organization.
• Lead build-vs-buy decisions for external models and tools; evaluate labs and hyperscalers.
• Focus on shipping; remove bottlenecks and automate the SDLC while keeping human judgment where needed.
• Design operating model for AI pods and non-PM PDE-led teams.
• Direct and grow the PM organization; set hiring standards and shape culture.
• Collaborate across Adobe to model all agentic stack components: coding, CI/CD, build systems, observability.

Skills

Senior PM leadership

Technical credibility

Agentic systems

Latency vs accuracy

Strategic clarity

Platform adoption at scale

Technical degree

Cross-team communication

Education

Technical degree

Job description

Job Overview

We are looking for a product leader to own the agentic development platform and build the organizational framework from the ground up. The role focuses on strategy, process, and execution to enable 15,000 builders at Adobe to ship software with AI.

Responsibilities

• Take the Builders Experience strategy and translate it into written strategy, roadmap, and objective measures of success.
• Own the platform that spans all three modes of agentic development: Agentic Delegation, Agentic Transformation, and Agentic Orchestration.
• Define and own OKRs—starting with platform adoption and rolling through per‑engineer output, productivity, and business impact.
• Deepen trust with the Adobe Builders community, build engagement mechanisms, and act as chief marketer and evangelist for the platform across the organization.
• Lead the build‑vs‑buy decision process for external models and tools, evaluating labs, hyperscalers, and open‑weight options.
• Ensure relentless focus on shipping, remove bottlenecks, streamline team communication, and automate the SDLC while keeping humans in loop where judgment matters.
• Design the operating model for the team in partnership with engineering, creating AI pods with ownership that may be led by non‑PMs and PDE profiles.
• Direct the current PM, grow the PM organization, set hiring standards, and shape the culture.
• Collaborate widely across Adobe, modeling all agentic stack components: coding, CI/CD, build systems, observability, evaluations, and orchestration.

Qualifications

• Senior PM leadership with a track record of building strategy and teams from scratch.
• Strong technical credibility—engineer instinct for what builders want, ability to read and reason about production code.
• Deep fluency in agentic systems: model evaluation, orchestration frameworks, inference cost, computation management, and surrounding tooling stack.
• Ability to debate latency‑vs‑accuracy tradeoffs with principal engineers and make high‑conviction bets with incomplete information.
• Strategic clarity under ambiguity, bias to action, and discomfort with process theater.
• Experience leading product for a developer or AI platform inside a large engineering organization (hundreds to thousands of engineers) and driving adoption at scale.
• Technical degree (CS, Math, Engineering, or related) or equivalent experience; however, accomplishments are valued over formal credentials.
• Excellent communication across multiple stakeholder groups and the ability to collaborate across divisions.

Other Information

Adobe is a proud Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on gender, race or color, ethnicity or national origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.