Principal Product Manager – Developer Platform

Adobe Systems GmbH; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 145,000 - 274,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Principal Product Manager to enhance embeddable creative experiences across its platform. This role involves strategic product vision, extensive collaboration with engineering and design teams, as well as mentorship of junior product managers. Ideal candidates will possess over 10 years of experience in product management and a strong technical background, ensuring contributions to innovative digital experiences.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in product management with platform and SDK experience.
• Comfortable working with APIs, SDKs, and front-end frameworks.
• Strong executive presence with excellent communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive long-term roadmap for partner embedded experiences.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to align efforts.
• Serve as voice of strategic partners translating feedback into product capabilities.

Skills

Product Management

Platform Acuity

Technical Communication

Teamwork

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Product Design

Job description

Our Company

Changing the world through digital experiences is what Adobe’s all about. We give everyone—from emerging artists to global brands—everything they need to design and deliver exceptional digital experiences! We’re passionate about empowering people to create beautiful and powerful images, videos, and apps, and transform how companies interact with customers across every screen.

We’re on a mission to hire the very best and are committed to creating exceptional employee experiences where everyone is respected and has access to equal opportunity. We realize that new ideas can come from everywhere in the organization, and we know the next big idea could be yours!

About the Developer Platform, Adobe Express & the Embed SDK

The Developer Platform team's mission is to ensure Adobe’s creative products are built with extensibility in mind. Adobe Express is the quick and easy creative-anything app and platform for everyone from small businesses to enterprise teams to students and teachers. Built on this platform, the Adobe Express Embed SDK empowers partners and customers to seamlessly integrate Adobe’s generative and editing superpowers into their own applications, enabling users to build and publish content without leaving their workflow.

The Opportunity

We are seeking a visionary and technically proficient Principal Product Manager to own the evolution of embeddable creative experiences across our platform. In this strategic role, you will be responsible for the roadmap for Embedded experiences within partner applications like Box, Miro, and EA Sports. You will drive platform-level decisions, and influence partner integration strategy across multiple partner surfaces.

What You'll Do

• Own Product Vision and Strategy: Define and drive the long-term roadmap for partner Embedded experiences, ensuring it meets the needs of developers, end users, and strategic partners.
• Cross-Functional Influence: Partner with engineering, design, architecture, and business teams to align efforts and define scalable, modular solutions.
• Partner Engagement: Serve as the voice of strategic partners and high-impact developers, translating their feedback into product capabilities that drive adoption.
• Platform Thinking: Guide architectural decisions that enable embeddable solutions across Adobe’s ecosystem, from Acrobat and Express to external platforms.
• Mentorship and Leadership: Collaborate with and support senior product managers, contributing to a high-performance product culture.

What You'll Bring

• Experience: 10+ years in product management with significant experience in platform, SDK, extensibility products, and mobile application development strongly preferred.
• Technical Acuity: Comfortable working with APIs, SDKs, and front-end frameworks; able to drive conversations with architects and engineers.
• Communication Skills: Strong executive presence, can communicate complex concepts clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ecosystem Mentality: Deep understanding of developer experience and the value of extensible platforms.
• Teamwork: Proven ability to align cross-functional teams and drive progress through influence.
• Strategic Storyteller: An outstanding Product Manager is an extraordinary storyteller, and in clearly written product requirements.

Preferred Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Engineering, Product Design. MBA or advanced technical degree is a plus.
• Creative Tools Experience: Familiarity with design software, content creation platforms, or creative workflows.
• Developer Platform Background: Experience building or scaling SDKs, APIs, or platform ecosystems.

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 $145,100 -- $273,200 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.

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.

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California:

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Colorado:

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Massachusetts:

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