Principal Product Manager, Emerging Design Experiences

Adobe Inc.; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 148,000 - 282,000; Full time

Job summary

Adobe Inc. is seeking a senior product manager to help define a new product category at the intersection of creativity, AI, and modern experiences.

You will own the roadmap from concept through GA, partnering with engineering, research, PM, and marketing to drive discovery, validation, and flawless execution. The role demands strong product judgment, execution rigor in ambiguous environments, and excellent communication to influence executives and cross-functional teams.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in product management with end-to-end ownership from concept to launch.
• Track record in product development in a fast, ambiguous environment.
• Strong product judgment for creator-facing or design-adjacent tools.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Define and sharpen the product thesis for a new category.
• Drive the roadmap from early development through GA.
• Partner with engineering, research, PM, and marketing.
• Establish success metrics and evaluation frameworks.
• Represent the product narrative to executives.

Skills

Product management

Roadmap ownership

Cross-functional leadership

AI product experience

Analytical thinking

Strong communication

Job description

The Opportunity

We're building a category-defining design product at the intersection of creativity, AI, and modern application experiences. This initiative is a significant investment in the future of creative workflows. It explores how intelligent systems help people move from ideas to polished, usable outcomes faster while maintaining quality, control, and creative intent. Success will come from deeply understanding where users experience the most friction today. We will identify the audience for whom the product becomes indispensable first and craft an experience that makes a new workflow feel trustworthy, repeatable, and ready for real-world use.

What You'll Do

• Help define a new product category and sharpen the product thesis.


• Drive and evolve the product roadmap from early development through launch and GA.


• Balance product-market fit discovery with execution rigor.


• Partner closely with engineering, research, program management, and marketing.


• Drive structured discovery and validation with early users and pilot customers.


• Identify the initial target audience and highest-value use cases.


• Establish success metrics and evaluation frameworks.


• Represent the product narrative to executives and cross-functional collaborators.


• Collaborate across globally distributed teams.

What You Need to Succeed

• 8+ years of product management experience, including ownership of products from early concept or incubation through public launch and growth.


• Demonstrated success in 01 product development.


• Strong execution rigor in fast-paced, ambiguous environments.


• Excellent product judgment for design-adjacent, creator-facing, or high-craft tools.


• Strong cross-functional leadership and influence.


• Comfort engaging with technical systems and collaborating deeply with engineering teams.


• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills.


• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.


• Preferred qualifications: Experience building AI-powered products or features.

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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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 $148,100 - $282,100 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 $194,800 - $282,100

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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If this role is open to hiring in Colorado (as listed on the job posting), the application window will remain open until at least the date and time stated above in Pacific Time, in compliance with Colorado pay transparency regulations. If this role does not have Colorado listed as a hiring location, no specific application window applies, and the posting may close at any time based on hiring needs.

Massachusetts

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