Principal Product Manager, Graph

Adobe; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 148,100 - 282,100; Full time

Job summary

Adobe is seeking a Principal Product Manager in San Jose to lead the vision and strategy for the Firefly Graph ecosystem. This role requires significant product management experience, with a strong emphasis on technical capabilities and user empathy.

The ideal candidate will establish the long-term vision for the Graph platform, collaborate with engineering, and drive user discovery efforts. The expected pay range for this position is $148,100 – $282,100 annually.

Qualifications

• 8–12+ years of product management experience, preferably with technical products.
• Ability to understand interconnected systems and user needs.
• Strong communication skills for complex concepts.

Responsibilities

• Establish long-term vision and strategy for Graph platform.
• Collaborate with engineering on problem-solving.
• Lead user discovery efforts for graph-based systems.

Skills

Product management experience

Systems thinking

Empathy for users

Communication skills

Job description

Overview

We're looking for a Principal Product Manager to lead the vision, strategy, and execution for growing the Firefly Graph ecosystem. Graph is a highly technical product used to build, visualize, implement, and share complex workflows through graph-based systems. Firefly Graph powers both an advanced node-based editor and downstream, simplified experiences built on top of those graphs.

Responsibilities

• Establish the long‑term vision and strategy for the Graph platform, encompassing the plugins, APIs, extensibility, and interoperability across products and surfaces for both internal teams and customers.
• Define what “great” looks like for graph‑based authoring across beginner, advanced, and expert users, including how it flows across power‑user tooling and simplified downstream experiences.
• Lead discovery efforts to deeply understand user workflows, difficulties, and mental models in graph‑based and agentic systems.
• Collaborate with design to build interaction patterns for node creation, connections, layouts, debugging, inspection, and working at scale.
• Collaborate closely with engineering to divide large, unclear problems into deliverable segments while maintaining architectural consistency.
• Act as a bridge between user needs and technical realities, setting clear outcomes while avoiding prescriptive implementation decisions.

Qualifications

• 8–12+ years of product management experience, with significant ownership of complex, technical, or platform products.
• Strong systems thinking with the ability to reason about interconnected components, constraints, and emergent behavior.
• Empathy for power users and creators who depend on accuracy, rapidity, debuggability, and adaptability.
• Comfort working closely with highly technical engineering teams on performance‑critical, architecture‑heavy systems.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, especially for complex and abstract concepts.

Bonus Points

• Background in developer tools, creative tools, game engines, VFX pipelines, ML tooling, data platforms, or automation systems.
• Experience with extensible platforms, plugin systems, SDKs, or scripting environments.
• Exposure to workflows powered by artificial intelligence, generative systems, or model orchestration tools.

Pay & Benefits

Expected Pay Range: $148,100 – $282,100 annually (U.S.)

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

Adobe is aEqual 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.