Senior Global Business Manager, Workplace Strategy & Site Operations

Adobe Inc.; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 172,000 - 248,000; Full time

Job summary

Adobe Inc. is seeking a Senior Business Operations Manager to build and lead a global business management function within Workplace Strategy & Site Operations.

In this role, you will connect cross-functional teams, establish operating rhythms, govern priorities, and provide reporting and insights to executives, enabling leaders to focus on strategic outcomes at scale. The position emphasizes strategic program and process management, financial coordination, vendor oversight, and AI enablement

Qualifications

• Significant experience in business operations, PMO, strategy execution, organizational effectiveness, or management consulting.
• Strong ability to influence senior leaders across global teams.
• Experience establishing governance frameworks, operating rhythms, and reporting structures that scale.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a strategic connector across the WSSO organization, driving collaboration, alignment, and effective handoffs between teams and XFN partners with interconnected responsibilities.
• Establish and manage operating rhythms, governance processes, and decision-making frameworks that improve clarity of ownership and execution effectiveness.
• Coordinate planning activities, including objectives and key results, annual planning cycles, and quarterly business reviews (QBRs).
• Lead or coordinate cross-functional initiatives and PMO activities, providing structure and oversight for high-priority organizational programs.
• Develop and implement internal communications strategies that improve organizational alignment and transparency, partnering with workplace leaders to create consistent messaging and engagement approaches.

Job description

The Opportunity

We're looking for a Senior Business Operations Manager to build and lead a global business management function within Workplace Strategy & Site Operations (WSSO)-Adobe's organization responsible for shaping where, how, and how well our people work around the world.

In this role, you'll serve as the connective tissue across a globally distributed organization-driving alignment on priorities, governance, operating rhythms, reporting, and cross-functional team engagement so that WSSO's leaders can focus on strategic outcomes rather than operational friction. You'll centralize and mature core enabling capabilities, including business operations, strategic program and process management, organizational communications, reporting and business insights, financial coordination, vendor management, and AI enablement.

This is a high-visibility opportunity for a strategic operator who thrives on translating ambiguity into structure, building trusted relationships with senior leaders, and driving operational excellence at scale.

What you'll do

Organizational Effectiveness & Business Operations

• Serve as a strategic connector across the WSSO organization, driving collaboration, alignment, and effective handoffs between teams and XFN partners with interconnected responsibilities.


• Establish and manage operating rhythms, governance processes, and decision-making frameworks that improve clarity of ownership and execution effectiveness.


• Coordinate planning activities, including objectives and key results, annual planning cycles, and quarterly business reviews (QBRs).

Program & Process Management

• Lead or coordinate cross-functional initiatives and PMO activities, providing structure and oversight for high-priority organizational programs.


• Track execution against key objectives and support prioritization and resource alignment across competing initiatives.


• Develop and implement internal communications strategies that improve organizational alignment and transparency, partnering with workplace leaders to create consistent messaging and engagement approaches.

Financial & Vendor Management

• Partner with Finance, budget owners, and leadership to support planning, forecasting, reporting, and budget governance.


• Coordinate organization-wide financial reporting and insights, and support vendor management processes, governance, and performance oversight.

Data, Reporting & Business Insights

• Help further develop WSSO's reporting frameworks, dashboards, and business metrics that provide actionable insights and improve organizational visibility.


• Translate operational data into recommendations that support executive decision-making.

AI Enablement & Continuous Improvement

• Champion innovation and operational modernization throughout the organization, and help scale procedures that continuously improve organizational effectiveness.

Team Culture & Knowledge Management

• Support employee engagement, recognition, and team effectiveness initiatives. Improve knowledge management practices, including collaboration platforms, documentation, and shared resources, and promote consistency in processes, standards, and ways of working globally.

What you need to succeed

• Significant experience in business operations, PMO, strategy execution, organizational effectiveness, or management consulting, ideally with a strong background in global corporate real estate and workplace.


• A highly strategic operator with strong business insight and demonstrated success building and leading business management or operational functions that drive consistency, transparency, and rigor across a complex organization.


• Comfortable influencing senior leaders and operating across global teams with competing priorities and diverse partners.


• Strong skills in executive communications, financial coordination, and change management.


• Experience establishing governance frameworks, operating rhythms, and reporting structures that scale.


• Passionate about using technology and AI to improve business outcomes and modernize methods of operation.

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 $133,400 -- $248,400 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 $171,600 - $248,400

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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