Senior Manager, Analytics and Data Science - Firefly

Adobe; San Jose (CA); Hybrid; USD 196,000 - 284,000; Full time

Job summary

Adobe Firefly is seeking a Senior Data Analytics Leader to guide product and business decisions through data science, analytics strategy, and machine-learning initiatives. You will build and mentor a growing team, partnering with product, marketing, and engineering to shape the roadmap with data-driven insights.

This hybrid California role emphasizes hands-on analysis early on, then leadership across multiple workstreams, delivering dashboards, predictive models, and robust experimentation,

Qualifications

• BS, MS, or PhD in an analytical field (statistics, applied mathematics, CS, engineering, economics, physics, etc.) or equivalent practical experience.
• 4+ years leading analytics & data science groups, mentoring senior ICs.
• 5+ years proficiency in Python and SQL.
• Strong querying/manipulation of large datasets on cloud platforms (Databricks, Spark-SQL, Airflow).
• Solid foundation in statistics and data visualization.
• Experience with A/B testing and sampling methods.
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills.

Responsibilities

• Play a hands-on analytical role in early months, then transition to leading a team of data analysts and scientists.
• Develop understanding of customers, products, and business performance to inform decisions.
• Act as trusted advisor to Product, Marketing, GTM, PLG, and Engineering to guide the roadmap with data-driven insights.
• Partner with leadership to shape analytics and experimentation strategy for Firefly.
• Identify risks and opportunities and prioritize initiatives to drive business growth.
• Define key measurements and monitor product performance and health.
• Collaborate to roadmap analytics initiatives delivering business value.
• Perform deep dives, build predictive models and dashboards for insights.
• Deliver actionable recommendations to improve product and business outcomes.
• Improve reporting and data tools to empower data-driven decision-making.

Skills

Leadership of analytics teams

Python

SQL

Data visualization

A/B testing

Communication

Education

BS/MS/PhD in analytical field

Tools

Databricks

Spark-SQL

Airflow

Tableau

PowerBI

AWS

Azure

Job description

The Opportunity

Adobe Firefly is transforming how creators ideate, create, and express themselves through generative AI. As Firefly continues to scale, data-driven growth and high-quality experimentation are core to how we learn, prioritize, and deliver value to millions of users.

The Opportunity

This hybrid role mixes hands-on analytical tasks with strategic leadership as you build and expand a team during rapid growth. You will work closely with Firefly Product, Leadership, PMM, GTM, PLG, and Engineering teams. You will also collaborate with participants across the organization to influence strategy, roadmap, and investment decisions throughout the customer lifecycle. Your duties include developing insights that guide product and business choices and creating data science models.

What you’ll do

• Play a hands-on analytical role during your first few months. Then, transition to managing, mentoring, and leading a team of data analysts and scientists. You will ensure high-quality work, clear growth paths for team members, and balanced resourcing across workstreams.
• Develop and maintain a deep understanding of our customers, products, and business performance to inform data-driven decisions
• Function as a trusted advisor for counterparts on Product, Marketing, GTM, PLG, and Engineering teams to guide the roadmap by providing data-driven insights and proposals
• Partner with senior and executive leadership to shape Firefly's analytics and experimentation strategy
• Anticipate risks and roadblocks before they surface, and proactively define and prioritize the opportunities most worth pursuing to grow the business
• Define important measurements and lead monitoring of these to assess product performance and track product health
• Partner with multi-functional partners and the analytics product manager to develop and complete a roadmap of analytics initiatives. These initiatives will drive the most business value for the suite of Firefly products the team manages.
• Perform advanced deep dives, build predictive models and dashboards to mine insights
• Combine data, experimentation, and insights based on detailed examination to deliver actionable recommendations that address opportunities for product improvements
• Improve reporting and data tools to empower data-driven decision-making in the workstreams you support

What you’ll need to succeed

Required

• BS, MS, or PhD in an analytical field: statistics, applied mathematics, computer science, engineering, economics, physics etc. or equivalent practical experience
• Over 4 years of experience leading analytics & data science groups, including mentoring senior individual contributors
• 5+ years of proficiency in Python and SQL
• Strong proficiency in querying and manipulating large datasets using SQL-like languages on cloud (Databricks, Spark-SQL, Airflow)
• Strong fundamentals in statistics as well as shown skills in data visualizations
• Experience with A/B testing and sampling methods
• Good communication and relationship building skills

Preferred / nice-to-have

• A track record spanning over 3 years in contemporary data science processes in cloud environments (Git, Jupyter, Python, AWS, Azure)
• Ability to support multiple ongoing projects in a fast-paced environment
• Solid background in data warehousing, data modeling, data access, and data storage techniques
• Experience crafting dashboards in Tableau or PowerBI
• Expert in one or more data science tools such as Pandas, NumPy etc
• Experience with Adobe Analytics or a similar web analytics tool
• Experience building data processing machine learning models in a product environment
• Familiarity with ML for propensity estimation and causal inference with observational data or experimental designs

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.

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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 position is $144,800 -- $284,325 annually. Pay within this range varies by work location and 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 $196,400 - $284,325

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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