Senior Manager, Strategy & Operations, Digital Media

Adobe; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 138,000 - 265,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative company is seeking a Senior Manager of Strategy & Operations to lead critical initiatives in Digital Media. This role involves cross-functional collaboration to optimize operations and drive results. If you thrive in dynamic environments and enjoy solving complex problems, this is your chance to make a significant impact. Join a team that values clarity and execution, and help shape the future of digital experiences. With a focus on empowering creativity, this position offers an opportunity to influence senior leaders and drive strategic decisions.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in management consulting or business operations.
• Demonstrated experience in complex cross-functional projects.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of key initiatives and drive operational priorities.
• Work with leaders to solve issues and provide insights for decision-making.

Skills

Management Consulting

Business Operations

Strategic Planning

Problem Solving

Cross-functional Collaboration

Education

MBA

Job description

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Our Company

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!

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 moving and powerful images, videos, and apps, and transform how companies get along 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 insights can come from everywhere in the organization, and we know the next big idea could be yours!
  
  

The Opportunity

• The Strategy & Operations team in Digital Media is looking for a dynamic and driven Senior Manager of Strategy & Operations to join our high-performing team. In this pivotal role, you’ll work cross-functionally to shape and complete critical central initiatives, optimize operations, and drive significant results across the organization. You’ll be on a highly effective team that values impact, clarity, and execution—turning vision into outcomes and helping the business scale with purpose. If you’re energized by solving sophisticated problems, influencing senior leaders, and making things happen, this is your opportunity to lead from the front and make a lasting impact.
• This highly visible role will partner cross-functionally to drive the successful delivery of our business and cross app strategies. The ideal candidate loves to solve problems, is adept at establishing relationships in a highly matrixed environment, and thrives at the center of the action solving problems without hesitation.
  
  

What You’ll Do

• Work with leaders and cross-functional teams to solve issues, provide insights, and recommendations to support decision-making, and build aligned plans on pivotal initiatives
• Lead end-to-end delivery of key initiatives including proactive identification and mitigation of risks to achieve business goals
• Drive multiple, simultaneous, complex, strategic and operational priorities / workstreams, frequently leading large partner groups
• Identify strategic and operational improvements to improve the business including creating and refining processes to improve efficiency & simplify workflows
• Partner across the product groups, corporate strategies, finance, analytics, GTM, and more to align multiple leaders on key topics and help drive annual planning
• Partner with functional leads to develop content and craft exec-level presentations, narratives, and emails that simply communicate sophisticated topics
• Leverage business knowledge to develop insights that support business decisions, translating data and ambiguous topics into compelling, easy to understand narratives
  
  

What You Need To Succeed

• 7+ years of experience in management consulting, business operations, or strategic and operations required .
• Demonstrated experience working on complex cross-functional projects end-to-end and/or in highly matrixed organizations
• Strong problem-solving skills. You're very comfortable with ambiguity and capable of applying structured, logical approaches to “blank sheet” projects
• Self-motivation and a clear bias for action with the ability to effectively prioritize in a fast-paced environment
• The ability to build strong relationships and able to actively engage and influence people at all organizational levels, building coalitions and communicating continuously to partner teams, collaborators, and executives.
• Adaptability, grit, and a desire to roll up your sleeves to get things done. We color outside the lines and are willing to help the team with what is necessary to drive progress
• Positivity that rubs off on those around you. You’re someone that people like to work with and you bring that positivity to a variety of situations
• MBA is a preferred
  
  

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 $138,400 -- $264,200 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.

State-Specific Notices:

California:

Fair Chance Ordinances

Adobe will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with state and local laws and “fair chance” ordinances.

Colorado:

Application Window Notice

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:

Massachusetts Legal Notice

It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.

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Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Director

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Business Development and Sales

• Industries

  Advertising Services, IT Services and IT Consulting, and Software Development

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