Senior Manager, Strategy & Operations, Digital Media

Adobe; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Manager of Strategy & Operations to join their dynamic Digital Media team. This pivotal role involves leading cross-functional initiatives, optimizing operations, and delivering impactful results. The ideal candidate will thrive in a fast-paced environment, solving complex problems while building strong relationships across various organizational levels. If you are passionate about driving strategic outcomes and enjoy working collaboratively to influence senior leaders, this is a fantastic opportunity to make a significant impact in an innovative environment.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in management consulting or business operations.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work in ambiguity.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of key initiatives and drive strategic priorities.
• Partner across product groups and corporate strategies to align on key topics.

Skills

Management Consulting

Business Operations

Strategic Planning

Problem-Solving

Cross-Functional Collaboration

Data Analysis

Education

MBA

Job description

Senior Manager, Strategy & Operations, Digital Media

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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!

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 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.