Sr. Strategy & Operations Manager

Adobe; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 202,000; Full time

Job summary

Adobe seeks a Strategy & Operations Partner to drive high-priority marketing strategy initiatives, aligned with the Sr. Director of Marketing Strategy & Insights. This role augments the operating rhythm, surfaces risks, and ensures portfolio clarity, acting as the connective tissue across the organization.

The candidate will structure ambiguity, communicate with executive clarity, and collaborate across global teams to accelerate execution and decision-making.

Qualifications

• 5-7 years’ experience in strategy consulting, investment banking, corporate strategy, or marketing strategy.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a trusted advisor to the Sr. Director of Marketing Strategy & Insights, shaping strategic priorities, executive communications, and leadership forums.
• Lead the operating rhythm for key marketing processes, ensuring executive forums and governance structures drive decisions, resolve trade-offs, and accelerate execution.
• Anticipate strategic risks and opportunities by monitoring market trends, competitive activity, and internal business dynamics.
• Manage organizational governance, including decision-making frameworks, prioritization processes, and accountability models that improve cross-functional execution.
• Partner across business units, global teams, and external partners to ensure alignment with enterprise priorities.
• Translate complex data into actionable insights that support executive decision-making.
• Identify business trends, performance gaps, and growth opportunities, and recommend strategies to improve outcomes.
• Develop executive presentations, board materials, and leadership communications that clearly convey business performance, impact, and future direction.

Skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Project management

Executive communication

Influence

Organization & prioritization

Tools

Workfront

SharePoint

Excel

Job description

The Opportunity

As the Strategy & Operations Partner to the Sr. Director of Marketing Strategy & Insights, you drive the highest priority projects to improve the operating rhythm behind a high-performing marketing organization. This is a business strategy role embedded in marketing, aligning priorities, surfacing risks, and ensuring the portfolio runs with clarity and precision.

The Opportunity

As the Strategy & Operations Partner to the Sr. Director of Marketing Strategy & Insights, you drive the highest priority projects to improve the operating rhythm behind a high-performing marketing organization. This is a business strategy role embedded in marketing, aligning priorities, surfacing risks, and ensuring the portfolio runs with clarity and precision. You own the answer, bringing structure to complexity and awareness of what matters most. You are the connective tissue across the organization — the person others rely on to understand portfolio health, navigate competing priorities, and keep momentum moving forward. This role is ideal for someone with experience working with large organizations, who thinks in systems, communicates with executive clarity, and thrives on building the infrastructure that enables great work.

What You’ll Do

• Serve as a trusted advisor to the Sr. Director of Marketing Strategy & Insights, shaping strategic priorities, executive communications, and leadership forums.
• Lead the operating rhythm for key marketing processes, ensuring executive forums and governance structures drive decisions, resolve trade-offs, and accelerate execution.
• Anticipate strategic risks and opportunities by monitoring market trends, competitive activity, and internal business dynamics.
• Manage organizational governance, including decision-making frameworks, prioritization processes, and accountability models that improve cross-functional execution.
• Partner across business units, global teams, and external partners to ensure alignment with enterprise priorities.
• Translate complex data into actionable insights that support executive decision-making.
• Identify business trends, performance gaps, and growth opportunities, and recommend strategies to improve outcomes.
• Develop executive presentations, board materials, and leadership communications that clearly convey business performance, impact, and future direction.

What You Need To Succeed

• 5-7 years’ experience, ideally in strategy consulting, investment banking, corporate strategy, or marketing strategy
• Experience working in large, matrixed organizations with cross-functional teams
• Highly organized with excellent project management and prioritization skills
• Comfortable managing up, across, and down with strong communication and influence
• Proficiency with collaboration and planning tools (e.g., Workfront, SharePoint, Excel)
• Proactive, meticulous, and solutions-focused approach
• A great teammate who can bring structure to ambiguity and calm to chaos

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

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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 $98,800 -- $202,250 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 $139,700 - $202,250. 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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