Design Engineering Program Manager - San Francisco, United States - Adobe

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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

    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

    Design Operations is looking to hire for an exciting new role for Adobe Design, Engineering Program Manager.

    This position plays a meaningful leadership role in Adobe Design's effort to improve our Spectrum engineering pipeline and the strategic direction of the product.

    This position will play a key role in driving strategic cross- organizational, multi-team development programs that deliver high-quality technical solutions to the design system.

    What you'll Do


    Work closely with engineering director, engineering managers, and senior engineers to ensure accurate assessment, prioritization, visibility of near and long-term product strategies for Spectrum CSS, SWC and Spectrum iOS.


    Collaborate with engineering to help establish timelines, priorities, scope and deliverables for our Figma tooling pipeline, design data system and Spectrum websites.

    Communicate to partners the vision and roadmap for how asset delivery will continuously improve over a forward-looking period


    Leads end-of-sprint rituals such as demos and retrospectives and handles critical operational infrastructure such as communication channels and agile planning tools.

    Coordinating cross-team dependencies and identifying gaps to remove blockers from the development lifecycle


    Responsible for tracking and reporting Spectrum usage metrics for implementations, data gathering, formatting and sharing reports with product and design leadership.

    Identify potential project risks, build mitigation plans and engage the right partners to remove obstacles to success.

    Anticipate operational inefficiencies, infrastructure inefficiencies and develop improvements or new processes, and get consensus from key stakeholders

    Proactively engage with customers, and be the point of contact for customer feedback.

    You'll capture input through surveys and other mechanisms about developer satisfaction and the usage of Spectrum that we can use to improve our implementations


    Continuously seeking out areas of improvement for process and collaboration, removing obstacles, and accelerating the team's progress throughout ideation, development, and go-to-market.

    What you need to succeed

    4+ years of relevant experience in a technology environment.

    Proven delivery of large-scale programs and projects.

    A genuine passion for user experience and design with an understanding of the design and engineering process.

    Experience with Scrum, familiarity with Figma, GitHub & Jira. Strong verbal, presentation, and written communication skills.

    Strong conflict resolution skills to lead in an environment of ambiguity and a diverse range of partners.

    How to apply

    To be considered for this role, please submit your resume.

    We'd especially like to see examples of high-stakes, ambiguous projects that you've driven from start-to-finish, and any experience working across teams and partners.

    About Adobe Design

    Adobe Design builds tools that amplify the world's ability to create and communicate.

    We're a distributed team of designers, researchers, prototypers, content strategists, program managers, and more who work across Adobe's three product lines:
    Creative Cloud, Document Cloud, and Experience Cloud.
    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 $102,900 $190,200 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.
    Adobe is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and affirmative action employer.

    We do not discriminate based on gender, race or color, ethnicity or national origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other applicable characteristics protected by law.

    Learn more.

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    Adobe values a free and open marketplace for all employees and has policies in place to ensure that we do not enter into illegal agreements with other companies to not recruit or hire each other's employees.

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