Principal Product Manager

We're looking for a Group Manager / Principal, Community Insights to join Adobe and help us understand how emerging audiences use new technologies, including AI, in their creative process. In this role, you will connect with an early access community, elevate insights, and advocate within Adobe on behalf of the community. Your work will result in products the community champions. You will lead cross-functional initiatives with influence at the Director and VP level.

What You'll Do

The role will be accountable for:

• Leading cross-functional teams to drive community insight agenda, connect with community, and harvest insights
• Influencing executives and senior leaders cross-functionally to support key decisions with community input
• Building a framework for understanding AI-first creativity through foundational relationships, advisory groups, and regular forums
• Driving community-led features to completion and ensuring community input informs product deliverables
• Building relationships and influence across marketing and PM teams, driving action, and representing community as part of their extended teams through weekly interactions

What You'll Need to Succeed

• 10+ years in customer insight, product management, or design leadership experience, ideally serving creative customers
• Familiarity with creative audience, including AI forward creativity, with a bonus if you are an AI content creator yourself
• Experience with “0 to 1” early-stage product development or intrapreneurship within a larger company
• Outstanding organization, people, and execution skills with a start-up mentality for getting things done inside a larger organization
• Strong EQ and ability to build relationships with key partners across the organization
• A strong leader and doer who doesn’t mind rolling up sleeves to get things done in a fast-paced, dynamic environment

Be an integral part of the team’s success building an understanding of the community and championing their needs across Adobe. Influence product teams and drive roadmaps across multiple teams, ensuring community roadmap items get delivered and shared back with the community!

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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Our interviews are designed to reflect your own skills and thinking. The use of AI or recording tools during live interviews is not permitted unless explicitly invited by the interviewer or approved in advance as part of a reasonable accommodation. If these tools are used inappropriately or in a way that misrepresents your work, your application may not move forward in the process.

At Adobe, we empower employees to innovate with AI — and we look for candidates eager to do the same. As part of the hiring experience, we provide clear guidance on where AI is encouraged during the process and where it’s restricted during live interviews. See how we think about AI in the hiring experience.

 

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 $140,100 -- $261,150 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 $180,300 - $261,150

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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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:

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