Senior Director, Product Management – Video and Audio
Adobe
- San Jose, CA
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Lead the product strategy for Adobe’s award-winning Digital Video and Audio products, including Premiere Pro, After Effects, and Audition.
- Define and drive objectives and key results for transformational initiatives partnering with cross-functional category leadership to include design, product marketing, and engineering.
- Articulate the vision in a way that resonates with diverse audiences, fostering a shared sense of purpose and direction. Foster an environment where employees are inspired to contribute to realizing the vision.
- Spot risks, find opportunities, identify competitive landscapes, and emerging trends, and understand implications, breaking insights down into pragmatic actions.
- Lead and build a team of high-impact product managers to bring the vision, roadmap and execution to fruition in long-lasting ways that reflect a deep sensitivity to customer needs.
- Drive excellence in experience and execution across the platform portfolio in partnership with design and product marketing.
- Lead a team of product managers who have deep experience in the industry, coaching them to achieve excellence in quality of PM artifacts (roadmaps, backlogs, PRDs) and data-driven decision making.
- Bring a combination of critical thinking and pragmatic delivery to yield the best short-term and long-term results through defined product requirement, prioritized features and competitive landscape.
- Drive a robust software development process that is agile, predictable, and results oriented. Bring a combination of critical thinking and pragmatic delivery to yield the best short-term as well as long-term results.
- Evaluate and optimize organizational structures and processes for enhanced efficiency and agility.
- Apply data-driven insights from market trends, customer feedback, and the competitive landscape to make informed decisions about product priorities. Analyze the impact of the activities and refine them as needed to create an environment of continuous learning and iteration across the organization.
- Interactions frequently involve highly visible activities including influencing customers, partners and other executives.
- Manage and allocate budgets effectively, ensuring optimal resource utilization.
- Champion diversity and inclusion initiatives, ensuring a workplace that celebrates and respects differences.
- Foster a sense of belonging and purpose, encouraging a strong connection to the vision and mission. Encourage a culture of continuous feedback, both formal and informal, to support individual and team development.
- Be a leader with vision and evangelist in creating exceptional customer experiences.
- Be on the lookout for strategic partnerships and M&A opportunities to bring more capabilities to Adobe. Should an opportunity present itself, the candidate should be able to build the case, bring it to the executive team and make the right relationship happen.
- Proven product management leadership experience of 10+ years, including leading highly versatile and diverse teams of product managers.
- Demonstrated excellence in the areas of customer insight, critical thinking, and product innovation.
- Track record of product roadmap definition and execution.
- The inherently collaborative and leading personality that enables you to win the hearts and minds of your peers to implement a complex product roadmap.
- Proven track record of building and leading hard-working teams.
- Proven track record of deep partnership with engineering, product marketing, and design counterparts.
- A sense of urgency and ability to act quickly and decisively, possessing self-confidence to be assertive when taking a position, and not afraid to make decisions.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence at all organizational levels.
- Demonstrated experience working in a matrixed environment at scale partnering across all functions, business units, and geographies
- Demonstrated success in driving positive cultural change.
- Demonstrated success in fostering an environment where employees feel connected and motivated to collaborate.