Principal Product Manager, Research - AI Safety

At Adobe, our Research and AI team develops generative AI models and applications, enabling customers to ideate, build, and scale content in new ways. We're looking for a Principal PM to lead the development of commercial safety systems that help customers confidently use a wide range of AI models. You'll set the strategy and drive execution of the frameworks and protections that make our generative AI ecosystem trustworthy and commercially viable.

You'll collaborate with our AI Safety team, research scientists, legal, and engineering. This role offers growth opportunities. We seek someone comfortable with uncertainty, able to act quickly, and clarify a technically complex and legally changing area.

What you'll do

• Define and lead the roadmap for commercial safety systems throughout Adobe's model environment, collaborating with AI Safety, research, legal, and product leadership
• Translate safety research and innovations into production-ready systems and features
• Develop scalable evaluation frameworks and analyze data to grasp and convey tradeoffs between safety protections and generative quality
• Engage with customers and internal collaborators to understand governance requirements and compliance needs
• Track the evolving AI safety and regulatory landscape to build our product response
• Turn complex technical and legal concepts into clear requirements and success metrics

What you'll need

• 7+ years of product management experience
• Experience shipping AI or ML-powered products
• Comfort navigating ambiguous, fast paced legal and technical environments
• Strong cross-functional instincts; you'll collaborate across research, engineering, legal, and policy
• Strong focus on metrics; capable of measuring tradeoffs and applying data to guide decisions, particularly when safety and generation experience are in conflict
• Customer-first approach with a track record of building scalable systems grounded in real user needs

Nice to have

• Experience with AI safety, content moderation, or trust and safety systems
• Experience collaborating with legal or policy teams
• Background in generative AI

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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 $148,100 -- $282,100 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 $194,800 - $282,100In New York, the pay range for this position is $194,800 - $282,100In Washington, the pay range for this position is $178,600 - $258,700

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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