Sr. Manager, Strategy & Operations

Senior Strategy And Business Operations Manager

Adobe is seeking a Senior Strategy and Business Operations Manager to join the Creator Product Marketing Business Operations team. This team is responsible for driving thought leadership, planning, decision and execution processes and communication for the Creator Product Marketing & Community team, covering Creator products such as Firefly, Lightroom Mobile, Premier Mobile, and GenAI. This role works in partnership with a broad set of partner organizations (Campaign Marketing, Corporate Marketing, Product Management, Product Development, Corporate Strategy, Pricing, Branding, Product Program & Release Management, Go to Market, and Engagement & Retention).

In this highly visible role, you will partner with the Product Marketing and cross functional leaders to drive the delivery of Creator strategies. You will ensure cross-functional alignment in support of the execution of these strategies across segments. This will include:

• Supportive leader partnership with the PMM over the category
• Managing end-to-end execution of the plan/initiatives
• Leading annual strategic and operations planning
• Managing deliverable/achievement reviews and ensuring cross functional alignment prior to executive reviews
• Planning and facilitating executive reviews including capturing notes and action items
• Proactively identifying and managing risks within projects
• Communicating status and key decisions to partners and executives across various organizations within Adobe
• Providing guidance and ensuring alignment between executives and your leaders

What You Need To Succeed

• 10 or more years in a business operations, consulting, strategy, or product management function required
• Experience developing both high level and operational strategy
• Experience motivating change and working on complex cross-functional projects end-to-end and/or in highly matrixed organizations required.
• Motivated, execution-oriented high-performance individual with ability to effectively prioritize and complete tasks in a high-pressure environment
• Proven leadership and experience in identifying and solving broad and sophisticated issues
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Proven flexibility and adaptability including ability to think on your feet
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Strong influencing and interpersonal skills, and ability to develop strong relationships
• Experience working with high level executives
• Experience with planning process, and/or metrics and measurement desired
• Experience with a SAAS Software Company strongly preferred
• MBA Degree preferred OR 10+ years of experience OR equivalent practical experience.