Director, Product Management – Firefly AI Platform

Our Company

Changing the world through digital experiences is what Adobes all about. We give everyonefrom emerging artists to global brandseverything they need to design and deliver exceptional digital experiences! Were passionate about empowering people to create beautiful and powerful images videos and apps and transform how companies interact with customers across every screen.

Were 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

Firefly is a new product service and collection of creative generative AI models coming to Adobe products that offers a new way to ideate create and scale content. Its a natural exponential extension of the technology that Adobe has created over the past 40 the heart of Firefly are our commercially safe generative AI models that are trained on hundreds of millions of visual contents owned or licensed by Adobe.

We are hiring a Director of Product Management to lead the Adobe AI platform spanning Data Inference and Training modules. The ideal candidate is a seasoned AI/ML product management leader with experience building a worldclass platform empowering applied AI/ML researchers and ML engineers to train and deliver bestinclass models. They excel at strategy. They thrive in ambiguity. They know when to be confident and when to scale. They are a systems thinker and a technology platform builder at heart. They cultivate a fun fast inclusive collaborative empathetic candid culture with their crossfunctional partners.

What Youll Do

• You will own the vision and strategy of the Adobe AI Platform as a selfserve Product to accelerate Adobes Gen AI offerings to our customers.

• You and your team will define the platforms vision roadmap and quality.

• You will drive the prioritization of technical work together with engineering management and program management.

• You will work closely with our researchers applied scientists platform engineers product engineers executive stakeholders and various teams to deliver a selfserve platform.

• Articulate the vision in a way that resonates with diverse audiences fostering a shared sense of purpose and direction.

• Lead a team of highimpact product managers to bring the vision roadmap and execution to fruition in longlasting ways that reflect a deep sensitivity to customer needs mentoring them to achieve excellence in the quality of PM artifacts (roadmaps backlogs PRDs) and datadriven decision making.

• Apply datadriven insights from market trends customer feedback and the competitive landscape to make informed decisions about priorities. Analyze the impact of the activities and refine them as needed to create an environment of continuous learning and iteration across the organization.

• Spot risks find opportunities identify competitive landscapes and emerging trends and understand implications breaking insights into pragmatic actions.

• Bring a combination of critical thinking and pragmatic delivery to yield the best shortterm and longterm results through defined product requirements prioritized features and a competitive landscape.

• Drive a robust software development process that is agile predictable and results oriented.

• Evaluate and optimize organizational structures and processes for enhanced efficiency and agility.

• Champion 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.

Whats Needed to Succeed

• Bachelors or Masters Degree in computer science engineering physics or related areas.
• Demonstrated product management leadership experience of 10 years including leading highly versatile and complementary teams of product managers.

• Experience with Generative AI and Cloud platform technologies.

• Demonstrated excellence in customer insight critical thinking and product innovation.

• Ability to lead and influence others through technical excellence and stellar execution.

• Track record of product roadmap definition and execution.

• An inherently collaborative and leading personality that enables you to win the hearts and minds of your peers to implement a complex product roadmap.

• Consistent record of building and leading hardworking teams.

• A sense of urgency and ability to act quickly and conclusively possessing selfconfidence to be assertive when taking a position and not afraid to make decisions.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal abilities with the skills to influence at all organizational levels.

• Demonstrated experience working in a scaled matrixed environment collaborating across all functions business units and geographies.

• Shown success in driving positive cultural change and in fostering an environment where employees feel connected and motivated to collaborate.

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