Principal Product Manager – Developer 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!

About the Developer Platform Adobe Express & the Embed SDK

The Developer Platform teams mission is to ensure Adobes creative products are built with extensibility in mind. Adobe Express is the quick and easy creative-anything app and platform for everyone from small businesses to enterprise teams to students and teachers. Built on this platform the Adobe Express Embed SDK empowers partners and customers to seamlessly integrate Adobes generative and editing superpowers into their own applications enabling users to build and publish content without leaving their workflow.

The Opportunity

We are seeking a visionary and technically proficient Principal Product Manager to own the evolution of embeddable creative experiences across our platform. In this strategic role you will be responsible for the roadmap for Embedded experiences within partner applications like Box Miro and EA Sports. You will drive platform-level decisions and influence partner integration strategy across multiple partner surfaces.

What Youll Do

• Own Product Vision and Strategy: Define and drive the long-term roadmap for partner Embedded experiences ensuring it meets the needs of developers end users and strategic partners.
• Cross-Functional Influence: Partner with engineering design architecture and business teams to align efforts and define scalable modular solutions.
• Partner Engagement: Serve as the voice of strategic partners and high-impact developers translating their feedback into product capabilities that drive adoption.
• Platform Thinking: Guide architectural decisions that enable embeddable solutions across Adobes ecosystem from Acrobat and Express to external platforms.
• Mentorship and Leadership: Collaborate with and support senior product managers contributing to a high-performance product culture.

What Youll Bring

• Experience: 10 years in product management with significant experience in platform SDK extensibility products and mobile application development strongly preferred.
• Technical Acuity: Comfortable working with APIs SDKs and front-end frameworks; able to drive conversations with architects and engineers.
• Communication Skills: Strong executive presence can communicate complex concepts clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ecosystem Mentality: Deep understanding of developer experience and the value of extensible platforms.
• Teamwork: Proven ability to align cross-functional teams and drive progress through influence.
• Strategic Storyteller: An outstanding Product Manager is an extraordinary storyteller and in clearly written product requirements.

Preferred Qualifications

• Education: Bachelors degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science Engineering Product Design. MBA or advanced technical degree is a plus.
• Creative Tools Experience: Familiarity with design software content creation platforms or creative workflows.
• Developer Platform Background: Experience building or scaling SDKs APIs or platform ecosystems.

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