Principal Product Manager, Developer Experience & API Platform

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San Jose, CA - USA

profile Yearly Salary: $ 145100 - 273200
Posted on: 30+ days ago
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy
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Job Summary

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

Join Adobes Firefly Services team and shape how developers build with generative AI. Were delivering the API layer that powers intelligent imaging and video workflowscovering 3D/2D compositing background synthesis video reframing avatars texttospeech and more. As Principal Product Manager for Developer Experience & API Platform youll define and lead how developersinside and outside Adobediscover integrate and scale with Firefly. Youll influence design standards establish documentation excellence and lead crossfunctional efforts to turn breakthrough AI into productionready developerloved services.

What Youll Own

Developer journey endtoend: define and lead DevEx across REST APIs SDKs quickstarts interactive docs testing tools and onboarding; optimize TimetoFirstSuccess (TTFS) and activation.
API coherence & quality: establish and enforce design standards (naming auth errors idempotency) run an API review/governance rhythm and drive crossteam consistency.
Lifecycle & reliability: own versioning/deprecation policy ratelimit strategy SLAs security/compliance alignment and backwardcompatibility guarantees.
Tooling & ecosystem: ship Postman collections OpenAPI specs SDKs/clients CLIs code samples and a changelog that makes updates safe and predictable.
Instrumentation & feedback loops: define DevEx telemetry (TTFS activation retained integrations API error classes) run surveys/GitHub programs and translate insights into a quarterly DevEx roadmap.
Developer portal experience: partner on IA discoverability selfserve keys/sandboxes and Hello World flows; ensure 1P/3P parity.
Crossfunctional leadership: work with Firefly engineering Creative Cloud product teams Design/Content DevRel and enterprise customers to unblock adoption and scale repeatable patterns.

What Youll Bring

8 years of product management experience with a focus on APIs/developer platforms; proven wins driving adoption and reducing integration friction.
Strong technical intuition across REST authentication (OAuth2 tokens) gateways observability backward compatibility and reliability at scale.
Track record shipping tooling & docs (OpenAPI SDKs CLIs Postman) that developers use and love.
Outcome mindset: improvedTTFS/activation reduced breakingchange risk and raised developer satisfaction in prior roles.
Exceptional communication and storytelling skillscapable of aligning engineers executives and external developers.
Passion for GenAI and creative pipelines (3D/imaging/video) and how developers productize them.

Nice to Have

Experience operating an API style guide and review council; running beta/GA and changemanagement programs.
Background with DX telemetry selfserve sandboxes/mocks and partner certification programs.
Opensource or developer community contributions (SDKs CLIs dev tools).

Why Join Us

Youll join ahigh-impact growing team thats defining the enterprise GenAI stack for Adobe. Firefly Services is where platform product thinking meets real-world adoption at scale. Youll influence how global brands automate creativity accelerate production and unlock entirely new business models.

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 positionis $$273200 annually. Paywithin this range varies by work locationand may also depend on job-related knowledge skillsand experience. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the job location during the hiring process.

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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