Senior Director, Chief of Staff to CMO, Enterprise Marketing

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

This highly visible and strategically critical role sits within the Enterprise Marketing organization and serves as a Chief of Staff supporting the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) for Adobes Enterprise business. Operating as an extension of the CMO you will drive clarity alignment and operational excellence across the global marketing ecosystemspanning the CMOs leadership team corporate marketing (GMO) Field Sales Product Marketing Customer Success & Services teams Finance Procurement and Executive Communications.

As Senior Director you will shape and orchestrate the executive business rhythm ensuring that the CMOs priorities translate into clear coordinated execution across senior leaders and cross-functional partners. You will be responsible for aligning strategy driving key transformation initiatives and elevating leadership performance and communication across a complex rapidly evolving environment.

This role requires a senior-level operator who excels in both strategic foresight and executional rigor has exceptional executive communication skills and possesses the confidence judgment and cross-functional influence to partner directly with senior VPs global leaders and extended CMO staff. The ideal candidate is a proactive analytical relationship-oriented leader who can simplify complexity anticipate needs and drive impact at scale.

Core Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership & Executive Alignment

• Lead the CMO-level operating rhythm across functional and global teams ensuring alignment of annual quarterly and monthly priorities across senior leadership.
• Synthesize complex strategic inputs across product regional and go-to-market teams to advise the CMO recommend decisions and prepare leadership for critical business reviews.
• Serve as a trusted strategic advisor to the CMOdriving clarity identifying risks surfacing strategic insights and ensuring teams remain focused on the highest-impact initiatives.

Enterprise Marketing Planning & Performance

• Drive the Enterprise Marketing quarterly and fiscal year planning operating models in partnership with Enterprise Marketing leadership teams Field Sales Product and cross-functional groups (GMO ATS Finance HR).
• Oversee planning & prioritization cadencesincluding QBRs MBRs annual planning budget cycles and strategic offsites.
• Own performance rhythms (weekly/monthly/quarterly) including business inspection KPI alignment performance tracking and insights generation for senior leadership.
• Partner with Finance to lead spend forecasting identify optimization opportunities and ensure transparency into marketing investment ROI.

Executive Communications & Leadership Visibility

• Build and operate a comprehensive CMO-level communications frameworkincluding org-wide all-hands leadership communications operational updates in partnership with marketing leadership business ops functions and executive comms teams.
• Create executive-ready presentations CEC content board-level materials and cross-functional communications that influence and align senior audiences.

Cross-Functional Orchestration & Strategic Programs

• Partner with GMO business ops and strategy teams to drive priority alignment and program collaboration.
• Partner with Digital Experience PMO and business managers across regions to ensure global-to-regional alignment and adoption of operating models.
• Identify operational gaps across teams functions and segments; develop solutions to increase efficiency scalability and cross-team connection.

Leadership Operations & Organizational Excellence

• Manage end-to-end leadership operations including strategic offsites talent planning promotions cycles recognition programs morale/engagement efforts and VP/Sr. Director development.
• Guide senior leaders through continuous cycles of improvementsimplifying workflows improving cross-functional understanding and reinforcing organizational priorities.
• Ensure leaders have the systems insights and communication structures needed to operate at peak performance.

Skills & Experience

Leadership & Executive Influence

• Demonstrated success operating at the VP/SVP/CMO executive tier with the confidence and judgment required to advise influence and challenge senior leaders.
• Exceptional leadership relationship management and stakeholder alignment skills across complex matrixed global organizations.
• Proven ability to lead through influencedriving consensus motivating cross-functional teams and balancing diverse stakeholder needs.

Strategic & Operational Excellence

• Minimum 1215 years of experience in Marketing Operations Business Operations Strategy Communications Chief of Staff roles or similar functions.
• Demonstrated ability to move seamlessly between long-range strategic planning and hands-on execution while maintaining executive-level quality.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with experience managing budgets forecasting performance reporting and operational KPIs.

Executive Communication & Storytelling

• Outstanding written and verbal executive communication skills capable of distilling complexity into clear compelling narratives for senior audiences.
• Proven ability to build high-quality executive-level materials (presentations briefings business reviews) with meticulous attention to detail.

Business Judgment & Agility

• Ability to operate with a high degree of judgment confidentiality and autonomy in a fast-paced rapidly changing environment.
• Strong ability to triage prioritize make decisions and keep stakeholders aligned while removing roadblocks for senior leadership.

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