Director of Product Management, Adobe Lightroom Creative Pro

The Opportunity

Adobe Lightroom is the worlds leading photography ecosystem empowering photographers to edit manage store and share images across desktop mobile and web.

As professional photography is reshaped by AI automation new client expectations and a rapidly evolving competitive landscape we are looking for a Director of Product Management to help define what the modern professional photography workflow becomes next.

This is a senior individual-contributor role for someone with deep product leadership experience and demonstrated proficiency in professional photography. You will represent the needs of photographers currently engaged with Lightroom helping teams understand where pros need more speed quality trust creative control and workflow efficiency. You will lead key parts of the Creative Pro offering plan within Lightrooms overall strategy.

Working closely with product managers designers engineers researchers product marketers and advanced technology teams you will translate real-world professional workflows into product direction roadmap priorities and shipped experiences.

This role requires a rare combination of customer empathy product taste technical curiosity strategic judgment and senior-level influence. You will help shape how AI agents and new workflow innovations can make Lightroom dramatically more valuable to professional photographers while preserving craft intent and control.

What Youll Do

• Shape the Creative Pro product agenda.
• Lead key product strategy workstreams for the Creative Pro audience across Lightroom surfaces including desktop mobile and web.
• Identify high-value opportunities across professional workflows including ingest culling editing retouching masking batch editing collaboration client review delivery and archive.
• Translate photographers jobs to be done into clear product principles requirements priorities and success measures.
• Help define how Lightroom can offer greater benefits to working photographers over the next several years.
• Represent professional photographers inside Adobe.
• Serve as a trusted voice for working photographers across genres including wedding portrait event commercial wildlife sports landscape travel editorial and studio photography.
• Build relationships with professional photographers educators creators camera partners and industry experts to keep Lightroom grounded in real-world workflows.
• Bring hands-on photography fluency into product reviews prototypes roadmap discussions launch planning and executive conversations.
• Help teams distinguish between technically impressive ideas and experiences professionals will trust in production.
• Imagine and ship new experiences
• Partner with teams in advanced technology design and engineering to shape new capabilities into experiences photographers love and rely on.
• Define how AI agents and automation should show up in Lightroom to save time improve quality reduce repetitive work and expand creative possibility.
• Balance innovation with quality performance reliability transparency and user
• control.
• Drive clarity and alignment across cross-functional teams strategic forums planning cycles and executive discussions.
• Ground decisions in insight
• Stay close to the tools services communities and workflows professional photographers use today.
• Develop a strong point of view on where Lightroom should lead where it should partner and how we can exceed expectations of our most advanced customers.
• Connect customer insight product quality adoption retention monetization and competitive differentiation into precisely structured product recommendations.

What Youll Need to Succeed

• Proven experience as a senior product leader who has defined strategy and shipped high-impact products ideally for creative media professional technical or workflow-intensive customers.
• Deep understanding of professional photography workflows including speed quality consistencyclient expectations high-volume production and creative control.
• Strong product taste with the ability to evaluate whether an experience meets the bar forprofessional use.
• Experience turning ambiguous customer needs emerging technology and business goals into well-defined product strategy tradeoffs and shipped outcomes.
• Experience partnering deeply with research design engineering and product marketing to deliver customer-facing products at scale.
• Experience with AI automation machine learning generative AI or agentic experiences holdinga clear stance on trust control quality and user value.
• Executive-level storytelling and influence especially in senior IC roles where impact dependson alignment rather than direct authority.
• Strong analytical judgment showing proficiency in combining usage data customer researchmarket signals competitive insight and hands-on craft expertise.
• Excellent collaboration skills high ownership and a demonstrated ability to build trust withphotographers and internal partners alike.

Strong Plus

• Over 10 years spent working professionally as a photographer specializing in one or moregenres.
• Experience teaching mentoring writing for or building community with photographers.
• Experience collaborating with camera manufacturers lens makers imaging hardware companies orother photography ecosystem partners.
• A photography portfolio shipped product examples writing talks or other work that demonstrates extensive knowledge of professional creative workflows.
  

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