Director, Product Strategy & Operations

The Opportunity

Creative Product Group is seeking a strategic Director of Strategy & Operations who is driven by clear achievements. This role sits at the center of a portfolio of AI-powered creative products — including Adobe Firefly, Photoshop, Premiere Pro, and more — andis responsible forbuilding the operating infrastructure that connects strategy to execution across a large, multi-product engineering and product organization.

In this role, you will work in close partnership with the Sr Director of CPG S&O — owning distinct, high-priority workstreams while collectively building the operating infrastructure for one of Adobe's most strategically important product organizations. This is not a support role; it is a senior leadership position with real ownership, executive visibility, and a mandate to build.

You will partner closely with Product, Engineering, Finance, Sales, Marketing, and Executive Leadership to translatestrategy intooperatingrhythms, driving accountability across the leadership team, and ensuring that resources are deployed against the highest priorities.

Whatyou'lldo

Design, Implement, and Scale the Operating Model

• Design and own the organization's operating cadence: QBRs, annual planning cycles, leadership syncs, and business reviews

• Build andmaintainsystems, processes, and tools that enable the organization tooperateat scale — from goal tracking and decision frameworks to cross-functional dependency management

• Define decision rights, critical issue paths, and accountability mechanisms; standardize planning artifacts, critical metric dashboards, and reporting structures

• Own objectives and key results development and accountability across the organization —establishingclear ownership, defining measurable outcomes, and ensuring consistent progress tracking

• Own the operating forums and cadences for reviewing critical metric performance, ensuring leadership alignment on business health and progress against strategic goals

• Lead the rollout of a shared operating model across multiple product areas — starting with the highest-priority product and expanding as the model proves out

• Partner with embedded PGM andBizOpsleads to drive adoption of shared frameworks while adapting for team-specific needs

• Build a community of practice across the portfolio that creates coordination and consistency without centralizing control

Drive Cross-Functional Execution Excellence

• Align Product, Engineering, Design, and GTMaroundsharedobjectivesand measurable outcomes.

• Ensure roadmap commitments are realistic, capacity-aligned, and financially justified.

• Increase transparency and predictability across product development cycles.

• Identifyoperational inefficiencies and implement process improvements to improve velocity and output quality.

• Improve cross-functional handoffs and reduceexecutionfriction.

• Establish performance management mechanisms that surface risks early and enable course correction.

Lead with Accountability

• Build and lead a high-performing product strategy and business operations team.

• Set clear performance expectations and measurableobjectivesfor the team.

• Foster a culture of href="https://www.adobe.com/adobe-for-all.html#:~:text=and%20culture.-,Our%20company%20values.,-As%20we%20look">values and culture, focus on people, purpose and community, Adobe for All, comprehensive benefits programs, the stories we tell, the customers we serve, and how you can help us advance our mission of empowering everyone to create.

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  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 position is $169,700 -- $323,350 annually. Pay within this range varies by work location and may also depend on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the job location during the hiring process. In California, the pay range for this position is $223,300 - $323,350

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