Principal Engineering Program Manager

$258,700 - $258,700/Yr

Adobe - San Jose, CA

Full-time - Principal

San Jose, CA

Publishing Industries

About the position

The Principal Engineering Program Manager at Adobe will lead complex programs within the Adobe-on-Adobe Program, collaborating with Customer Engineering to track priorities and drive agile product development. This role requires a strong technical background, the ability to build data dashboards, and effective leadership skills to guide teams through change. The position emphasizes customer-centricity, data-driven decision-making, and high-quality software delivery, making it crucial for shaping the success of Adobe's DX AEP & Apps.

Responsibilities

• Manage global, cross-functional teams, develop program plans, allocate resources, document and resolve risks/issues.
• Maintain a deep, technical end-to-end understanding of the solution being built, its upstream and downstream dependencies and impacts, and critical changes needed to support the initiative.
• Build dashboards in Jira to optimally lead enhancements, defects and dependencies. Integrate with PowerBI to build visualizations with actionable data insights.
• Maintain a central repository for operational cadence updates.
• Build and release status reports including executive-level presentations that can be consumed at various levels of the organization.
• Actively engage and influence people at all levels: from front-line team members to Senior Leaders, connecting continuously to partners throughout the organization.
• Build communications, templates and standards to effectively lead and inspire change management processes and communications.
• Coordinate multiple concurrent programs, varying in size/scope/complexity, spanning across several different teams and organizations.
• Effectively communicate with technical and non-technical team members and provide inputs to architecture decisions.

Requirements

• Masters of equivalent experience in computer science or engineering strongly preferred.
• 10+ years of technical program management experience, leading cross-functional teams to deliver high quality products.
• Experience in leading complex programs and initiatives using Jira, building dashboards in PowerBI and leading content in Confluence.
• Strong PowerBI and visualization experience in Tableau needed with experience in building reports for Executives.
• Motivated, passionate about customer experience, execution oriented high-performance individual with strong process and metric focus.
• Excellent verbal, presentation, and written communication skills with proven experience in Change Management.
• Possess solid understanding about software development life cycle including build processes, testing and code reviews.
• Strong analytical thinking with a track record of delivering projects in a fast-paced environment, use metrics and data to come up with recommendations and drive decisions.
• Strong Social skills, leadership skills to work in a diverse workplace. Meticulously organized, focused, and detailed work ethic.
• Develop plans, build templates, and provide updates for quarterly-based delivery roadmaps.
• Self-motivated, curious and ability to resolve issues by understanding business, product, and technical interplay.
• PMP Certified or SAFE Certified or PROSCI certified Change Management professional preferred.

Nice-to-haves

• PMP Certified
• SAFE Certified
• PROSCI certified Change Management professional

Benefits

• Competitive salary based on experience and location
• Short-term incentives in the form of the Annual Incentive Plan (AIP)
• Long-term incentives in the form of a new hire equity award