Sr. Director, Product Management - Data Platforms

The Opportunity

We are looking for a visionary Senior Director of Product Management to lead product strategy for Adobe’s enterprise Data Platforms portfolio used by more than 26K employees in every function across the company. The Data Platform is one of the most strategically important foundations powering the company’s AI and agentic future!

This is a rare, high-impact opportunity to shape the intelligent data platform that powers how data is collected, governed, activated, and turned into personalized, intelligent customer experiences across Adobe. You will define the strategy and multi-year roadmap for capabilities spanning data collection, telemetry, foundational lakehouse layers, analytics, machine learning enablement, agentic development workflows, agent consumption, personalization, and enterprise-grade AI safety.

Reporting to the Vice President of Data Platforms, this role is ideal for a product leader who thrives at the intersection of deep technical platform strategy, modern AI, and outsized business impact. You will architect a trusted, scalable, multi-cloud (Azure + AWS) data foundation that is truly agent-ready.

What You’ll Do

• Craft and champion the long-term product vision and strategy for Adobe’s Data Platforms.

• Own a bold multi-year roadmap that dramatically improves reuse, velocity, trust, and leverage across the enterprise.

• Identify highest-leverage opportunities, drive decisive prioritization, and translate complex needs into clear direction and measurable metrics.

• Partner closely with engineering and architecture leaders to define direction, build prototypes, and ensure scalable technical design.

• Collaborate across product, engineering, analytics, and business teams to accelerate adoption and create exponential value.

• Design platform capabilities that simplify complexity and make trusted, governed data instantly accessible and actionable.

• Represent the product vision with clarity and conviction to senior leaders, balancing innovation, scale, speed, and long-term health.

• Build, lead, and develop a high-performing product management team, raising the bar on craft, technical depth, and influence.

• Define agentic software engineering capabilities that use AI agents to automate pipelines, testing, deployment, and operations.

• Lead agent-ready data access layers — including ontologies, governed catalogs, real-time context, and embedded AI safety mechanisms — so agents can responsibly act on trusted data at scale.

What You Need to Succeed

• 10+ years of experience managing products in cloud-native data platforms, AI/ML platforms, analytics, or agentic AI systems is required. You must have deep exposure to modern lakehouse architectures like Databricks on Azure and AWS or equivalent.

• Hands-on expertise in modern data platform use cases, data engineering, AI development, real-time systems, and agentic practices.

• Proven experience with AI data governance (catalogs, ontologies, lineage, access control, and responsible AI safety frameworks).

• Strong understanding of modern platform architecture: telemetry, pipelines, observability, metadata, experimentation, agent orchestration, scalable multi-cloud infrastructure, and responsible AI principles.

• A track record of defining and scaling complex technical platforms that deliver meaningful business impact.

• Deep engineering partnership experience on architecture, prototypes, and fast-paced technical development.

• Exceptional executive communication and stakeholder management skills.

• Experience building and developing high-performing product teams and leaders.

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent; advanced technical education is a plus.

Why This Role Matters

Adobe’s future is powered by data that fuels better decisions, smarter systems, autonomous agentic experiences, and breakthrough customer creativity. This role sits at the center of that transformation. If you’re motivated by foundational platform leadership and the chance to shape how trusted data powers the next generation of intelligent, safe, and personalized experiences at Adobe, this is your opportunity to have truly outsized impact.

About Adobe

Adobe empowers everyone to create through innovative platforms and tools that unleash creativity, productivity and personalized customer experiences. Adobe’s industry-leading offerings including Adobe Acrobat Studio, Adobe Express, Adobe Firefly, Creative Cloud, Adobe Experience Platform, Adobe Experience Manager, and GenStudio enable people and businesses to turn ideas into impact, powered by AI and driven by human ingenuity.

Our 30,000+ employees worldwide are creating the future and raising the bar as we drive the next decade of growth. We’re on a mission to hire the very best and believe in creating a company culture where all employees are empowered to make an impact. At Adobe, we believe that great ideas can come from anywhere in the organization. The next big idea could be yours. 

Let’s Adobe together

At Adobe, we believe in creating a company culture where all employees are empowered to make an impact. Learn more about Adobe life, including our 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.

Adobe is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on gender, race or color, ethnicity or national origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic. Learn more.

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Our interviews are designed to reflect your own skills and thinking. The use of AI or recording tools during live interviews is not permitted unless explicitly invited by the interviewer or approved in advance as part of a reasonable accommodation. If these tools are used inappropriately or in a way that misrepresents your work, your application may not move forward in the process.

At Adobe, we empower employees to innovate with AI — and we look for candidates eager to do the same. As part of the hiring experience, we provide clear guidance on where AI is encouraged during the process and where it’s restricted during live interviews. See how we think about AI in the hiring experience.

 

Expected Pay Range:

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 $190,400 -- $397,250 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 $255,500 - $397,250


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In addition, certain roles may be eligible for long-term incentives in the form of a new hire equity award.

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California:

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Colorado:

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Massachusetts:

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