Sr. Engineering Program Manager

## **The Challenge** The Sr. Engineering Program Manager is a leader in implementing technical, platform initiatives that span across front-end and back-end solutions. These end-to-end initiatives have tremendous impact on our web visitor experience as well as systems and processes inside Adobe. The ideal candidate possesses a strong technical program management background, has demonstrated experience leading projects, and has a well-rounded background in current digital marketing technologies and data management. ## **The Opportunity** - Manage the development and implementation process for Adobe.com products and services, focusing on cross-platform tools and services - Coordinate departmental or cross-functional teams, focused on delivering new or upgrading existing platform capabilities - Responsible for projects from initiation through delivery including planning, schedule management, risk mitigation, and coordinating adoption rollouts - Lead cross-functional activities and teams, ensuring completion of high-quality projects on time and within budget ## ## **What you’ll do** - Proactively drive program execution and associated scope, timeline, and resources with minimal guidance - Analyze scope needed to achieve program goals, assess resource requirements; lead change control - Develop detailed, complex, cross-team project or program plans that take into account all requirements, constraints, resources, and results associated with defined objectives - Aggregate, organize, and synthesize program and project information in order to communicate with extended team and management - Clearly communicate goals, roles, responsibilities, and desired program outcomes - Coordinate and run operational, project, and executive check-in meetings - Work with Product Managers and Engineering Managers to build clear roadmaps/plans for products/initiatives and maintain those roadmaps/plans, drive to reduce the critical path - Continually evaluate existing processes and procedures and drive improvements - Perform risk management: identify, analyze, respond, and control risks, resolve project-specific issues and partner concerns in a timely manner - Deliver clear status communication to project teams, partners, and leadership teams - Assist Engineering Managers and Web Managers with resource assessment and release planning - Drive tactical decisions for projects that are under your direct responsibility ## ## **What you need to succeed** - 6-9 years of program/project management experience and technical leadership, preferably with large enterprise web projects - Hands on experience with Agile & project management methodologies with confirmed leadership capabilities - Solid understanding of Web technologies, including web content management systems (preferably Adobe Experience Manager) - Knowledge and experience with Adobe Workfront, JIRA, SharePoint, Wiki, and AI tools - Excellent business partner management and presentation skills ## ## **Desired Traits** - Driver – Take charge. Get things done. Proven track record in operating effectively and autonomously - Organized – A planner who brings order and resolve to a fast-paced environment with matrixed organizations - Articulate – Ability to work well with both technical and non-technical individuals up and down the org, capable of absorbing large amounts of information and the ability to distill it down to the essentials - Quality – Attention to detail and a consistent record of successfully delivering complex global projects - Flexible – Ability to juggle several projects and shift priorities as needed - Creative – Exhibiting an innovative, forward-thinking approach to problem-solving - Inquisitive – High degree of curiosity. Thinks critically and asks pertinent questions to learn the business, technology, products, and processes. - Adaptivity – Ability to navigate and deliver successfully amid ambiguity - High EQ – Ability to stay calm and collected, focus on solving problems. Strong communic…