The opportunityWe are looking for a Senior Design Program Manager to join Adobe Design in support of one of the most consequential bets the company is making. You will be embedded in a horizontal agentic experience team working across Adobe, with a dotted line to the Director of Product Design for Agentic, helping translate complex, cross-platform design work into programs that can actually move.
This team is building the foundations for how AI assistants and agentic systems come together across Adobe's product portfolio. It has launched. Now it needs operational infrastructure to scale. You will build it.
What you'll doAgentic Experience Operations- Build and own the operational infrastructure for a horizontal agentic experience team, including rituals, documentation standards, intake processes, and cross-team coordination frameworks
- Manage cross-platform programs spanning multiple Adobe product teams, tracking dependencies, surfacing blockers, and keeping work moving across organizational boundaries
- Create visibility into the team's work for design, product, and engineering leadership across Adobe, establishing reporting cadences and communication structures that don't yet exist
- Partner with the Director of Product Design and design leads to translate ambiguous early-stage agentic work into structured programs with clear owners, milestones, and success criteria
- Identify and close coordination gaps between platform teams, ensuring agentic experience work is sequenced and integrated effectively across Adobe's product ecosystem
- Apply AI tooling to program management workflows to improve how the team tracks, reports, and communicates its work
Portfolio Operations- Support portfolio-level rituals and reviews across a multi-team design organization, including scheduling, facilitation, documentation, and follow-through
- Maintain systems for tracking and reporting on design work at the portfolio level, including project status, priorities, and key decisions
- Keep cross-platform design decisions documented and communicated consistently across teams
- Coordinate between design, product, engineering, and research to ensure the right people have the right information at the right time
What you need to succeed- 5+ years of experience in design operations or program management within a design and technology environment
- Experience standing up operational processes in a team or org that had none, you are comfortable building before there is a clear path
- Proven ability to manage programs that span multiple teams, platforms, or systems with no single owner and competing priorities
- Working understanding of AI and agentic systems, enough to navigate technical conversations, ask the right questions, and make design work legible to non-design stakeholders
- Strong instincts for creating just enough structure to move work forward without over-engineering or slowing teams down
- Demonstrated ability to work horizontally across a large organization, earning trust and building alignment with teams that operate independently
- Clear, concise written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to make complex multi-threaded work legible to senior leadership
- Comfort operating in environments where the product, the team, and the process are all evolving at the same time
- Familiarity with AI tools and genuine curiosity about applying them to design or program management workflows
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
About Adobe DesignAdobe Design is the multidisciplinary, global organization behind Adobe experiences. Our full-stack team includes design researchers, design engineers, experience designers, brand designers, content strategists, and program managers dedicated to delivering exceptional experiences for Adobe users.
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 $124,300 -- $234,600 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 $162,000 - $234,600
At Adobe, for sales roles starting salaries are expressed as total target compensation (TTC = base + commission), and short-term incentives are in the form of sales commission plans. Non-sales roles starting salaries are expressed as base salary and short-term incentives are in the form of the Annual Incentive Plan (AIP).
In addition, certain roles may be eligible for long-term incentives in the form of a new hire equity award.
