Manager, Design Ops Program Management

Our Company
Changing the world through digital experiences is what Adobe’s all about. We give everyone—from emerging artists to global brands—everything they need to design and deliver exceptional digital experiences! We’re passionate about empowering people to create beautiful and powerful images, videos, and apps, and transform how companies interact with customers across every screen. 
We’re on a mission to hire the very best and are committed to creating exceptional employee experiences where everyone is respected and has access to equal opportunity. We realize that new ideas can come from everywhere in the organization, and we know the next big idea could be yours!

The opportunity

If you are enthusiastic about solving big design challenges, and guiding the team that takes on these challenges, this is an opportunity to work with a truly outstanding team on some exciting projects at Adobe! 

Adobe Design is seeking a manager to join the Design Operations team in India. In this role, you will manage a group of design program managers that focus broadly across the Creative Cloud business and collaborate with senior design leadership and partners across the entire development process. 

You will also help lead overall business operations for a 100+ sized design team and directly impact the hiring experience and foster community and growth of the Adobe India Design organization. In this role, you will be a part of a lively, creative organization based out of our India offices either in Noida or Bangalore.

What you’ll do

• Elevate and enable a highly effective UX design organization through coaching and facilitating high-caliber problem-solving. 

• Connect dots and diplomatically navigate program challenges that fall outside of the traditional product design space.

• Coach and mentor program managers. Help us attract talent to the team, hire, grow, retain, and promote program managers. 

• Advocate for design-led-product development and exemplify the responsibility to speak up and represent when design has a “seat at the table”.

• Collaborate with design leaders, program managers, and a wide range of cross functional teams to manage overall team operations for a growing design organization. 

What you need to succeed

• 4+ years of leadership and people management experience with a history of operational excellence 

• Experience working in teams with many moving parts and matrixed organizations

• Working directly with product leadership and executives on ambiguous problems and crafting big picture strategies driven by design

• Experience working with Agile Engineering teams

• The ability to think big picture about staffing, process and scale

• A proven track record of launching products that delight, innovate and scale

• Willingness and ability to add to the creative spirit of Adobe Design and the company

• Ability to define mechanisms and processes to deliver quality product experiences in an effective, predictable way

How to Apply

To be considered for this role, please submit your resume and a cover letter. We’d especially like to see strong systems-thinking and examples of process and evolution of work.

About Adobe Design

Adobe Design creates tools that amplify the world’s ability to create and communicate. We’re a global team of designers, researchers, prototypers, content strategists, program managers, and more who work across Adobe’s three product lines: Creative Cloud, Document Cloud, and Experience Cloud.
 

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