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  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.

  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!
  
  Opportunity
  
  We're looking for an expert technical product manager to lead Photoshop's foundational architecture and performance strategy. This is a pivotal role responsible for evolving the core technologies that power Photoshop's speed, stability, and future scalability across platforms.
  
  You'll drive major efforts to modernize our rendering and compute architecture, migrate legacy systems to more scalable platforms, and accelerate performance through GPU and hardware optimization. This work touches nearly every part of Photoshop, from canvas rendering to feature responsiveness to long-term cross-platform consistency.
  
  This is a principal-level individual contributor role with the potential to grow a team in the future.
  
  What You'll Do
  
  

  • Own the vision and strategy for Photoshop's foundational platform, ensuring our core architecture supports world-class performance, reliability, and innovation.
  • Lead execution of technical modernization efforts, rebuilding or migrating core systems to be more scalable, maintainable, and performant across surfaces.
  • Partner deeply with engineering, acting as the connective tissue between architectural work and customer value.
  • Define success metrics and prioritize work based on strategic impact, engineering effort, and customer experience improvements.
  • Build alignment across teams and functions, partnering with design, engineering, research, and other PMs to drive platform-wide improvements.
    
    

  What We're Looking For
  
  

  • 8–12+ years of product management experience, with at least 3–5 years passionate about technical platforms, performance, or infrastructure.
  • Experience as a Principal PM or Director-level IC, driving complex architectural initiatives in large-scale products.
  • Strong technical proficiency. Able to participate in architecture discussions, understand engineering tradeoffs, and communicate technical plans clearly.
  • Demonstrated success in modernizing legacy systems, driving platform transitions, or improving performance at scale.
  • Excellent cross-functional leadership and communication skills.
  • Experience with Photoshop or similar imaging tools. You understand how creative professionals work and care deeply about the performance and reliability of visual editing experiences.
  • Experience with creative tools, performance-critical applications, or C++-based platforms is a strong plus.
  • A passion for elegant, scalable systems and the user experiences they enable.
    
    

  Why This Role Matters
  
  Photoshop is one of the most iconic and technically sophisticated creative applications in the world. As we evolve it for new devices, surfaces, and generations of creatives, its architectural foundation must evolve too. This role ensures Photoshop stays fast, modern, and future-ready.
  
  You'll report to the Senior Director of Product Management for Photoshop and partner closely with senior engineering leaders. You'll craft the core of what makes Photoshop great, now and for the next decade!
  
  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 positionis $176,900 -- $321,700 annually. Paywithin this range varies by work locationand 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.
  
  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.
  
  State-Specific Notices:
  
  California:
  
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  Adobe will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with state and local laws and “fair chance” ordinances.
  
  Colorado:
  
  Application Window Notice
  
  If this role is open to hiring in Colorado (as listed on the job posting), the application window will remain open until at least the date and time stated above in Pacific Time, in compliance with Colorado pay transparency regulations. If this role does not have Colorado listed as a hiring location, no specific application window applies, and the posting may close at any time based on hiring needs.
  
  Massachusetts:
  
  Massachusetts Legal Notice
  
  It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.
  
  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 applicable characteristics protected by law. Learn more about our vision here.
  
  Adobe aims to make Adobe.com accessible to any and all users. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation to navigate our website or complete the application process, email ...@adobe.com or call (408) ###-####.
  

  Seniority level

  • Seniority level

    Mid-Senior level

  Employment type

  • Employment type

    Full-time

  Job function

  • Job function

    Product Management and Marketing

  • Industries

    Advertising Services, IT Services and IT Consulting, and Software Development

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