Principal Product Manager

Principal Product Manager Location: San Jose The Opportunity AI-powered Agentic Search, Recommendations and Suggestions are core part of Adobe’s Cloud offering. Adobe Cloud enables customers to build and generate digital content, and Digital experiences. The Search, Discovery, and Content AI Team drives customer success for Adobe Express, Creative Cloud, and Document Cloud. Creative professionals and novice users need the quick discovery of digital assets from brushes to colors, images, videos, and beyond. They also need AI-powered assistance to discover the ingredients needed to complete their creative journey at scale. How can you participate? We focus on developing innovative AI-powered search, recommendations, and assistive experiences using generative AI technologies across all modalities, including text, image, and videos, and create industry-leading experiences to improve creative efficiency for creators, marketers, and designers. We’re seeking a highly motivated Principal Product Manager with extensive experience leading product development and strategy, particularly in innovative technologies. This role offers the chance to drive significant impact within a dynamic, fast-paced environment at a world-class company. Come join us! What you’ll do You will be responsible for the planning and execution throughout the lifecycle of product and features development, including: Drive the Product vision for next-generation capabilities that brings search, recommendation and agentic experiences together and map out the path to Integrating those across Adobe web, mobile and desktop products. You will work with global product, data science and engineering teams to establish requirements, plan and prioritize work. Drive alignment and communication with partners with growing and conflicting demands. Develop and drive the strategy for defining success criteria, including critical metrics that measures customer success and business impact. You will ensure that technology and experiences we enable, adhere to all applicable compliance, privacy, legal, AI Ethics and security requirements. Work with partners as necessary to communicate these requirements. Required Skills Proven technical product management leadership experience of 7+ years, including working with highly diverse and global teams. Track record of delivering AI/ML powered, data-driven products and cloud scale services that are widely adopted with large customer bases 5+ years of experience with search technologies, Information retrieval, search relevancy, recommendations, RAG and/or agentic search experience Excellent verbal, presentation, and written communication skills as you'll be interacting across product and engineering leaders at various levels Ability to lead in an environment of ambiguity with diverse partners and independently drive initiatives end-to-end Articulate and persuasive while able to listen and incorporate the perspectives of others Strong analytical, interpersonal, and problem-solving skills to be able to coordinate complicated projects BS or MS or equivalent experience in Computer Science or background in a strong scientific subject area 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. Adobe aims to make our Careers website and recruiting process 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 accommodations@adobe.com or call +1 408-536-3015. AI Use Guidelines for Interviews: 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 $148,100 -- $282,100 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 $194,800 - $282,100 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: Fair Chance Ordinances Adobe will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with state and local laws and “fair chance” ordinances. 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