Scaled Program Lead

The Opportunity 

Adobe’s Unified Platform is operating at significant scale: hundreds of concurrent programs, thousands of interdependent work items, and globally distributed product, program, user experience, and technical groups. Individual Program Managers focus on execution within their portfolios. Meanwhile, the organization requires a system-wide program oversight capability to identify risks earlier, improve predictability, and evolve delivery continuously.  

This high-leverage role of Scaled Program Management Lead was developed to meet that need. It builds on the core expectations of a Lead Program Manager—strong execution, cross‑functional leadership, and delivery accountability—while extending them across the platform. Rather than owning a bounded portfolio, this role establishes the mechanisms, data, and operating model required to manage world-class delivery at scale. 

This is an individual contributor role for a highly experienced, “six-sigma-type” program leader. The candidate must understand how software is built and delivered. They will collaborate closely with development teams. They will then transform those insights into scalable systems and approaches for the wider organization.  

At the scale of our platform, small improvements in focus, predictability, and flow translate into outsized impact. This role exists to institutionalize those improvements—to make data‑driven, scalable delivery part of how the platform operates every day, not a one‑off effort. This approach ensures that how we work evolves as fast as what we build.