Principal Product Manager

Job description

from Adobe careers

The Opportunity

Adobe Express is one of Adobe’s most high-profile growth products. It is at the forefront of delivering Adobe’s “Creativity for All” mission by making the core technology of our industry-leading products available with no learning curve.
Creative tools are increasingly consumed through AI agents, automation platforms, and developer ecosystems rather than standalone applications. We are hiring a Principal Product Manager to lead the Adobe Express developer platform, including APIs and MCP integrations. You will define how enterprises, developers, and a growing base of power users access Express capabilities inside their own products, workflows, automation tools, and AI experiences.

You will lead the evolution of the Express API platform across pricing, onboarding, access, monetization, and developer experience. You will also help define how Adobe Express evolves into a programmable creative and productivity platform.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Define the strategy for Adobe Express APIs, MCP, and enterprise integrations
• Drive adoption and evolution of the Express API platform
• Support developers and enterprises building custom creative workflows, agents, and automation infrastructure with Express
• Partner with customers and developers on authentication, onboarding, governance, and integration patterns
• Work across engineering, GTM, design, and developer experience teams to deliver APIs and tooling that are reliable and easy to adopt
• Align with PMs leading assistant and chat integrations on shared capabilities and platform direction
• Use customer and adoption insights to guide roadmap priorities and investment decisions
• Influence the future of Adobe’s developer ecosystem across automation and AI experiences

WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED

• 8+ years of product management experience building APIs, developer tools, platforms, or enterprise SaaS products
• Experience defining monetization, packaging, entitlement, or usage models for infrastructure or developer-facing products
• Deep familiarity with APIs, authentication, SDKs, rate limiting, automation infrastructure, and extensibility models
• You translate complex customer requirements into scalable developer-facing products and services
• Cross-functional leadership across engineering, business, design, and go-to-market organizations
• Understanding of enterprise requirements around reliability, scalability, governance, and operational controls
• Clear communication across technical and non-technical audiences on platform strategy and monetization decisions
• Deep curiosity about AI platforms, developer ecosystems, and emerging integration patterns, with a point of view on how products and product organizations should evolve alongside them

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.

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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 In New York, 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.

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California:

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Colorado:

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Massachusetts:

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