Senior Partner Marketing Manager

Job description

The Opportunity

Adobe is hiring an experienced Senior Partner Marketing Manager to manage marketing relationships with key India and global alliance partners. The role involves completing joint strategic partner marketing plans. This individual contributor role requires experience in managing collaborators, building consensus, project management, co-marketing, and cross-functional marketing!

What You'll Do

• Build and own joint marketing plans with partners to drive pipeline creation and progression across channels (events, content, thought leadership, social, etc.)

• Manage partner marketing budgets, including investment planning, allocation, and performance evaluation

• Identify and drive strategic engagement opportunities with senior leadership (internal and customer-facing)

• Partner with regional and in-country teams to deliver campaigns and coordinate partner participation in Adobe flagship and third-party events

• Collaborate cross-functionally with Marketing, PR/AR, Partner Sales, Product, Enablement, and Operations to execute and optimise joint marketing initiatives

• Track and report on performance metrics, providing insights through dashboards and regular updates

• Support key Adobe announcements and amplify partner collaboration opportunities

• Develop customer success stories and joint value propositions to showcase partnership impact

What You'll Need to Succeed

• 15+ years’ experience in enterprise marketing within the tech industry, including 7+ years in partner marketing

• Strategic thinker and problem solver with strong written and verbal communication skills

• Experience managing budgets, including tracking utilisation, outcomes, and compliance

• Proven ability to navigate complex organisational structures and collaborate effectively across multiple stakeholders

• Comfortable operating in fast-paced, high-pressure environments and through ambiguity or change

• Ability to design and implement scalable programs quickly and effectively

• Experience partnering with sales, partnerships, and marketing teams in customer-facing environments

• Strong understanding of B2B marketing metrics, performance measurement, and data-driven decision making

• Familiarity with AI tools is an advantage

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience required; postgraduate qualification is a plus

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.

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