Business Operations Lead

Adobe Adobe · Enterprise · Lehi, UT +3

This role is for a Business Operations Lead within Adobe's Ultimate Success team, focusing on strategic accounts. The lead will be the operational backbone for senior leadership, driving alignment, governance, and performance visibility across strategy, data, programs, and delivery. They will define and own the operating model for the Signature Program, lead steering committees, and provide executive-ready insights. The role also involves driving strategic initiatives to measurable outcomes and aligning resources to business impact. While the role mentions improving workflows and adoption of AI and tooling, and there are AI use guidelines for interviews, the core responsibilities are operational and product-focused, not directly building or researching AI/ML models.

What you'd actually do

  1. Define, document, and continuously improve how the Signature Program operates (cadence, metrics, governance).
  2. Guide steering committees and executive governance forums with clear objectives and outcomes.
  3. Drive requirements for decision-ready dashboards and work management systems
  4. Own tracking and inspection of critical Signature initiatives.
  5. Oversee staffing, capacity, and delivery planning for the segment.

Skills

Required

  • Business Operations
  • Program Management
  • Strategic Planning
  • Data Analysis
  • Executive Communication
  • Cross-functional Collaboration
  • Risk Management
  • Decision Making
  • Workflow Improvement
  • Resource Planning

Nice to have

  • AI and tooling adoption

What the JD emphasized

  • operational backbone
  • decision enabler
  • senior leadership (Director+)
  • alignment, governance, and performance visibility
  • operating model
  • program health
  • disciplined execution
  • steering committees and executive forums
  • framing decisions
  • driving closure
  • measurable outcomes
  • structure to complexity
  • proactively surface risks and tradeoffs
  • leadership effectiveness
  • reducing ambiguity
  • preventing surprises
  • ensuring follow-through
  • single source of truth
  • cross-functional collaborators
  • agreed operating rhythms and commitments
  • clear objectives and outcomes
  • decisions, options, tradeoffs, and implications
  • decision logs
  • execution plans
  • decision-ready dashboards
  • work management systems
  • weekly summaries, priorities and QBRs
  • clear narratives
  • risks, opportunities, and recommended actions
  • Reconcile conflicting inputs
  • single, trusted view of reality
  • critical Signature initiatives
  • measurable value, not just activity
  • workflows and adoption of AI and tooling
  • efficiency and clarity
  • staffing, capacity, and delivery planning
  • Finance
  • headcount, travel, events, and contractor spend
  • resource and investment decisions
  • retention risk and revenue impact
  • critical customer programs
  • lack of clarity, alignment, or follow-through