Director, Corporate Partnerships

Adobe Adobe · Enterprise · San Francisco, CA +3

This role is for a Director of Corporate Partnerships at Adobe, focusing on strategic product and technology partnerships to drive growth and market share expansion for Adobe's Digital Media business. The role involves sourcing, evaluating, negotiating, and implementing partnership deals, acting as a trusted advisor, and developing strategic partnership frameworks. While the company mentions AI in its product offerings (Adobe Firefly, GenStudio) and hiring process, this specific role is in corporate partnerships and business development, not directly building or shipping AI models or systems.

What you'd actually do

  1. Become deeply knowledgeable about Adobe's Digital Media business, including business models, customer segmentation, customer workflows, product offerings, competitors, marketing, and go-to-market (GTM).
  2. Become a trusted advisor to internal collaborators and leadership. Show highly effective partner management and business development skills. Provide strategic recommendations that address critical business goals.
  3. Act as a highly effective business development and strategy resource to the applicable Adobe business unit who builds strategic partnership frameworks that achieve key business objectives. Set priorities, optimize integrations, and develop and implement strategies for growth
  4. Identify and evaluate product and marketing levers to influence partnership growth, and develop models to drive success aligned to broader business goals

Skills

Required

  • Business development
  • Partner management
  • Product strategy
  • Cross-functional collaboration
  • Strategic thinking
  • Problem-solving
  • Leadership
  • Communication

Nice to have

  • MBA or equivalent experience
  • Deep knowledge of Adobe's Digital Media business

What the JD emphasized

  • 15 years of cross-functional experience in roles such as business development, partner management, and product
  • A consistent record of building high-trust relationships
  • Creativity to strategically problem solve, comfort with ambiguity, and initiative to incessantly seek opportunities that materially impact the business
  • A data-driven approach to developing partnership strategy with a passion for operational excellence
  • Strong leadership presence and exceptional communication skills for all levels, both verbal and written