Director Enterprise Brand Partnerships & Advertising Strategy

Adobe Adobe · Enterprise · San Jose, CA +3

Director of Enterprise Brand Partnerships and Advertising Strategy at Adobe, responsible for defining and executing the strategy for how Adobe's enterprise offerings are presented through advertising, media, and brand partnerships. This role involves shaping brand narrative, activating partnerships, and connecting brand investment to measurable business outcomes, with a focus on modernizing the enterprise advertising model and influencing agency partners. The role also requires identifying emerging opportunities in the evolving media landscape, including AI-driven discovery.

What you'd actually do

  1. Refine and accelerate Adobe’s global enterprise brand media and advertising strategy (“It Starts with Adobe”) across priority audiences, categories, and markets.
  2. Lead the development of premium publisher partnerships, sponsorship amplification, co-marketing activations, and high-visibility advertising programs that boost Adobe’s brand and market presence.
  3. Translate enterprise campaign priorities and narratives into coordinated advertising approaches that span brand building, thought leadership amplification, and demand creation – with a heavy focus on OOH.
  4. Develop the framework outlining Adobe’s method for evaluating, prioritizing, and activating strategic media and partnership opportunities with publishers, event organizers, platforms, and ecosystem partners.
  5. Partner with regional and digital marketing leaders to ensure global strategies are adapted thoughtfully for local market conditions, media landscapes, and audience needs.

Skills

Required

  • Deep experience in brand strategy, advertising strategy, media partnerships, integrated marketing, or B2B brand marketing
  • Strong understanding of how premium media, sponsorships, partnerships, and paid channels can work together to drive both brand impact and demand outcomes
  • Experience building integrated strategies across global and regional teams in a matrixed organization
  • Strong business judgment and the ability to prioritize investments against enterprise goals, market opportunities, and budget realities
  • Proven ability to connect upper-funnel media investment to measurable business outcomes
  • Excellent communication and storytelling skills, including comfort presenting to senior executives
  • Strong cross-functional leadership skills with the ability to influence without direct authority
  • A modern understanding of enterprise buyer behavior and the evolving media landscape, including digital, publisher, event, and partner ecosystems
  • A data-informed approach, with comfort using performance insights to build strategy and optimize investment
  • High degree of ownership, initiative, and comfort operating in ambiguity

Nice to have

  • Experience in enterprise B2B marketing, ideally in technology, SaaS, or platform businesses
  • Experience working with or leading relationships with major business, technology, or industry publishers
  • Familiarity with global enterprise campaigns, account-based marketing environments, or regionalized media planning models
  • Experience partnering with digital demand generation teams to connect brand activity to audience growth, engagement, and pipeline
  • Understanding of AI-era discovery trends, content syndication, third-party trust ecosystems, and the changing role of advertising in complex buying journeys

What the JD emphasized

  • 10 years minimum