Director, Strategy & Business Operations, Business Partnering & Talent

Adobe Adobe · Enterprise · San Jose, CA

Director, Strategy & Business Operations, Business Partnering & Talent at Adobe. This role focuses on shaping and driving key initiatives, operating mechanisms, and processes for the Employee Experience and Talent organization. Responsibilities include building operational cadence, managing a team, serving as a thought partner to senior leaders, and driving programmatic support for key initiatives. Requires strong business insight, strategic program management skills, and experience in global, cross-functional environments.

What you'd actually do

  1. Build and lead the operational cadence for running the BPT business, drive accountability, and continuous process improvement
  2. Work with the cross-Employee Experience (EX) Business Operations team to establish and drive initiatives across several time horizons (i.e. weekly, quarterly, annually & and multi-year/strategic-planning)
  3. Business Performance: Drive cadence for prep and reviews for quarterly progress towards achievements, including quarterly communication updates, to multiple levels within the organization.
  4. Lead and manage a team of three direct reports
  5. Serve as thought partner, advising and influencing points of view of key senior partners

Skills

Required

  • 10+ years of shown experience in strategic operational roles, partnering directly with senior leaders
  • BA or BS degree in a related field
  • Excellent communication skills, written, verbal and through tools like PowerPoint
  • Outstanding ability to handle competing priorities across complex operations
  • Critical thinking skills and ability to take sizable problems and break them into small meaningful pieces as well as being able to use data to derive insights from metrics
  • Comfort with navigating ambiguity, a can-do attitude and attention to operational details
  • Ability to create relationships and partnerships (internal and external) at all levels of the organization, exhibit strong leadership and influencing skills, and design, implement, and lead change management initiatives
  • Ability to learn, grow and tackle expanded duties as business needs evolve
  • Excellent meeting design and facilitation skills
  • Superb judgment and integrity, including excellent decision-making skills and a bias for action

Nice to have

  • HR experience is a plus

What the JD emphasized

  • critical initiatives
  • scale strategic operations
  • transformational change agent
  • exceptional strategic program management skills
  • prior leadership experience in global, cross-functional, and collaborative environments
  • shown experience in strategic operational roles, partnering directly with senior leaders
  • Outstanding ability to handle competing priorities across complex operations
  • Critical thinking skills
  • Ability to create relationships and partnerships (internal and external) at all levels of the organization
  • exhibit strong leadership and influencing skills
  • design, implement, and lead change management initiatives