Engineering Program Management

Adobe Adobe · Enterprise · Noida, India

This role is for an Engineering Program Manager within Adobe's Firefly organization, focusing on the development and release of Gen AI technologies and products. The role requires managing project schedules, dependencies, and cross-functional teams to ensure successful product delivery. While the role operates within an AI-focused organization and requires understanding of the Gen AI tech stack, the core responsibilities are program management, process improvement, and coordination, rather than direct AI/ML model development or research.

What you'd actually do

  1. Coordinate all aspects of the business for development and release of technologies, products, features & functions in Firefly organisation.
  2. Build the project schedule, including putting together the framework and identifying dependencies—negotiating with 3rd parties/internal teams.
  3. Understand and assess critical paths and dependencies for delivering and shipping products / services and facilitate discussions between product/client teams, product management and engineering.
  4. Effectively negotiate, persuade and motivate extended project teams & senior management across BUs, provide justifiable proposals and recommendations, and clearly outline courses of action to follow.
  5. Assess future challenges on projects and initiatives and mobilize immediate and extended team members to take action, proactively addressing issues.

Skills

Required

  • 3-6 years of experience
  • Excellent verbal, presentation, and written communication skills
  • Good understanding of Gen AI tech stack
  • Ability to tie team objectives back to the broader organizational objectives and goals
  • Good knowledge of a software product development lifecycle
  • Knowledge of agile development techniques and project management tools
  • Strong conflict resolution and negotiation skills
  • Ability to communicate in a geographically distributed environment with diverse collaborators
  • Ability to operate in ambiguous situations while bringing clarity

Nice to have

  • high degree of autonomy
  • determined
  • go-getter
  • ability to multitask and stay on top of a lot of things simultaneously
  • Vibe coding and automating PgM workflows
  • Leads by example
  • Sets high standards & communicates expectations of high achievement to others
  • Establishes credibility with peers and senior managers
  • driving force for change across the organization
  • Leverage data to drive key decisions and changes in the team
  • Leverage automation wherever possible for the recurring tasks
  • Evaluate existing processes and procedures
  • Make recommendations and drives process improvement and adoption of best practices (processes, tools, etc) to improve team efficiency and effectiveness

What the JD emphasized

  • Gen AI tech stack
  • high degree of autonomy
  • go-getter
  • multitask
  • stay on top of a lot of things simultaneously
  • Vibe coding and automating PgM workflows
  • conflict resolution
  • negotiation skills
  • operate in ambiguous situations while bringing clarity
  • drive process improvement and adoption of best practices