Engineering Program Manager

Adobe Adobe · Enterprise · Noida, India

Engineering Program Manager at Adobe's Firefly organization, responsible for coordinating the development and release of technologies, products, features, and functions. The role requires understanding the Gen AI tech stack, leading projects through the software development lifecycle using agile methodologies, managing dependencies, and driving process improvements. While the role operates within an AI-focused organization (Firefly), its core responsibilities are program management, not 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

  • Gen AI tech stack
  • software product development lifecycle
  • agile development techniques
  • project management tools
  • conflict resolution
  • negotiation skills
  • communication in a geographically distributed environment
  • operating in ambiguous situations

Nice to have

  • Excellent verbal, presentation, and written communication skills
  • Leads by example
  • Sets high standards & communicates expectations of high achievement to others
  • 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

What the JD emphasized

  • high degree of autonomy
  • go-getter
  • multitask
  • stay on top of a lot of things simultaneously
  • Establishes credibility with peers and senior managers
  • driving force for change across the organization
  • Ability to tie team objectives back to the broader organizational objectives and goals
  • operate in ambiguous situations while bringing clarity
  • Assess future challenges on projects and initiatives
  • mobilize immediate and extended team members to take action
  • proactively addressing issues
  • Manage multiple competing projects or tasks independently
  • effectively balancing work between critical short term issues with longer term strategic goals