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, managing the software product development lifecycle using agile techniques, and driving process improvements. The role leverages data and automation to improve team efficiency and effectiveness, with a focus on shipping AI-powered products.

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 skills
  • presentation skills
  • written communication skills
  • autonomy
  • multitasking

Nice to have

  • Leverage data to drive key decisions
  • Leverage automation wherever possible for the recurring tasks
  • Evaluate existing processes and procedures
  • Make recommendations and drives process improvement
  • adoption of best practices

What the JD emphasized

  • high degree of autonomy
  • determined
  • 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
  • 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
  • operate in ambiguous situations while bringing clarity
  • critical paths and dependencies
  • competing projects or tasks independently