Program Manager - Employee & Workplace Experience

Adobe Adobe · Enterprise · San Jose, CA +3

Program Manager for Employee & Workplace Experience Transformation at Adobe. This role focuses on managing large-scale, cross-functional initiatives to modernize HR and Workplace services, improve employee support, and drive measurable business outcomes. Responsibilities include end-to-end program delivery, execution, cross-functional coordination, portfolio support, change management, and continuous improvement. The role requires strong program management fundamentals, experience with ambiguity, and excellent communication skills. Familiarity with agile ways of working and HR/operations tools is a plus. The company mentions AI fluency as a learning strategy.

What you'd actually do

  1. Support end-to-end delivery of transformation initiatives and special projects—helping teams establish clear scope, plans, milestones, risks, dependencies, and success measures.
  2. Drive program operating cadence (project plans, action tracking, decision logs, RAID, and status reporting) to ensure progress, remove blockers, and maintain momentum across workstreams.
  3. Partner with global and regional Employee Experience teams, IT, Legal, Finance, and other collaborators to align on goals, timelines, and deliverables—ensuring smooth execution across geographies.
  4. Contribute to portfolio visibility by supporting intake, prioritization discussions, resourcing conversations, and ongoing progress tracking for the transformation roadmap.
  5. Help build and coordinate change, communication, and training plans that enable adoption of new services, processes, and tools. Support learning strategies that build new capabilities and ways of working (including AI fluency).

Skills

Required

  • 6-10 years of experience in program management, business operations, consulting, or related roles in a global, matrixed organization.
  • Demonstrated ability to manage large, cross-functional initiatives with multiple stakeholders, dependencies, and timelines.
  • Strong fundamentals in program/project management, including planning, documentation, RAID management, executive status reporting, and facilitation.
  • Confidence working with ambiguity—able to break down complex problems into structured plans and drive next steps.
  • Excellent communication, organization, and stakeholder management skills; able to tailor messaging for different audiences.

Nice to have

  • familiarity with agile ways of working is a plus
  • Experience with tools such as Workday, ServiceNow, Power BI, or similar platforms is a plus.

What the JD emphasized

  • large, cross-functional initiatives