Senior Product Manager, Business Model Strategy

Adobe Adobe · Enterprise · San Francisco, CA +1

This role is a Senior Product Manager focused on Business Model Strategy within Adobe's CXO business. The primary responsibilities include developing and presenting monetization strategies, influencing the product roadmap, optimizing offerings through product configuration, line determination, offer structure, and pricing. The role involves cross-functional collaboration, conducting customer and market research, developing financial models to simulate customer behavior and project costs, and defining product requirements related to business model strategy. While the company mentions AI and its use in products, this specific role is focused on the business strategy and financial modeling aspects, not the direct development or deployment of AI models.

What you'd actually do

  1. Develop and present recommendations that articulate the strategy and return on investment in order to acquire and incorporate cross-functional feedback and ultimately achieve executive approval.
  2. Work cross-functionally with PMM, PM, Sales, Ops, Sales, Finance, CPQ, and many other teams.
  3. Develop and conduct qualitative customer research and complete quantitative market research including one or more of the following research methods: Build-Your-Own Conjoint, Discrete Choice Conjoint, Gabor-Granger.
  4. Support the Enterprise Sales team with product sizing, custom pricing, and licensing needs Collection, synthesis, and analysis of industry and competitor data. Perform statistical analysis on empirical data (sales, usage, etc)
  5. Develop financial models that simulate customer behavior and project costs to complete scenario analysis that estimates the impact of the proposal on market penetration, company revenues, and margin. We also ensure the smooth execution of our proposals.
  6. Define and drive product requirements for product roadmap and future releases to address customer needs related to the business model strategy Plan and coordinate operational activities required for execution. Set guidelines for direct sales, and develop sales plays, and training as appropriate. Complete post-mortems to ensure proposals are successful and/or refined.

Skills

Required

  • MBA and/or 5+ Management/Strategy Consulting experience or Pricing/Packaging strategy experience
  • Understanding of Enterprise / B2B software sales processes – pricing, deal structures, discounting methodologies
  • Ability to simplify the sophisticated, quickly define the core problem, and frame the solution approach
  • Attention to detail
  • Excellent deck-writing, communicating, and upward-influencing skills
  • Strong EQ, emotional maturity
  • Experience in driving consensus in a large matrixed organization

Nice to have

  • Build-Your-Own Conjoint
  • Discrete Choice Conjoint
  • Gabor-Granger

What the JD emphasized

  • significant financial impact
  • material impact on the business
  • monetization strategy
  • influence the product roadmap
  • pricing
  • financial models
  • customer behavior
  • market penetration
  • company revenues
  • margin
  • product roadmap
  • customer needs
  • business model strategy
  • Enterprise / B2B software sales processes
  • pricing
  • deal structures
  • discounting methodologies
  • driving consensus