Sr. Manager, Corporate Strategy

Adobe Adobe · Enterprise · San Jose, CA +1

This role is in Corporate Strategy at Adobe, focusing on developing product strategies, assessing technological trends like GenAI, analyzing the competitive landscape, and determining future strategic positioning. It involves driving cross-functional initiatives to accelerate long-term growth and supporting senior executives. The ideal candidate has a strong track record in strategy, intellectual curiosity, structured thinking, and analytical skills.

What you'd actually do

  1. developing product strategies
  2. assessing the impact of technological trends such as GenAI
  3. analyzing the competitive landscape
  4. determining Adobe’s future strategic positioning
  5. crafting a perspective on market adjacencies, including the strategies to pursue (e.g., build, buy, or partner)

Skills

Required

  • 6+ years of proven track record of leading transformational change with increasing levels of responsibility, ideally in management consulting, consumer internet or SaaS strategy
  • Intellectual curiosity, deep interest in the technology landscape, evolving trends and long-term horizon
  • Ability to build ‘outside-in’ POV on market opportunities and drive clear implications and recommendations
  • Structured thinker with ability to break down big, hairy problems into discrete elements
  • Hypothesis led problem solver with executive presence
  • Ability to influence senior cross-functional stakeholders to take action
  • Strong analytical skills, attention to detail, verbal and written communication skills
  • Experience leading teams and commitment to coaching / mentoring
  • Undergraduate and graduate degrees (MBA or equivalent experience preferred)

What the JD emphasized

  • leading transformational change
  • deep interest in the technology landscape, evolving trends and long-term horizon
  • Ability to build ‘outside-in’ POV on market opportunities and drive clear implications and recommendations
  • structured thinker with ability to break down big, hairy problems into discrete elements
  • hypothesis led problem solver with executive presence
  • Ability to influence senior cross-functional stakeholders to take action