Hybrid Director, Product Management

at Adobe

• Job title: Director, Product Management
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: $172,400 - $334,500 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Cloud
• Location requirements: Hybrid, San Francisco, United States

About the role

• Director of Product Management leading typography innovation for Adobe's creative tools. Responsible for defining product strategy and mentoring a team in AI-driven design.

Responsibilities

• Define Typography’s Role in Adobe’s AI Strategy
• Establish a long-term vision for how typography evolves alongside generative workflows, including type creation, transformation, personalization, and intelligent layout.
• Define how AI can enhance typographic exploration and craft—without eroding authorship, intent, or typographic quality.
• Partner closely with leadership across multiple teams, including Adobe Research.
• Own the end-to-end product strategy for Adobe Fonts and typography capabilities across Creative Cloud applications.
• Align typography roadmaps with broader Creative Cloud AI initiatives.
• Find opportunities where typography can unlock differentiated Creative Cloud experiences.
• Lead, mentor, and scale a team of Product Managers.
• Empower PMs to partner deeply with Design, Engineering, Research, and Data Science to ship new innovation.
• Create a culture of strong product thinking, rapid learning, and high creative standards.
• Represent the voice of designers, typographers, and creative professionals in all product decisions.

Requirements

• 10+ years of product management experience, including leadership of multiple Product Managers.
• Proven success defining and accomplishing strategy for platform or ecosystem-scale products.
• Experience working across complex, matrixed organizations.
• Solid understanding of AI/ML concepts as applied to creative tools and workflows.
• Experience partnering with ML, data, or applied research teams to ship AI-powered products.
• Clear point of view on how generative AI should augment human creativity.
• Ability to connect typography, design systems, AI platforms, and business outcomes into a cohesive strategy.
• Comfort operating in ambiguity and shaping direction in rapidly evolving spaces.
• Strong product judgment and prioritization skills.
• Excellent communicator who can align executives, partners, and teams around a shared vision.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• 401(k) matching
• Flexible working hours
• Paid time off
• Professional development opportunities