Principal Engineering Program Manager -GenAI

The Document Cloud Generative AI Initiative is redefining how people interact with, combine, and exchange knowledge. This role centers on fostering smooth collaboration among teams to drive feature development from idea to implementation, aligning with business objectives and user requirements. They also adjust their approach to enable rapid iteration by promoting adaptability, incorporating feedback promptly, and shifting priorities to consistently deliver value in dynamic and evolving environments.

This is a chance for an experienced operational leader to make a significant contribution to Adobe's most prominent innovation projects!

Ideal candidate for this position:

• Embodies Adobe's "Own the Outcome" core value to deliver innovative Generative AI capabilities in one of Adobe's fastest growing businesses.
• Thrives at the center of the action by turning strategy into action.
• Is adept at building coalitions and can influence at all organizational levels.
• Integrates critical thinking, business comprehension, and technical awareness.
• Naturally brings order to chaos and is not hesitant to solve any problem.

What you'll do:

• Skilled in developing and implementing plans for large-scale AI programs, guiding them through the full lifecycle of feature development, including hypothesis validation, fine-tuning, evaluations, velocity improvements, and other critical stages such as requirements gathering, risk assessment, and resource allocation.
• Maintain a comprehensive, technical end-to-end understanding of the solution under development and its upstream and downstream dependencies and impacts.
• Maintain a deep, thorough insight into strategies involved in early feature market fit identification.
• Exceptional communication and presentation abilities tailored to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Keep contributing teams unblocked by rapidly moving to resolve any issues that have the potential to impact the overall schedule.
• Define and drive the processes the GenAI Initiative will use to coordinate, communicate, and resolve cross-team issues.
• Facilitate cross-team collaboration and coordination to enhance overall project outcomes.
• Demonstrated ability to multitask, adapt quickly to shifting priorities, and maintain attention to detail under pressure.

What you will need to succeed:

• 8+ years of Technical Program Management experience, including experience leading and mentoring other PGMs.
• A strong track record of influencing product strategy, slicing, and execution models for complex technical initiatives.
• Deep understanding of GenAI core technologies, including LLMs, embeddings, prompt orchestration, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), fine-tuning, evaluation frameworks, and inference infrastructure.
• Demonstrated success leading GenAI feature creation from zero-to-one while managing multiple concurrent work streams and features.
• Strong knowledge of Dev Ops and MLOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, monitoring, and service reliability for AI-powered systems.
• Proven success delivering large-scale programs across cross-functional and geographically distributed teams.
• Excellent influencing, communication, and collaboration skills, including the ability to guide and mentor senior PGMs and partner effectively with Product leadership.
• Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills with a focus on continuous improvement.

About Adobe

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