Senior Program Manager

You’ll be joining Adobe on a contract opportunity, employed through Next Deavor.

Benefits You’ll Love

• Next Deavor offers health, vision and dental benefits for contract employees
• Paid sick leave eligibility is contingent on state of residence
• Opportunity to get your foot in the door at a well-established corporation, with potential for extended or permanent full-time employment

Become a Key Player as a Senior Program Manager

As a Senior Program Manager, you will lead change and employee engagement efforts that help the client adopt priority initiatives and sustain team morale. You will partner with senior leaders, people managers, and cross-functional teams to build repeatable change frameworks, enable leaders, and measure adoption. Work model:
Onsite in San Jose.

Here’s How You’ll Make an Impact on the Team

• Lead change strategy and execution for priority initiatives, including readiness, adoption, reinforcement, and measurement.
• Build and scale a simple, repeatable change framework leaders can use consistently.
• Strengthen executive sponsorship by aligning leaders on narrative, behaviors, and communication cadence.
• Create practical enablement materials (toolkits, talking points, FAQs, manager guides) to simplify local leadership of change.
• Develop and own communication planning for program rollouts, including drafting and orchestrating executive communications and all-hands content.
• Design and run engagement rhythms and lightweight recognition programs that improve morale and connection.
• Maintain ongoing sentiment measurement via surveys, listening sessions, and feedback channels; translate insights into recommendations and action plans.

Here’s What You’ll Need to Be Successful in This Role

• 8–12+ years in change management, internal communications, employee engagement, or related roles (or equivalent experience).
• Proven track record leading complex change programs with measurable adoption outcomes.
• Strong executive communications skills; clear writer and narrative builder.
• Experience designing engagement rituals/programs that strengthen morale and connection.
• Comfort operating in ambiguity, influencing without authority, and managing multiple work streams.
• Hands‑on operator able to build assets and run programs end‑to‑end.

Here’s What Else Might Help You Out

• Program Management certification.
• Prosci/ACMP or similar change management training or certification.
• Experience in fast‑paced, start‑up–like, matrixed environments with frequent organizational evolution.
• Experience with engagement measurement tools (pulse surveys, adoption metrics, communications analytics).

Pay Range

$39.44 - $49.30/hour

Ready to Make Your Mark?

This role may fill quickly. Submit your resume to be considered.