Adobe
Senior Manager, Business Strategy & Operations for Digital Media
Adobe, San Jose, California, United States, 95199
Our Company
Changing the world through digital experiences is what Adobe’s all about. We give everyone—from emerging artists to global brands—everything they need to design and deliver exceptional digital experiences! We’re passionate about empowering people to create beautiful and powerful images, videos, and apps, and transform how companies interact with customers across every screen.
We’re on a mission to hire the very best and are committed to creating exceptional employee experiences where everyone is respected and has access to equal opportunity. We realize that new ideas can come from everywhere in the organization, and we know the next big idea could be yours!Our team
We are the central Business Strategy and Operations team reporting to the Digital Media President. Our scope is across all functions, all customer segments, and all product categories with the goal of building the business for the next decade and beyond. Goal of this team is to drive business priorities and enable execution. In this role, you will boost leadership team efficiency, enable smooth communication, drive strong operational practices and orchestrate both strategic and operational initiatives.The opportunity
We are looking for a strategic, collaborative, and hands-on individual to own and support complex and critical initiatives within the team. This role will operate in a dynamic environment to support the needs of the President and special projects across the company. You’ll be asked to bring clarity to ambiguous questions, move multiple business priorities forward at once, manage large stakeholders and bring high standard of work quality. Scope including, but not limited to:Strategic Planning:
Lead & support the development of comprehensive strategic & operating plans that align with the vision and long term objectives of Digital Media’s $14B+ business. Develop game plan, sequence, timeline, and communications. Partner closely with business, finance leadership, and extended operations teams to coordinate plan across groups. Navigate execution deliver on planning goals.Business Operations:
Help drive business operations related to organization-wide resource allocation review and ongoing headcount management. Collaborate with leaders, university team, and talent partners to support university hiring process. Partner with finance partners and business unit leaders to drive revenue planning, marketing budget & spend.Strategic Projects:
Work closely with department heads, executives, and other partners to build aligned plans on pivotal initiatives. Facilitate communication and coordination across teams to ensure perfect execution, and act as a strategic advisor to senior leadership, providing insights and recommendations to support decision-making.What you need to succeed
Strategic Thinker:
Tackle problems by zooming out to see the big picture, then zooming in to investigate into the details. Build a framework around it and then set it in motion.Leadership:
Ability to work with senior leaders. Build consensus among cross-functional teams and influence decision making within senior-level audiences. Champion relationships, set a roadmap and shepherd others to follow it.High standard for success:
Enable and foster a culture of high organizational performance by bringing sense of ownership in everything we do and setting consistently high quality work output.Thrive in ambiguity:
Flexible and agile. You deal with ambiguity as an opportunity to give shape and scope to problems.Analytical & Detail Oriented:
Comfortable working with and analyzing data sets. Able to dive into a data set and surface important insights. Detail oriented.Efficient:
Balance multiple priorities at once and prioritize. Strategically leverage resources & partners to multiply impact.Storytelling, Communications and Influence:
Ability to create executive-ready presentations and build partnerships with leaders and their teams across Adobe. Build & deliver crisp, clear and concise communications - written and verbal.Requirements
Bachelor degree. MBA or equivalent experience preferred.10+ years of experience, with 3-5 years post MBA experiences (ideally some management consulting, investment banking, corporate strategy, Chief of Staff, and/or internal strategy & business operations at a large company).
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Changing the world through digital experiences is what Adobe’s all about. We give everyone—from emerging artists to global brands—everything they need to design and deliver exceptional digital experiences! We’re passionate about empowering people to create beautiful and powerful images, videos, and apps, and transform how companies interact with customers across every screen.
We’re on a mission to hire the very best and are committed to creating exceptional employee experiences where everyone is respected and has access to equal opportunity. We realize that new ideas can come from everywhere in the organization, and we know the next big idea could be yours!Our team
We are the central Business Strategy and Operations team reporting to the Digital Media President. Our scope is across all functions, all customer segments, and all product categories with the goal of building the business for the next decade and beyond. Goal of this team is to drive business priorities and enable execution. In this role, you will boost leadership team efficiency, enable smooth communication, drive strong operational practices and orchestrate both strategic and operational initiatives.The opportunity
We are looking for a strategic, collaborative, and hands-on individual to own and support complex and critical initiatives within the team. This role will operate in a dynamic environment to support the needs of the President and special projects across the company. You’ll be asked to bring clarity to ambiguous questions, move multiple business priorities forward at once, manage large stakeholders and bring high standard of work quality. Scope including, but not limited to:Strategic Planning:
Lead & support the development of comprehensive strategic & operating plans that align with the vision and long term objectives of Digital Media’s $14B+ business. Develop game plan, sequence, timeline, and communications. Partner closely with business, finance leadership, and extended operations teams to coordinate plan across groups. Navigate execution deliver on planning goals.Business Operations:
Help drive business operations related to organization-wide resource allocation review and ongoing headcount management. Collaborate with leaders, university team, and talent partners to support university hiring process. Partner with finance partners and business unit leaders to drive revenue planning, marketing budget & spend.Strategic Projects:
Work closely with department heads, executives, and other partners to build aligned plans on pivotal initiatives. Facilitate communication and coordination across teams to ensure perfect execution, and act as a strategic advisor to senior leadership, providing insights and recommendations to support decision-making.What you need to succeed
Strategic Thinker:
Tackle problems by zooming out to see the big picture, then zooming in to investigate into the details. Build a framework around it and then set it in motion.Leadership:
Ability to work with senior leaders. Build consensus among cross-functional teams and influence decision making within senior-level audiences. Champion relationships, set a roadmap and shepherd others to follow it.High standard for success:
Enable and foster a culture of high organizational performance by bringing sense of ownership in everything we do and setting consistently high quality work output.Thrive in ambiguity:
Flexible and agile. You deal with ambiguity as an opportunity to give shape and scope to problems.Analytical & Detail Oriented:
Comfortable working with and analyzing data sets. Able to dive into a data set and surface important insights. Detail oriented.Efficient:
Balance multiple priorities at once and prioritize. Strategically leverage resources & partners to multiply impact.Storytelling, Communications and Influence:
Ability to create executive-ready presentations and build partnerships with leaders and their teams across Adobe. Build & deliver crisp, clear and concise communications - written and verbal.Requirements
Bachelor degree. MBA or equivalent experience preferred.10+ years of experience, with 3-5 years post MBA experiences (ideally some management consulting, investment banking, corporate strategy, Chief of Staff, and/or internal strategy & business operations at a large company).
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