Sr. Research Program Manager, Video/Audio AI Research Job at Adobe in San Franci

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!

Come join us to help invent the future of video creation! Generative AI is reducing the gap between idea and produced video. This will help creators from professional filmmakers to social video creators. Technical barriers will be lifted. Mundane tasks will be eliminated. People will have all the creative control they desire to tell their stories. This is the future we aim to create. As an established leader in video production, combined with next-generation cutting-edge research, Adobe is well-positioned to lead the next wave of innovation.

What You Will Do

1. Oversee, manage, and maintain engagements between Research, Product, Applied ML, and Design organizations, from strategy to tactical execution.
2. In collaboration with product and research leadership, drive the establishment of a joint innovation strategy, objectives, key results, and success metrics.
3. Manage a portfolio of research projects and their associated resource allocations, diving deeper into those requiring additional technical project management, so that the desired outcomes are achieved.
4. Implement and manage a cadence of Product/Research reviews, including strategic priorities reviews, and tactical execution reviews of progress against objectives.
5. Establish and influence the adoption of a research project portfolio prioritization framework and implement processes and tools to support it.
6. Establish feedback and metrics systems to assess the value of Research technologies to Product end users, and to assess the Product team satisfaction with the Research partnership.
7. Leverage in-depth technical knowledge and problem-solving skills to understand issues, identify their root causes, determine alternative solutions, evaluate them, make recommendations and execute on them.
8. Ensure the efficient running of the organization through ongoing improvements to all areas of the research org, from strategy and operations to customer management and communication.
9. Act as a point of contact between the Research org leader and employees/stakeholders, to review requests, and determine and assign the appropriate actions.

What You Will Need to Succeed

1. A bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in computer science or related technical field is desired.
2. Significant prior experience in customer-facing roles, project/program management, product management, and working in a technology or research organization.
3. Experience in expertly managing a portfolio of projects (10 or more).
4. Exceptional ability to work at both the strategic and tactical levels, and to deliver desired outcomes despite obstacles.
5. Experience defining, implementing, and optimally executing high-visibility initiatives in a dynamic environment.
6. Passion for problem solving and ability to think through problems creatively and systematically, and to identify and evaluate alternative solutions.
7. Ability to influence executives, senior leaders, and decision makers, and to gain alignment without direct authority, leveraging data and storytelling.
8. Outstanding interpersonal, verbal, and written communication and presentation skills, resulting in effective and timely information sharing.
9. Expert ability to translate highly technical jargon into language that a non-technical audience can understand and work with.
10. High degree of curiosity, flexibility, perseverance, teamwork, and self-motivation.
11. Expertise in a variety of productivity tools (e.g., Microsoft Excel, SharePoint, Wiki, Jira, etc).

Compensation and Benefits
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several U.S. geographic markets, and we pay differently based on those defined markets. The U.S. pay range for this position is $138,600 -- $258,700 annually. Pay within this range varies by work location and may also depend on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

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