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Adobe Inc. is a global software company known for creative and multimedia software products including Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, and its cloud-based Creative Cloud and Document Cloud suites. Industry: Creative & Digital Experience Software
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The Director of Product Management, Adobe Lightroom Creative Pro is a senior individual-contributor role focused on defining the future of professional photography workflows. You will lead key product strategy workstreams for the Creative Pro audience across desktop, mobile, and web surfaces. Your daily responsibilities include translating real-world photographer needs into product principles, requirements, and roadmap priorities while identifying high-value opportunities in ingest, culling, editing, and delivery. You will partner with design, engineering, and advanced technology teams to integrate AI, automation, and machine learning into the Lightroom ecosystem. The role requires deep photography fluency to ensure technical innovations preserve creative control and trust. You will serve as a trusted voice for professional photographers, balancing innovation with performance, reliability, and transparency to solve complex production challenges.
Lead product strategy workstreams for the Creative Pro audience across desktop, mobile, and web surfaces.
Identify high-value opportunities in professional workflows including ingest, culling, editing, retouching, and delivery.
Translate photographer jobs to be done into clear product principles, requirements, priorities, and success measures.
Serve as the primary internal voice for professional photographers to ensure products meet real-world workflow needs.
Build relationships with photographers, educators, and industry experts to keep the product grounded in professional practice.
Partner with engineering and design teams to shape AI, automation, and new technologies into reliable user experiences.
Develop structured product recommendations by connecting customer insights, quality metrics, and competitive differentiation.
Drive clarity and alignment across cross-functional teams during strategic planning cycles and executive discussions.
What we're looking for
Proven experience as a senior product leader who has defined strategy and shipped high-impact products for creative, media, or workflow-intensive customers.
Deep understanding of professional photography workflows, including speed, quality, consistency, and high-volume production.
Strong product taste to evaluate whether an experience meets the bar for professional use.
Experience turning ambiguous customer needs and emerging technology into well-defined product strategy and shipped outcomes.
Experience partnering with research, design, engineering, and product marketing to deliver customer-facing products at scale.
Experience with AI, automation, machine learning, generative AI, or agentic experiences.
Executive-level storytelling and influence skills for senior individual-contributor roles.
Over 10 years spent working professionally as a photographer specializing in one or more genres (preferred).
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